Friday, April 08, 2011

ADF Academy and Marxist women

"Modern society" has changed the way women are viewed.
Once we had:
Chivalry
Which in a previous time meant:

Chapter 7 – The Embarkation From Greece
164 THE EMBARKATION FROM GREECE 25-26 Apr
The troops embarked here included the remaining nurses—forty Australian from the 2/5th Australian General Hospital and forty British from the 26th General Hospital—carrying only haversacks and a blanket each. 4
4 General Blamey had left instructions that all Australian nurses must be taken off. However, on the 25th, Brigadier D.T.M. Large, the British Director of Medical Services, was doubtful whether it would be safe to embark them and whether they could be spared. At length, at the urging of Major E. E. Dunlop (the Australian medical liaison officer), Colonel Rogers and Lieut-Commander P.C. Hutton (in charge of the naval party at "P" Beach), Large agreed, and they were hurried to Megara in trucks that night.

Chapter 36 – The Australian Army Nursing Service
THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE 443
The nurses themselves all wished to stay when they realised there was no hope of other hospital ships arriving to take away their patients, but on the 11th half the nurses from each hospital and all the physiotherapists were ordered to leave.

Now we have:

Tony Abbott calls for Australian Defence Force Academy scandal crackdown

Pollies split over defence sex scandal

While we can read:
Hal Draper Marx and Engels on Women’s Liberation (July 1970)
XI. Less important is the fact that socialist women have also had to be reminded that equality cuts two ways. The old society’s tradition of ‘chivalry’ and ‘gentlemanly behaviour’, which assumes the inferiority of women, dies hard. After his visit to America, Engels related in a letter:
‘Mother Wischnewetzky is very much hurt because I did not visit her in Long Branch instead of getting well ... She seems to be hurt by a breach of etiquette and lack of gallantry towards ladies. But I do not allow the little women’s-rights ladies to demand gallantry from us; if they want men’s rights, they should also let themselves be treated as men’.[57] - 57. Letter to Sorge, January 12, 1889, in ME: Letters to Americans (NY, Internatl. Pub., 1953), 209.

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