Re: Should women register for the draft when they turn 18?

[PhitanPhillieKid]

True feminism would be a protest for the draft. Feminism now is about exceptions to the rules and special treatment for women not equality.

[Nonamearisto]

If a woman soldier was to be captured, she would be raped so terribly...

[lordofpwnage]

Men are also subjected to horrors as prisoners of war...and male soldiers can be raped too.

[Nonamearisto]

But the public reaction is not as bad... and male soldier are MUCH less likely to be raped... and the resulting damage, while very bad, is still less than what would happen to a woman (psychologically, at least.) Ever heard of the "missing white woman syndrome?"

[lordofpwnage]

So public reaction is a reason we shouldn't try and employ rightful laws?

Back during the slave days, public reaction was the reason slavery wasn't abolished sooner. Public reaction was the reason it took so long for women to get the vote. Sure it'll hold us back, but we shouldn't give up because of it.

As for the resulting damage...ever heard of the Bataan Death March? Let me quote wikipedia in my next comment:

[lordofpwnage]

"Beheadings, cut throats and being casually shot were the more common and merciful actions — compared to bayonet stabbings, rapes, guttings (disembowelments), numerous rifle butt beatings and a deliberate refusal to allow the prisoners food or water while keeping them continually marching for nearly a week (for the slowest survivors) in tropical heat."

Are you sure rape is worse? I'd disagree.

[crakcrak25]

Right now the military will draft anybody they can. I don't think they need to start a draft for women. It seem like women will go into the military on their own if they feel like it.

[lordofpwnage]

Why shouldn't the same hold true for men?

[KamikazeKoscki]

Congress does not have a 14 percent approval rating because people are so proud of how they are standing up to the Cheney crime syndicate.

[KamikazeKoscki]

There is no need for US soldiers to fight in the Middle-East to secure oil because scientists have already discovered an unlimited supply of Free-Energy many years ago. The Serbian Scientist Tesla discovered what is now known as "Zero-Point Energy" in the 1920s but the oil industry suppressed it. And The Russians carried on the research and perfected it with technology now known as "Scalar Wave Technology" and this technology is a two-edged sword

[KamikazeKoscki]

Cheney determined to strike in US with WMD this summer; only impeachment and removal, or a general strike, can stop him

[KamikazeKoscki]

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