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by guerrilla9 hours ago |
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upvoteby xocnad6 hours ago|
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The US does not require women to register for the draft. And our current political leadership over the military is actively attempting to take women out of combat and leadership roles.
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upvoteby croes8 hours ago|
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In 2006, the Federal Administrative Court justified the absence of compulsory military service for women in a ruling, citing, among other reasons, that women face greater burdens in the domestic sphere than men and that this alone would justify their exemption from military service obligations. So military service is seen as a service like healthcare and care services where women already do most of the work, mostly privately and unpaid.
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upvoteby guerrilla8 hours ago|
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> unpaid

Right, completely unpaid, which is why most women are homeless and starving on the street.

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upvoteby croes7 hours ago|
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Right, completely unpaid, which is why most women who take care of family members don’t acquire any pension and social security benefits for that work. That’s why many of them don’t have the time for a full time paid job and either work part time or don’t have a job at all.
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upvoteby guerrilla6 hours ago|
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They have a job and they are paid for it. They also do have pensions and social security benefits: through their husbands. If the husband remains alive, they continue to be paid as they were before retirement. If he dies, they often inherent his pension and assets. It's a terrible system and we need to modernize it but you're still wrong on all of your points.
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upvoteby croes2 hours ago|
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No, they are not paid. Their husbands get paid, they have all the pensions and social security benefits, not them.

Means total dependence on their husbands. If they get a divorce they have nothing.

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upvoteby throwawaypath2 hours ago|
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>If they get a divorce they have nothing.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone want to tell him?

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upvoteby Zetaphor1 hours ago|
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This community showing all its colors in this thread
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upvoteby AlexeyBelov11 minutes ago|
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It's crazy how anti-feminist HN is. "But whatabout womans???" is all over this thread.

Mind, this is coming from people who were never supportive of women and equality, and now are making snark comments about this equality which they never ever cared for. What.

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upvoteby allan_s6 hours ago|
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But then we also can't request 50% of CEOs being women or any job with that arguments ? Wouldn't it be more fair to be excused if you actually can prove that you're taking care of familly members regardless of man/woman ? Why would a perfectly able 20 year old woman be excuzed by default based on her sex ?
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upvoteby croes2 hours ago|
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You are excused from military service if you have to take care of family members, but it’s so rarely done by men compared to women that it is less work to handle the exceptions than changing the law and create more paperwork
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upvoteby dudul5 hours ago|
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You got to admire the fantastic mental gymnastic some people are able to pull off to evade the arrows of accountability and integrity...
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upvoteby croes2 hours ago|
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I more astound by the mental gymnastics how people can point at every single thing where women get an advantage but at the same tome ignore all the others where they are still disadvantaged
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upvoteby raffael_de9 hours ago|
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Also Curds and Israelis prove that women can very well be full on soldiers.
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upvoteby guerrilla9 hours ago|
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Kurds* yes and Sweden as well. I agree, it's not like people are running around swinging broadswords, maces and war axes anymore. Anyone without a disability can run and pull a trigger or do all those technical jobs.
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upvoteby csa8 hours ago|
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> Anyone without a disability can run and pull a trigger

This is very much untrue in terms of being a soldier in a high-functioning military.

Technically, you’re not wrong (at least for lighter weapons). That said, there are many more physically demanding things that are involved in doing infantry things (which is what you’re describing) other than running and pulling a trigger (and ideally hitting the target).

> or do all those technical jobs.

Depends on the job, but much more likely.

The vast majority of the jobs in the military are not infantry or infantry-type jobs, so I can see a lot more scope for drafted women who aren’t cut out for infantry doing these things.

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upvoteby guerrilla7 hours ago|
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> The vast majority of the jobs in the military are not infantry or infantry-type jobs

Exactly.

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