Child soldier or boy soldier?

Medical-Reindeer-882 · 2026-07-13T23:12:26+00:00

Its not only soldiers. Its everytime when boys are being in a very bad condition they are referred to as children but when it's a girl they say it is a girl everytime.

brainquantum · 2026-07-13T22:12:18+00:00

Well, from a historical point of view, it's clear that in these desperate situations, it was the boys/adolescents who paid the price and were sent to fight. This was the case for Germany in both World Wars and, for example, during the Napoleonic era in France.

At the end of 1813, after the disastrous Russian campaign, the Grande Armée was decimated. Napoleon needed men to defend French territory from an imminent invasion. It was the Empress Regent Marie-Louise of Austria who signed the decree ordering the early conscription of new classes. To fill the gap in the number of soldiers of fighting age, the recruitment criteria were drastically lowered.

Although the law theoretically set the limit at 18, nicknamed "Marie-Antoinettes," some of these boys were only 14 to 16 years old, and these teenagers were thrown into battle with the utmost urgency. Some had only two weeks of military training.

Returning to the modern era, it's clear we should be talking about boy soldiers, but now there are also girls forcibly enlisted, as you mentioned with the figure of 12%. So, given the modern "DEI" constraint, they will force everyone to use the term "child soldier" to avoid "discrimination" and be more inclusive I guess. At this rate, within 10 years they will make sure that "boy soldier" will be erased from history textbook in high school and everything will be done to hide the terrible destiny of young men and boys in war time.

It's worth noting that at the same time, they will continue to claim that only "girls and women" are the primary victims of war.

Ultimately, then, young men/boys are doubly erased from war time history: erased because they want them to be ignored as victims and erased a second because they want to hide the fact that young men/teenager/boys are the ones targeted when conscription is on the table.

rabel111 · 2026-07-14T00:03:44+00:00

"In the final days of the war, the Germans preferred to send 12-year-old boys to the front rather than healthy and strong women. This is evident in every regime that is backed into a corner and losing a war. They would sooner send their children of the inferior sex into combat than any woman!"

And the German women let them do it. Its the same now. Feminists scream for equality, but not in the front line battle of metal and flesh. Cowards.

Big_Psychology_3 · 2026-07-13T20:23:37+00:00

Good point!

Suspicious_Form6653 · 2026-07-13T20:34:53+00:00

I'm curious, where did you learn that nazi Germany sent 12 year old boys to the meat grinder ? I want to know.

SidewaysGiraffe · 2026-07-14T18:25:50+00:00

A noble thought, but calling them "boy soldiers" is just going to destroy whatever remaining sympathy they get.

senior_raposo · 2026-07-15T15:20:37+00:00

It was always about reproductive value of cattle for the political class, never forget about that.

Future-Stretch-401 · 2026-07-13T23:30:59+00:00

You failed to mention that when the Russians got desperate in WW2 they enrolled 800000 women. So apparently not “every regime”. Vietnam, Eritrea, Yugoslavia to name some others.

Title	Child soldier or boy soldier?
Author	Szymon96803
Upvotes	86
Comments	11
Date	July 13, 2026 5:20 PM UTC (1 week ago)
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