Preserving The Mother Choice: Why You Should Oppose A Female Draft

thrway_1000 · 2016-06-29T02:13:15+00:00

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HotDealsInTexas · 2016-06-29T04:46:45+00:00

I’m a feminist, a law professor, a Mormon, and a mother.

First of all... a Mormon Feminist? Really? Aren't the tenets of mormonism in direct opposition to the idea of women's rights? And they actually take those tenets seriously.

Also, lol, "as a mother."

And in each of these capacities, I am advocating opposition to the extension of the military draft to women. Last week the Senate voted overwhelmingly in support of extending selective service registration to women. The bill is now in congressional committee before being sent to the president.

I am a grateful beneficiary of the feminist movement. Because of feminism, I was able to become a lawyer and practice at prestigious firms in New York City and Indianapolis. Feminism declared that women are not prisoners forced to stay at home and to stay out of the centers of economic and political power—the core ideals of feminism being choice and empowerment. I embrace this declaration and join in advocating the empowerment of women.

So basically you want all the benefits men get with none of the downsides. As usual.

Which leads to my objection to extending the draft to women. Isn’t this just a matter of equality? As a law professor, I understand the importance of equal obligations in a system of justice. If men can be drafted, shouldn’t women also be subject to a potential draft? I remain unconvinced.

Several major religious traditions hold that a woman’s greatest role is raising her children at home. And many women sincerely believe as much—without cowering to husbands or religious leaders. Other women want to join the military and agree to leave children and/or opportunities for child-bearing and child-rearing behind while they are gone. I’m happy they can make that choice. But it is a different matter to create a law that can force any woman to give up, at the government’s beck and call, getting pregnant, having a child, breastfeeding her baby, raising her preschoolers, being home when her kids get out of school each day, or even preparing to start a family and finding a partner? Keep in mind that women have a relatively short window of healthy fertility and childbearing.

Right, but it's perfectly okay for a MAN to be torn away from his family and sent overseas to be shot at when the government needs bullet sponges.

Have we considered the psychological effects on women who are drafted against their will—especially taken from their children (and opportunities to have children) when they sincerely believe it is their life mission to build a family?

Even for women who have not yet had children, what are the opportunity costs to them of being able to have and raise a family if we draft them to war in their prime years for marriage and childbearing?

What are the opportunity costs to men if they FUCKING DIE at 20 years old because of being drafted to war?

And the injuries to conscripted women are likely to be far more severe than they have been on men. Women and men simply do not stand on an equal playing field—physically or psychologically—when it comes to force and violence. It’s a biological fact. As noted in Psychology Today, there exists “a clear distinction between male and female sexes regarding their predisposition to violence.” This is not due to “the imprinting of social roles” but is “first of all, due to genetic factors.” Indeed:

BIOTROOFS

On the whole, women are less able to physically and psychologically respond to and reciprocate violence from men. Why would that be less true in combat? That’s why we have women who flee to shelters across the US.

No, actually the reason is because just as many men are subject to violence, but there are no shelters for them to flee too.

So to everyone who cares about choice, about sincerely-held religious beliefs, about motherhood and stable families, about healthy babies, about violence against women, please stand against the extension of the draft to women. Feminists, if you believe in choice, fight for your sisters who believe their empowerment is found in being at home with their children. Empower them to keep that choice—even as other women have become empowered to reject it.

But fuck men, who gives a shit if an entire generation of young men is slaughtered against their will, since it only takes a few alpha males to impregnate all the women, right? /s

Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is what the Empathy Gap looks like.

mrstickman · 2016-06-29T12:07:40+00:00

This article is way more fun if you change the word "women" to "women (and not men)".

I embrace this declaration and join in advocating the empowerment of women (and not men).

We must continue to allow women (and not men) to make that choice.

So to everyone who cares... about violence against women (and not men), please stand against the extension of the draft to women.

GenderNeutralLanguag · 2016-06-29T07:52:21+00:00

If a woman really is convinced that her place is the one defined for her by the church, then we should allow that. She shouldn't be subject to the draft, she should also never be allowed to enter any paid employment or education of any kind. If we shouldn't take her away from her kids to serve the needs of the nations, she shouldn't be allowed to leave her kids for her own selfish desires.

Hypersapien · 2016-06-29T13:35:56+00:00

I am opposed to a female draft.

I am equally opposed to a male draft.

I'd rather we have neither, but if we're going to have one, we need to have both.

fengpi · 2016-06-29T08:35:14+00:00

Hm, is this the whole "women already are in combat because some chick in Iraq stepped on a mine" thing? I don't bother reading theese articles any more.

Title	Preserving The Mother Choice: Why You Should Oppose A Female Draft
Author	Aprilisse
Upvotes	28
Comments	21
Date	June 29, 2016 1:26 AM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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