Blog Post #4 - Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

Question #1: Why is there aerial fighting and which war is it?

Question #2: How are the women prisoners?

Question #3: How could a restriction on child-bearing serve as a peace term?

            The biggest problem I have with this article is the difference in dialect.  Not only that, the author brought up too many different topics which made this story hard to follow and understand (for me at least).  The first paragraph made sense; it describes the scene of aerial warfare and thoughts about peace.  One of the things the author mentioned in the second paragraph is: “Arms are not given to Englishwomen either to fight the enemy or to defend herself.” (Woolf 1) I don’t really see how that is a bad thing considering that women probably don’t want to fight in the first place.  Another thing off about her statement is how women aren’t given weapons to defend themselves.  The entire article goes on about aerial warfare, not ground wars consisting of infantry, tanks, etc.  So it would be highly unlikely that a woman would need a firearm to defend herself from enemy aircraft.  There is one point the author does make that I partially agree with:     “There is no woman in the Cabinet; nor in any responsible post. All the idea-makers who are in a position to make ideas effective are men.” (Woolf 1) The only reason why I partially agree with it because there have been women in the Cabinet since this article was written.  One of the more recent ones I can think of is Hilary Clinton.  One thing I can agree with the author on is the fact that there still hasn’t been a woman president of the United States.  One of the parts that stood out most to me in the article was when the author started talking about limiting child bearing for world peace.  It just didn’t make any sense to me, especially when she said: “They would give them other openings for their creative power. That too must make part of our fight for freedom.” (Woolf 4) I am aware that child-bearing can be a seemingly daunting task especially considering all of the costs (not just financial) associated with it.  I still don’t see how not having children could make men more “creative”.  If anything, the opposite would be true because fathers can help their children solve problems by coming up with creative solutions.  When the author makes mention of how it helps their “fight to restore freedom”, she doesn’t really go into detail on how not having children gets them closer to winning this war she refers to.