One of the things I found most interesting this week is the fact that in most of the posters that portray women, they are portrayed as people that care for others (nurses, cooks, mothers, etc.) and people that need protecting. Thus, the women are sending the men away in some of the posters to fight for them while they stay home and care for the house and family. In other posters, like this one, women are portrayed as nurses who care for the wounded men. Again, the women are the ones that are caring for others. In this poster, the language itself lends itself to thinking that women must be protected because instead of remembering the woman “behind the man behind the gun,” the poster asks the viewer to “remember the girl behind the man behind the gun.” This both places the woman as someone in need of protection and the woman as the one who is caring for the men. I find this interesting given that when men left their jobs to go to the war, the women had to take them so that 1) their families would have enough money to survive and 2) the men would have enough support at home from manufacturers and other businesses. In her article “‘The girl behind the man behind the gun': Women as Carers in Recruitment Posters of the First World War,” Angela Smith discusses another poster in which a woman is working as a munition worker. She is in the front of the poster, and the poster reads “On her their lives depend” (Smith 238). Again, instead of this poster showing that the woman is doing her part in the war and doing what is necessary, it puts the woman in the position of caring for the soldiers because she is the one that their lives depend on. Also, as Smith’s title suggests, the phrase “the girl behind the man behind the gun” was used on more posters than just this one. This phrase proliferates the idea that women are girls in need of protection and that they are the one’s solely caring for the men. This vision of women is propaganda because it makes the viewer feel better about the fact that women had to turn to working in factories and as munitions workers. Because the Victorian ideals of society have not yet lost their grip on society, these visions of women as needing protection and, as Angela Smith calls them, “carers,” makes society feel better about the work being done by women, as in "Remember the girl behind the man behind the gun."