kerrichinchilla
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Question what do you think of the draft being implemented for women in the US.
Why does it always come to this question. Like it's some noble gotcha.
1/ who banned women from being drafted? Oh that's right men
2/ who is it that banned women from fighting in wars?.....oh yeah men.
3/ the draft only exists in very few countries like Israel, who by the way draft women and men. If countries don't usually it's men who ban women
4/ history shows women wanted to fight. The American civil war and WW1 both have famous examples of cross dressing women who pretended to be men to fight. The most famous is Mulan. It's not that women didn't want to fight they were banned and cross dressing women shows that women wanted to and did
5/ during conflict women didn't just sit at home drinking tea, knitting and playing cards. In early wars they followed their men. Cooking cleaning and doing general chores for the companies they followed. Later on they volunteered as nurses working on the front line being killed themselves.
Then there are spies. Many women died and still do spying.
Both world wars saw women taking over the roles men left, driving buses/trans, farming, manufacturing, including ammo, guns, uniforms, food, planes and tanks. Women delivered those planes flying them in enemy territory without weapons to protect themselves. On top of this they cared for children and the elderly, did all their normal duties and what did they get for it abuse, ignored, told to get lost after the war, wages that didn't match the men who did the same job. They were still nurses, doctors and other roles in the front line. Even the queen of England was a mechanic during the war.
And last but not least women are the victims of war. They are raped, abused and murdered. Treated like spoils of war. One story that will always stand out to me. Is the one of a young 13 in Berlin who was being treated by an American nurse. The nurse spent 15 hours taking pieces of glass out of the young girls vagina and cervix. Russians had raped her then thrust a glass bottle inside her so hard it shattered. This is just one story of billions through out history.
So yeah men were drafted but blame men for that. The rule that men had to be drafted was created before women could even vote.