When Did It Become an Insult to Train Like a Girl?

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The army is under a lot of pressure to become more "inclusive". If the standards for female recruits were the same as they are for males, no women (with a few exceptions) would be able to join the marines, or any other corp. Despite the popular narrative, men and women are not equal when it comes to physical capacity. It doesn't mean that women can't join the army in positions that don't require such capacities.

As a side note, it is interesting to see that social activists are pushing really hard for women to be able to join elite units on a "free will" basis, but not at all for girls to be required to enroll into selective service.

As far as I know, the youngest persons to have been drafted into the US Armed Forces are now eligible for Social Security. That is to say, nobody turning 19 in 1974 or even 1973 was drafted. It is hard to imagine the circumstances in which the US would return to a draft; the draft was unfairly arbitrary in the 1960s, even with so many troops in Vietnam and in western Europe. With the size of the military DoD now has in mind it would be impossible to make it fair.

But yes there are agendas out there.

I totally agree with you, it is highly unlikely that the draft will be used any time soon. But then maybe we should get rid of the selective service altogether.

It would be a symbolic fight, to include girls in the selective service, but don't feminists fight symbolic fights all the time? It would be a very strong gesture, that proves that feminism is about true equality, to take a stand against an inequality that does advantage women. Nowadays, when feminism and feminists are highly criticized, I think it would be a great PR move.

might I add men and women are not equal in other capacities as well .. despite popular narrative and political correctness..

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