Drafting Women Not Only Harms and Endangers Women, But Also Men and Society (Page 2)
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this is a retarded mytake. i have served 2 tours of afghan and have fought alongside women on the frontline. we had female medics attached to us and they fought just as hard and contributed to the section as well as any male soldier.
you obviously have never been on tour.
And... people can be different sizes, there's tons of really small guys.
Yeah, Israel has the 14th strongest military, while we have the 1st. They also have 8 million people, compared to 320 million for us. Given that we have a 40:1 population ratio in our favor, it is absolutely ridiculous to measure their absolute military strength in direct comparison to ours.
We also spend a shit-ton of money on a military
@FallOutBoy2001 Yes, which further degrades the idea that our soldiers are the best. I'd wager that the average Israeli soldier has access to less equipment but is better trained.
Allright allright, just to keep ones like you away from it, they're gonna put an I. Q. test with a deadline of 80. Satisfied?
This is so idiotic. I mean so utterly idiotic, I think some women should be trained to detect and kill women just like you. For the sake of humanity and safety of men of course.
Many men are not fit for combat anyway, so what? Should we deny men as well? That's why it's called a draft.
I've spoken about this a lot. It's unfortunate that most people don't see the reality of this. Many countries have tried women in combat roles Germany, and Russia both did during WW II with horrible results, the Israelis tried co-ed combat troupes and found them to be problematic. Ultimately there is no reason to force women into service, if the US needs troupes that badly then we have already lost.
if we have to resort to a draft we are most likely in trouble, but that's somewhat irrelevant to the hypothetical question. as it stands today it would take an absolutely epic war to force selective services to re-institute the draft
women shouldn't be drafted because they are not physically able to fill in the role of a man in that situation. Try asking a woman to lift something heavy when there is a stronger, more able man there beside her. I don't care about having equality that's fine, but you still have to understand the fine line between what makes a man a man and a woman a woman. If you ever think women will be the same as men.. I hate to pop your feminist bubble, but it's not going to happen.
Draft them anyways
Maybe then they'll stop saying and trying to be the same as men, and feminists can stop fighting for superiority
You're OK with more men dying, and losing our entire country, just to prove a point to kids who say stupid things?
Most women aren't trying to be the same as men.
Ew and the amount of rape that happens to women in the military... a bunch of men who are angry sweaty and horny and risking their lives, taking lives, I dont understand what women are thinking when they join the military. Men dont have respect and in that environment are desperate and fucked up
As long as I am not personally drafted, I don't really care. If strength is the big issue then weak scrawny men shouldn't be drafted either.
It harms male civilians too, though. Check the part of the article with the image of a man punching another man.
Yikes,😱
well I believe the army does reject you if they think you're not fit enough. For example if you have diabetes you won't ever be drafted.
It's just that drafts are mostly a lottery and you can't tell from your id if you're weak or not.
And I think the difference as well is that men can be made stronger much more than women
@nalaa
What about bad vision?
it depends. I think it only excludes from certain positions, such as pilots
@nalaa
Damn 😠
why? Is that what you wanted to do?
@nalaa
No, I was kinda hoping it would be something that could exclude me from other combat roles too. I am not surprised though.
I like the progression of male thought in terms of women joining the battlefront/combat roles.
"You are going to cause problems and kill us, stopping many of us getting home"
To 2016
"eh fuck it were gonna die anyways" or "yeah go play war, see if you love it."
No one should be drafted, period. Send in drones, stop cooperating with terrorist nations, stop trading with them.
I love how the "equality brigade" doesn't shut up when it comes to things they want, but then turn all "victim" when they are forced to partake in losing something because of "equality".
You can't have just the good and not the bad, and adding women to the draft was mainly just proving that point. It was the first time feminist shot themselves in the foot and they have been back pedaling ever since.
I honestly think feminism is going entirely too far. It's one thing for us to be allowed to work and vote, but now women are fighting for things that simply aren't necessary and it's blurring the lines between male and female.
I don't think it was men that came up with this idea to begin with, so I am not sure why you are talking to men about this. You should talk to feminists about this issue. I for one don't agree with most of what feminists say either way.
I feel that if a girl wants to go combat arms she needs to be at a very high physical level of strength because there are some guys that cannot even hang. Don't drop the standards, just take the ones that can continuously pass set standards.
That's why women should revoke all rights that men have only because they can be drafted. Fair is fair after all. Stop being a sexist hypocrite and own up to your bigotry.
Pop a baby out of yourself if you demand pure "equality"
Agreed with tumemanques. By your logic, then men should lose their righta over their children, because women only get them because of giving birth
And men help tou achieve pregnancy. Without us you cannot have children unless you do artificial pregnancy. Women in other countries behave like women while women in the US act like men.
@longbeach225 "without women first forming their brains and bodies inside themselves & giving birth to them, men wouldn't be able to achieve anything. Therefore women deserve equal credit for all men's accomplishments"
BY your logic
@longbeach225 and no most women don't act like men
Oh yes lot of women act like men which is why I'm looking for lover overseas where women still kept their femininity.
@longbeach225 how do they act like men?
@mistixs well one, men don't have rights over their children so that's a moronic argument to begin with, secondly they are as much his children as hers, third her rights to her children are protected under law (his are not) and have nothing to do with getting drafted. Men got the right to vote because they where drafted. Its literaly the only reason men get to vote. If you do not sign up for selective services you do not get to vote as a man. The same thing does not apply to women who get the right simply by existing. Ergo if a woman wants true equality that requires her to stop being a hypocrite (and sexist (not that that word means anything unless its directed towards a man)) and be equal in both priviledge and responsibility or revoke your priviledge so that you can have no responsibility. Again I don't really care which but don't try to do both because that just shows how full of shit (and solipsistic) you really are.
