Women of Britain say Go!

       Women of Britain, Say Go is an art piece made by the British government to shame men into going to war in World War I. It was created by men to affect other men. The women of England promised to not be in public with a man that is healthy enough to be in the military, which encouraged men to go fight for their country (women shaming men into war). This British Propaganda tried to appeal to young men to fight because the propaganda was expressing that women would reject the man and that all of the women wanted the men to go to war for them and their nation.

Women of Britain, Say Go is a propaganda picture of two women and a child standing outside watching the troops march past them. The women are making their husbands go into war and risk their lives rather than stay home and take care of the women in the house. These women are symbolizing patriotism here by making them fight for their country. These are very unrealistic women in this poster.  The normal women would want their man home always. These are very brave women. These women are unattainable because women don’t want their husbands to ever leave them, even for their country. These fake women show the men that their family wants them to go to war and fight instead of staying home. If they showed real women, it would discourage their husbands from leaving them. This disempowers women because it’s encouraging women to stay in the household to clean and produce babies instead of being free.