So, all females are also going to be required to sign up at age 18 for selective service, right? All things being ‘equal’ of course .......
Oh, I think you and I know better than that. Get this: I had to sign up for the draft AFTER I served in the Army because my birthdate was 35 days after the cut-off.
Get real. This has nothing to do with equal treatment. It’s about women officers wanting to get promoted. If this was really about military effectiveness, then a single standard would be created for each job, based on the real world requirements of the job, that would then be applied equally without regard to gender. That’s not going to happen.
Women are honorably serving in many military jobs. That can’t be denied. If they can do the job and meet the standards without harming the unit’s effectiveness, then by all means let them serve. However, every military job doesn’t involve going back to separate billets every night.
BTW, I love how the current administration tells straight men to shut up if they happen to have a flaming gay roommate, but no way would they billet men and women together. Gay rights are all about supressing the rights of the majority. The same thing goes for women in combat. So what if the unit has to make special accomodations for women. So what if the men have to pick up the slack? The military will suck it up and hide the problems like it always does.
This is about feminists, many of whom have no intention of ever serving, who pride themselves on their equality. It’s about female officers getting their tickets punched so they can move up faster. It’s not about military effectiveness.
Too many feminists have apparently watched Starship Troopers. They see women showering and bunking with the men as true equals. They see women even kicking ass in hand-to-hand combat with men. Yeah. A Hollywood fantasy. That’s what we’re pursuing.
They will indeed have to sign up. The last federal court ruling on the draft registration was about why boys had to register but not women. Was it discriminatory?
The court ruled that since women could not by law be used in combat roles, they could not be subject to a draft designed to fill those very roles.
There is no legal justification whatsoever now that the draft registration can be restricted to boys.
The famale officer corps was willing to draft our daughters so they can be eligibile for higher command levels. Disgusting.
I will enthusiastically help my daughter evade it.