@TuMeManques Pay for every date, slave away at a job giving the fruits of your life time of labor over to some one else, be forced to fight and die, lose all reproductive rights, get cancer and most every other disease at significantly higher rates, get abandoned by society (i. e. homeless 70% of which are men, 75% of suicide victims are male) get beaten then arrested for being beaten (women are more likely to be perpetrators of domestic violence and thanks to the current laws the man will still be arrested for it) get your children taken from you for no other reason then because you have a penis, have all of your issues completely ignored then get sent off to war to die then talk to me about "equality". Get your sexist solipsistic head out of your ass and start acting like a human being. You want equality here it is its yours for the taking so why are you trying to argue your way out of equality now? Either we recognize the difference in their entirety or we pretend were equals.
@longbeach225 Sadly I would have to agree with her women don't act like men, men take responsibility for their actions women don't. Also men tend to be considerably less narcissistic. Though I will admit women do pretend to act like men ( a very weird unrealistic character of men).
Bitter much?
@TuMeManques Oh noes! Petty insults! Oh how will I ever live with myself? Not bitter just don't tolerate bullshit to well you know? When women say they want to have respect and rights and everything that men have but they feel they are to good to actually earn it, but then still have the audacity to talk about equality as if they where interested in it and a proponent of it, that kind of rankles me some yes. Unchecked sexism (bigotry in general really) hypocrisy and self righteous bullshit just happens to be a pet peeve of mine, and then when you add obfuscation of the truth? Well that does get me a bit irritable.
Drafting anyone against their will is dangerous, but women are perfectly capable of being soldiers, since the time of the Amazons.
US military studies are patriarchal, misogynistic and chauvinistic, but it doesn't surprise me, most of the Yanks are religious bigots.
Why not just draft both men and women? If a woman doesn't meet the physical standards, don't enlist her. It's that simple.
Personally I'd like to abolish the draft altogether, it's basically slavery.
I think more people should just opt out of the draft, there's something you can sign to do that. In exchange you have to opt out of the military for life though.
Men aren't allowed to vote if they don't sign up for the draft. It's kind of a big deal. Plus they aren't opting out of just military service, they wouldn't be allowed civilian benefits, like student aid. They can't apply for federal jobs, like the postal service. And they aren't recognized as citizens, and it's actually illegal for them not to sign up... Like, it's a $250,000 fine and/or five years in prison.
@TiffyPuff I think you can still vote if you opt out. I don't know what the exact form is but I found a wiki about it: https://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-a-Draft (Method 2 for USA)
Also, since student aid can be a rip off, that I don't know anyone who has a gov job because it's so hard to get hired in them especially, I don't see those 2 as bad. But the wikihow has more details... it's not illegal to opt out for sure, and you'd still be a citizen I think. Don't know too much about it, but there are other sites that talk about this.
It is illegal to opt out. It's classed as a felony.
Here's the information directly from the U. S. Government SS website:
www.sss.gov/.../Benefits-and-Penalties
As for voting, felons can't vote, although there are processes in place in some states to try to get that right reinstated.
So the legislation regarding doesn't explicitly say a man can't vote. But since it's a felony not to register as a male, it is effectively one of the consequences.
@TiffyPuff there's a document you can sign, that's legal and offered to people. If you sign, well here's this from Method 2:
Conscientious objectors are excused from military service in many countries. In the US, they not only include members of pacifist churches like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Quakers, Mennonites, and Amish but also anyone who claims, and can prove, to have a “firm, fixed and sincere objection to participation in war in any form or the bearing of arms, by reason of religious training and belief.” There are also two distinct classes: Class 1-O and Class 1-A-O. The first is for people who sincerely object to any participation in war whatsoever. The second group object to participation in war as combatants, but not to participation in a non-combatant role.
So on top of that, apparently you can do this even if you've already taken a military oath! The other methods talk about different countries.
Conscientious Objectors still have to sign up for the draft or it's a felony. The only time they can then seek to be called Conscientious Objectors is when their SS number is called and they've actually been drafted. That's covered on US Government website.
@TiffyPuff I didn't see Conscientious objector on the page you linked. But even they say on your page that the guy can
'or provides Selective Service with evidence that he is exempt from the registration requirement,'
Look through the FAQ and you're brought to this page:
https://www.sss.gov/consobj
Exemptions from registration are basically limited to people with severe mental/physical disabilities
@TiffyPuff Yeah, you do still have to register! In that case it's even more simple. Just fail the physical part then. I've heard stories of guys doing that to avoid war.
Hmm. Or even medical issues too, I think there's lots of leeway in what you can fake from what I've heard.
You're good @ debating TiffyPuff!
Aww, thanks :)
Just seems to me that sometimes there's confusion about this, so I looked it up one time cuz I have brothers, and I was surprised how harsh the penalties and requirements are. Like, basically if you're male that can breathe, you have to register. But failing physicals and conscientious objecting don't kick in until you actually get called to serve
In any case, it's good we haven't had a draft since Vietnam, and hopefully we won't need one again. But it kinda sucks to be a guy with those laws.
@TiffyPuff Yeah, I think we were on different subjects but at least we both know about so many details. I don't think a draft will happen again either.
There is only 1 good reason why women shouldn't be drafted.
War veterans deserve to be welcomed home by a harem.
Rekt.
If a woman reaches the standards then she should be allowed to fight. You might be happy making sandwiches in th kitchen and pushing out babies, but some other women are not. If they are capable of doing their job, then why stop them?