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Revisiting the subject of women and the draft.

Dalrock
March 5, 2019

The recent court ruling on women and selective service caused me to revisit my 2015 post on the subject, The fantasy of drafting women:

We may see selective service changed to include women as well as men. We may even see a situation where women are drafted alongside of men.  What we won’t see, ever, is a situation where women have high or even significant pressure applied to motivate them to pass physical requirements if they don’t personally want to be there.

What this is about, and what this always has been about, is envy of men.  It is about eradicating the idea of masculine virtues, and more importantly, erasing all sentiment of gratitude for what the men in the military do.  To a feminist feeling gratitude to men is unbearable.  This is why every unit, especially elite forces and combat infantry, must include women.  When Seal Team Six took out Bin Ladin feminists were forced to bear the unbearable;  public officials expressed gratitude for the “men who risked their lives to accomplish the mission”, and feminists couldn’t chime in with “and women too!”

Never again.

Since the goal is to erase the concept of masculine virtues, the new bargain the introduction of women into combat represents isn’t to have women join equally or even seriously in the fighting and dying.  The new bargain is that men will continue to be the ones who fight and die, but they must not feel a sense of masculine pride in either doing this or having this obligation.  Registering women for selective service alongside men serves this goal, as does drafting women and letting those who don’t want to be there fail out.  The imagined downside for feminists is only a fantasy.

I still see this as mostly correct, but I would no longer be so adamant regarding never.  After seeing how the deep state responded to Trump’s election, and the cultural sea change we’ve experienced on transgender acceptance, I can now imagine a scenario where women would not only be drafted, but face pressure to meet the physical standards.  I still don’t see this as likely, but instead of being a 0% chance I would now put this as maybe a 5% or 10% chance.  The vast majority of feminists (which includes nearly all women) still think the way I described above, and conservatives still hold chivalrous views that would facilitate the option to opt out that nearly all feminists expect.  But given that lesbian feminists are now the conservatives when it comes to the culture war, and given that they appear to be losing, a truly radical scenario is at least conceivable now.

For men and women with daughters concerned about the possibility of a draft, my advice would be to consider the issue as it relates to the popular push to have daughters prove their athletic prowess.  A girl who went through school trying to prove she is like one of the guys will naturally feel much more pressure to prove herself physically if drafted, even if she doesn’t want to serve.  Also, instructors are going to pick up on which young women have “moxie”, and press them much harder to pass military physical fitness requirements than they will a young woman who has a truly traditional vibe.  Should we ever find ourselves drafting women, kick ass conservative gals are going to feel much more internal and external pressure to not wash out, and women with a quiet and gentle spirit are far more likely to be permitted to fail out.

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Title Revisiting the subject of women and the draft.
Author Dalrock
Date March 5, 2019 4:21 PM UTC (5 years ago)
Blog Dalrock
Archive Link https://theredarchive.com/blog/Dalrock/revisiting-the-subject-of-women-and-thedraft.6838
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