I AGREE!!!
I just wish men and women would stop this ridiculous arguement about who is better at what and why etc etc etc..
men are not women and women are not men...
we have differant gender roles....
why can't we just accept that and be happy for the differance...
This isn't about that: This is about the stupidity of pretending that we aren't different.
Agreed. But who is the "we" here? Men were content to have the military (and the draft) be all-male. There were no men demanding that women be part of the military. We accepted that women were different and had no desire to have them serve in the military - which we all understood to be a "man's job."
But the women wouldn't have any of this. They called men like us sexist and worse. How dare we keep them from serving in the military alongside the men? They have fought tooth and nail for over 30 years now to integrate women into the military. They used their votes to support political candidates who would get this done. Well, women are now in the military and we men must learn to deal with it. Most of us are fine with it. Heck, if that's what they want, why they're citizens just like we are. Don't they have a right to play a role in our military, if that is what they want? And we have to assume that women as a whole want this because there were no women out there protesting against the women's liberation movement. Why they all seemed to be for it. So here we are today, with an integrated military in which females play a very valuable role.
Hey, it would have been fine by me to not have them in the military at all. But since they are in the military, I do expect them to be held to the same standards as the men. If men must register for the draft, I think the women must be compelled to register for the draft as well. If women have a problem with this, then why weren't they speaking up 30 years ago when the feminists were calling us sexist pigs for wanting to keep the military an all-male institution?