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Poll: Most Men Want Women To Sign Up For The Draft, Most Women Do Not
Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-02-12 18:46
Article here. Excerpt:
'A new Rasmussen Reports poll indicates 52 percent of women don’t believe they should be subjected to the draft, but 61 percent of male voters are definitely interested in seeing women sign up for Selective Service.
Rasmussen found 49 percent of likely voters in the U.S. believe women should have to sign up for Selective Service, though 44 percent disagree.
As expected, when polling numbers are broken down by gender, significant differences emerge. For starters, 61 percent of male voters think women should have to sign up for the draft, but only 38 percent of female voters think the same, and 52 percent oppose the measure outright.'
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"Well surprise, surrr-priise!"...
...as Gomer would say. No, not the least bit surprised. Remember, it's only equality if it benefits women!
Who'd a thunk it?
Women don't want to be drafted?
Already there's a bill to end the draft.
Men have been subject to the draft for the past 43 years. Nobody objected.
But talk about drafting women. Suddenly it's time to end the draft.
Special snowflakes can't be made to serve. They're just too darn special.
Too bad men aren't special snowflakes.
what if a guy
instead of getting a draft card, goes and gets a sex change? do he/she still have to register?
ya know, a LOT of guys went to Canada to avoid the draft during Vietnam. eventually they were all pardoned and got to come home if they wanted.
the more I think about it, Canada isn't that far away and what w/ the globe supposedly getting warmer...?
43 years? Closer to 50,000
Can't say for sure when the organized murder that is warfare started on an institutional level but I am pretty sure since tribes, etc., began fighting other groups in an organized way, men have been subject to coercive involvement in it. It doesn't matter exactly when it started, but it started a long time ago, and while men living in groups of humans involved in group-on-group levels of conflict haven't always had to "register" for something as formal as the draft, the fact that they would be coerced into fighting even in causes they objected to or else face death, abuse, or expulsion from the group is a very old phenomenon indeed. "As old as the hills," as they say, with or without a draft card.
What the "43 years" refers to
The "43 years" is a reference to how long it's been since draft registration was re-instated by Jimmy Carter. During that time, no one, except a few MRAs, has objected to it--until the idea of women registering was offered. Now, a lot of people argue we don't need the draft.
As I have often said here at
As I have often said here at MANN,anyone who enjoys their freedoms should be prepared to fight for and defend those freedoms.
Including women?
If not, then the idea is invalidated. If so, you have to support women being drafted if you support men being drafted.
I support no one being drafted.
The only . . .
. . . problem with that sentiment is that if the freedoms are worth defending, people will defend them out of their own free will.
Regardless, either you conscript both, or you conscript neither. I think the latter would be better. Tyranny isn't any more just when being equally applied. It's just a shame that eighteen year old men returning home missing limbs after being forced to fight in wars they didn't sign up for wasn't enough to convince society in itself to consider such a thing sooner.
Yes, I support women being
Yes, I support women being drafted and I have said so many times in all of my posts about the draft. I am also fine with getting rid of needing to sign up for the draft as long as if and when needed, people defend their country. Freedom isn't free!