Senate Votes to Require Women to Register for the Draft

[Just_A_Guy]

2 hours ago, DoctorLemon said:

Dumbest move ever by Congress.

Do you know what happens to female POWs?  When men are caught in combat, they are usually imprisoned.  When women are caught, they are often raped by their captors (note this is a different phenomenon than rape by fellow servicemen discussed above).  There are some real horror stories from the first Iraqi war about this.

If women want to fight in the army voluntarily, fine, they know the risks and are accepting them of their own free will.  But forcing women to sign up for the selective service with this risk on the table against their will is completely and utterly wrong.  I am convinced Congress has not thought this one through.

If you look at ancient Assyrian war art and narratives--being a man on the losing end of combat was no picnic, either.

It seems to me that arguments against drafting women boil down to 1) force-readiness concerns; and 2) chivalry.

[Guest LiterateParakeet]

8 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:

(Tangent):  I hope you don't take the rape kit backlog as a sign of apathy.  

Thanks for this post JAG.  I did take it as a sign of apathy, but your explanation was very helpful and appreciated. 

[Guest LiterateParakeet]

14 hours ago, yjacket said:

The article was from last year, I don't think anything got passed to become law.

Oops, I hate it when I forget to check the date on an article, thanks for that.  Glad to see this hasn't gone anywhere. 

[Ironhold]

From what I understand of things, about half the people who were pushing for this were doing it to force the end of the draft, while the other half felt that since women now had equal rights they should face equal responsibilities in ensuring those rights. 

As one can imagine, the latter had a number of "feminists" screaming their lungs out. 

[Blackmarch]

On 4/15/2017 at 7:28 AM, LiterateParakeet said:

Just saw this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/us/politics/congress-women-military-draft.html

My first thought is that before they even consider this they need to deal with the issue of rape in the military.  I have plenty more thoughts as I'm not a fan of women in the military . . .

What are your thoughts?

reminds me of the end of people of the brother of jared.

[Blackmarch]

16 hours ago, LiterateParakeet said:

Oops, I hate it when I forget to check the date on an article, thanks for that.  Glad to see this hasn't gone anywhere. 

don't worry all bad ideas love to come back around.