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Skanda_sl said:

SENATE: WOMEN MUST REGISTER FOR THE DRAFT

New defense bill passes the senate with a veto proof majority and introduces the draft for women in it. This could make for some good salt starting withthis one.

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3 interesting takeaways from that article:

Some feminists are hailing it as a boon toward their cause, calling America?s history of the all-male draft discriminatory and the addition of women to selective service a huge leap for equality.

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Firstly, an open acknowledgement that some feminists DO consider this a good thing, demonstrating both that not all feminists think alike and that some agree completely when men try to use "But what about the draft?" as a "Gotcha" to put feminists in their place. Of course, this is not a surprise to anyone who readthis articleI've linked a few times.

When you are not included in something that no one wants to do ? in this case, going off to war ? it?s not discrimination; it?s a privilege.

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See that? She's actually checking her privilege. For all the talk about how "check your privilege" is only used to silence white males, here's an example where that is most definitely not the case.

Some say women should give up that privilege in the name of equality between men and women. But here?s the thing about equality: Men and women are not equal.

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And an open acknowledgement that men and women are NOT equal, at least not on a physical level. Interestingly, the fact that women aren't as strong or able-bodied as men sounds very much like the type of argument we'd see here defending that same point of view (hasn't this come up when talking about female firefighters?).



If anything, that article seems very much like what many here seem to think a feminist should think.