Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, an actual news article based on whether or not Women should be eligible for a military draft. Success of this would mean the first area of true gender equality - but as the article says, "US women may soon achieve a level of equality not everyone wants".

Lasttoflinch · 2021-06-08T12:37:31+00:00

"Feminism is life affirming. Women and children suffer disproportionately through war around the globe. One's equality shouldn't be based on acquiescence, submission to the military."

Can't suffer if one's dead.

LiberalCombatVet · 2021-06-08T14:11:19+00:00

Hey they want equality right? Welcome to what real equality looks like.

OperativeTracer · 2021-06-08T15:10:00+00:00

Women have proven themselves in combat before. There was evidence of female Viking Warriors, Russian women were combat pilots, tank crews, and snipers and marksman. Vietnamese women fought against the US in the NVA and Vietcong. And even Chinese women fought during their Taipang rebellion.

The arguments against women in combat can be easily answered. So let's go through some:

1: Women can't handle it: If that were true, examples such as the above wouldn't exist.

2: Women are physically weaker: On average this is true. However, we aren't fighting using spears and swords anymore. Physical strength isn't as important as it was during the Medieval Ages. A women using a gun is just as deadly as a man with a gun.

3: I don't want to bet my life on a woman pulling my 200 pound ass: And yet, women have been serving as military combat medics for a long time, but I don't see people bring that up.

I suspect that people don't want women in combat because they are "incapable", but rather because we as a society don't like the idea that women can kill.

Lion_amongst_gods · 2021-06-09T03:25:03+00:00

We want equality! But not that kind of equality...

ThisIsUrIAmUr · 2021-06-09T05:10:15+00:00

"level of equality not everyone wants" -- rofl nobody wants equality. They want what's best for their own interests.

AdikaHUN0328 · 2021-06-08T09:00:21+00:00

Women are not as effective soilders as men. Wars have to be won and they are not equality friendly.

HPUnicorn · 2021-06-09T14:05:42+00:00

I read that supreme court decision in 1981 that rejected women for the draft because (paraphrasing) "They aren't eligible for all roles"

In My Legal Expert Opinion that was nothing more than "We don't want women to be required to register for the draft so we have to find an excuse, please find us one dear law clerks"

screamingolive · 2021-06-09T18:26:32+00:00

i’m still so lost on how that policy hasn’t changed.

CataclystCloud · 2021-06-12T20:31:14+00:00

"If feminists got true equality they would fucking hate it" -Some Greek or Asian philosopher or something fuck if I know I failed history

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