Morley wrote:Some feminists are asking for this particular slice of 'equal treatment.' If I remember correctly, a bill to require women to register for the Selective Service was proposed this summer by a Democratic congresswoman. It was shot down by the GOP.
That may be the case, because both the Obama admin and Pentagon in 2016 backed expanding Selective Service to women. However, that's beside the point. I didn't see any signs after googling for 30 or so minutes asking for equality on this particular issue, which is surprising because it's been a pretty headline-worthy issue since 2015.
I saw lots of signs about their pussies, vaginas, and clitorises. Lots and lots of sign reeeeeeally focusing on their bits. Oh. And uteri, too.
Lol.
- Doc
Given the fact that we haven’t had a draft for about 40 years, it doesn’t surprise me that their weren’t signs demanding the right to send a postcard to the government. Feminists have worked to open up the opportunities for women who want to serve in the armed services.
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― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Res Ipsa wrote:Given the fact that we haven’t had a draft for about 40 years, it doesn’t surprise me that their weren’t signs demanding the right to send a postcard to the government. Feminists have worked to open up the opportunities for women who want to serve in the armed services.
Right. And we all know how feminists totally hate symbolic gestures. Regardless, if they demanded the same right to die for their country that men are forced to take by virtue of circumstance I think that'd go a long way toward establishing the idea they're really interested in equality.
- Doc
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Morley wrote:Some feminists are asking for this particular slice of 'equal treatment.' If I remember correctly, a bill to require women to register for the Selective Service was proposed this summer by a Democratic congresswoman. It was shot down by the GOP.
That may be the case, because both the Obama admin and Pentagon in 2016 backed expanding Selective Service to women. However, that's beside the point. I didn't see any signs after googling for 30 or so minutes asking for equality on this particular issue, which is surprising because it's been a pretty headline-worthy issue since 2015.
You've got me there: It is an eternal truth that if a person doesn't carry a sign in a march, saying they demand the right to the implementation of some arcane policy that is not really affecting their lives, they must be universally opposed to it. Legislative agenda be damned.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I didn't see any signs after googling for 30 or so minutes asking for equality on this particular issue, which is surprising because it's been a pretty headline-worthy issue since 2015.
I'll bet there are more than a few 'headline-worthy' issues that feminists care about that weren't on signs.
Res Ipsa wrote:Given the fact that we haven’t had a draft for about 40 years, it doesn’t surprise me that their weren’t signs demanding the right to send a postcard to the government. Feminists have worked to open up the opportunities for women who want to serve in the armed services.
Draft?
He was talking about selective service registration. Do males in this country have to register with selective service when they turn 18?
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Res Ipsa wrote:Given the fact that we haven’t had a draft for about 40 years, it doesn’t surprise me that their weren’t signs demanding the right to send a postcard to the government. Feminists have worked to open up the opportunities for women who want to serve in the armed services.
Right. And we all know how feminists totally hate symbolic gestures. Regardless, if they demanded the same right to die for their country that men are forced to take by virtue of circumstance I think that's go a long way toward establishing the idea they're really interested in equality.
- Doc
Sending a postcard to the government has not resulted in a single person risking his life for forty years. The way people get to risk their life is to volunteer. And feminists have supported opening up opportunities for women to do so in the same terms as men. But, then, men demanding that women’s movements comply with an infinite number of purity tests in order to be taken seriously is nothing new.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Jersey Girl wrote:That's because we want total equality.
But not.
Because, as the facts support, total equality is a step down for a woman. A woman must surrender certain pleasantries and benefits if she is to be truly "equal". Today's feminism is nothing more than a power grab by cuckolds and women who simply cannot fend off the corruption of having an unfettered access to more power.
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Res Ipsa wrote: But, then, men demanding that women’s movements comply with an infinite number of purity tests in order to be taken seriously is nothing new.
Res Ipsa wrote:Given the fact that we haven’t had a draft for about 40 years, it doesn’t surprise me that their weren’t signs demanding the right to send a postcard to the government. Feminists have worked to open up the opportunities for women who want to serve in the armed services.
Draft?
He was talking about selective service registration. Do males in this country have to register with selective service when they turn 18?
I can read, Jersey Girl. Yes, for fourty years men have been sending postcards to the government that women have not had to send. In the absence of a draft, that’s what Selective Service is.
Do you really not understand my point?
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Res Ipsa wrote:I can read, Jersey Girl. Yes, for fourty years men have been sending postcards to the government that women have not had to send. In the absence of a draft, that’s what Selective Service is.
Do you really not understand my point?
I understand that you dodged his point.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Regardless, if they demanded the same right to die for their country that men are forced to take by virtue of circumstance I think that'd go a long way toward establishing the idea they're really interested in equality.