http://youtu.be/PJ4J4jKqNCo

No-one bothers to ask what conscription-age boys think about the gendered slaughter of WW1.

So we did.

Here are the thoughts of Josh O'Brien, a 17-year-old boy who during the First World War, would have faced the prospect of conscription and being sent to the trenches.

What do you think? Why doesn't our culture and media discuss the slaughter of WW1 in terms of being a gender issue for men?

To watch more of Josh's videos, check out his YouTube channel here.

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