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In reply to the discussion: Should women be drafted into the military? [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I come from a military family and one family member believes everyone, males and females, should have to serve a full 4 years before going to college. We disagree on that vehemently. She was a WAC. If rape happened in the military back then, I doubt it was as widespread as it is now. There is no fucking way I could say I think women should be drafted. We wouldn't be allowed to fight, just do bullshit tasks, and get raped by other soldiers and commanding officers. And none of them would ever get convicted even if they wasted the time to have one of those sham military trials. No, thanks, but no thanks. I don't believe in the draft to begin with, but I REALLY would not ever say women should be subjected to that kind of bullshit. Been raped, done that, don't want to go through it again no matter how much the local government run county mental health "official counselor for gay people" of Richmond County, North Carolina, thinks I need to "get right with God." I wish the internet had been around back then. I got raped and that was the extent of my therapy. I wish they guy had killed me instead. At least there is some common human respect in being murdered. Being raped is being degraded then being degraded again when you try to get the authorities to help then feeling nothing but pain from it for the rest of your life. There is no way I would vote to see any woman go through that.
So, hell no, I won't even consider the male/female "equality" aspect of your question until they stop raping women and getting away with it in the military. Even though I grew up in a military family, I fear soldiers nowadays. Hell no, women should not be drafted, but then again, I don't think men ever should have been either. But anyone who spouts off at the mouth about how we "need" to go to war should have to put up or shut up. THOSE are the ones who should be drafted and ONLY those people should be drafted, regardless of gender or anything else. Otherwise, keep it volunteer for those who want to do it.