Ready? Because boys and girls are different. Need more? Girls don't belong in combat. We send boys into combat to protect our society's future, which includes its women front-and-center, since only women can have children. Girls don't belong in close-quarters environments with strange men. At all. Nor do mothers and wives, whose vocation consists in maintaining a physical and spiritual home stateside for their children and husband (whether he is home or in uniform), rather than in tottering around in some foreign desert trying to move an ammunition case.
Any politician who suggests that our women exist to be called up to become cannon fodder or torture-toys for America's enemies is trying to destroy the family itself, and make everyone the perpetual infant-slaves of the state.
This is not a small matter. It's an existential matter for a society. Nothing else counts—especially not . . . college scholarships, was that?—if your government is kidnapping the women from families. Guerrilla war or exile is actually preferable to obedience.
You are conflating two different things: registering with the Selective Services is not the same thing as being sent into combat. Not even close. I’m at a loss to understand why my daughter wasn’t required to so register while my sons must.
Surely you know the US eliminated the draft and created an all volunteer military? Happened in the 70s. Nonetheless, mandatory Selective Service registration continues to this day, but for men only.
Since then men have not been drafted nor have most volunteered to serve a day in the military, much less in combat. It’s all optional now. But registering for men isn’t. Failure to do so carries a fine of up to $250K.
Since women have pushed successfully to serve in combat with very few actually serving, then, like all men, all women should be required to register. That doesn’t mean women will be sent into combat any more than a man registering with SS will be either drafted or sent into combat.
For generations women served on the front lines as nurses and in support roles; that was and is considered quite honorable. Most of those women returned stateside to have and raise families after having done their patriotic duty.