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You and I agree on a lot. Especially about putting women in close quarters with men on a Navy vessel (or anywhere). You might have heard how the commander of a battle group headed for the Persian Gulf was relieved of command for an improper relationship with a junior officer (female). I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg.

How many commanders would have been relieved of duty in WW2 had conditions been the same then as they are today? Imagine how different the outcome of the war might have been if, say, Eisenhower and McArthur were relieved of command for improper relationships with women in their command? (Just hypothetical, not suggesting that Eisenhower and McArthur would have put themselves in that situation).

I think you and I are trying to achieve the same objective but I'm coming at this thing from a different angle then you are. I feel that if we "call the bluff" of the feminists and start requiring women to register for the draft as men, that they will start backing off a little and they might not be so quick to keep pushing the envelope in the future. It is my opinion that if we continue to reassure them (the feminists) that there never will be any call to draft women, that they will continue to push for women to assume ever increasing roles, even combat roles. Right now, the feminists are fighting this on principle and for political gain as they are feeling confident that nobody will ever call them on it. But I am telling them to put up or shut up.

In regards to political games with the feminists....I don't want to risk the lives of American femininity, just to call the (often irrational) feminists' bluff.

I believe a lot of activist feminists--being personally older than draft age, AND thinking if women were included in selective service, we'd be a LOT less likely to ever use it again---would be more than happy to have young women required to sign up with the selective service.

This is just a sign of an increasing moral erosion--of blurring the line between men and women.

I feel that if we "call the bluff" of the feminists and start requiring women to register for the draft as men, that they will start backing off a little and they might not be so quick to keep pushing the envelope in the future. It is my opinion that if we continue to reassure them (the feminists) that there never will be any call to draft women, that they will continue to push for women to assume ever increasing roles, even combat roles. Right now, the feminists are fighting this on principle and for political gain as they are feeling confident that nobody will ever call them on it. But I am telling them to put up or shut up.

And in the meantime you apparently are willing to risk the lives of many American women who have no dog in the fight. How wonderfully, marvelously gallant of you.