Comments on: Should Women Be Drafted into the Military?

By: michelle

michelle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:48:23 +0000

Jean, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve read in a while. First of all, enough with the name calling. Second of all, as a response to “BECAUSE WOMEN ARE THE ONES WHO BARE THE CHILDREN AND YOU KILL US OFF THERE WOULD BE NO MORE AMERICAN CHILDREN BORN TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY,” you can say the same thing about men. If you kill 100% of either gender, we’d pretty much die out, so that’s a poor argument.

Anyway, I don’t think men OR women should be required to sign up for the draft. They should only sign up if they want to, men AND women. Yes, men as a whole are stronger, faster, have quicker reaction times, etc. better than women, but if a woman can pass all the required tests to join the military for whatever job they’d like, I see no reason for women to not to be able to join. Just my opinion.

By: Wiz

Wiz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:24:49 +0000

I bench 490.
Tell me a woman that can bench anything besides 49 sandwiches.

By: gretchen

gretchen — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:17:56 +0000

Ummm… don’t we need men to make babies, too?

By: aguy

aguy — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:12:39 +0000

LOL, nice to see you think rationally and actually have a real argument. ^

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:38:02 +0000

yah i would like to comment on that. YOU MUST BE A FAG THAT WOULD SAY SHIT LIKE THAT AND SCREW MEN! because if you draft women and kill all the women how are you going to make more american soldiars BECAUSE WOMEN ARE THE ONES WHO BARE THE CHILDREN AND YOU KILL US OFF THERE WOULD BE NO MORE AMERICAN CHILDREN BORN TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY THE REASON WHY THEY DON’T DRAFT WOMEN IS TO KEEP THE BABIES COMING we make it all happen we carry the child WE CARRIED YOU AND GAVE YOU LIFE IN THIS WORLD YOU PEACE OF SHIT WHO THINKS WOMEN SHOULD BE DRAFTED!

By: aguy

aguy — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:52:18 +0000

Okay so this is my first time posting, but I just had to because this pisses me off.

Okay so I’m a 14 soon to be 15 year old guy (as my name states) and if women and men are going to be equal, that means women are going to have to register for the draft too. Yes, women may not be able to handle combat. There’s a very simple solution for this, which is making combat roles optional and having women fill out the non-combat jobs that many men have, and so more guys are freed up for fighting. Some of the comments here are just absurd, like “women are special” or that “they’re the bearers of the next generation”. There are only two genders, and I’m sorry to break your heart, but your gender doesn’t make you special. As for bearers of the next generation, you need a woman AND a man for that. If you get pregnant, or already have children, obviously you’re not going to be called up. So that fixes that. The military is not stupid. There not going to have a 27 year old mother of 3 go through boot camp. They will already know if you’re fit for service and have your info on file.

It bothers me how some(I stress SOME) girls expect equality but at the same time say things like they’re special. By saying women are special, and shouldn’t have to go to war, you’re implying men are expendable. That it doesn’t matter if they die.

Rant over.

BTW I meant join up, and it makes me happy to see women fighting overseas. Cheyenne, I make my own sandwiches all the time . Don’t listen to people that say that kind of stuff.

By: Cheyenne

Cheyenne — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:01:07 +0000

So I’m 15…. And a girl. But I can already tell you what I want to do with my life. Army Rangers. I was just kind of searching the internet when I found this site and wanted in on it.
Eddie, Zarro, Gabriel. I really don’t like you. Women should be aloud to serve where they want and just like men if they are physically and mentally capable( but don’t have kids), they should be drafted if need be. As someone who has no desire to stay home, have kids( at all. like never), or having a boring job as a nurse. Its not always about gender its about interests. I’m not a feminist but I’m not all about manpower either. And you know what maybe women don’t have as much physical strength(actually women have proved to have more lower body strength than men) as men but that’s because we’ve never been required to. Men have always stepped in to do the heavy lifting and as women become more independent things are changing.
Maybe men have the emotional problems in this case and can’t deal with that. Women in the draft isn’t a bad thing or a good thing. How can anyone have the answer since its never been tested in the U.S.? Feminist are annoying but honestly men on this site really just ticked me off. You guys can make your own damn sandwich.

By: shantel

shantel — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:15:05 +0000

Women should be drafted for war. It is not fair that a man has to risk his life, and women can pick and chose. People say that women are not wired for war. I think people just say that because they dont want women there, not because it is true. How would we know if we dont give it a chance. If we really want equality we should be drafted, and show the variety of things women and men can do

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:56:17 +0000

The inevitable result is that training standards are lowered, and then the facts are then ferociously denied. This has already resulted in one pilot death (Navy Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen) [I am sure more have resulted, as this book written in 1995]. Also, David Horowitz offers specifics:
“Gender norming” is now the rule—women are measured against other women, rather than against men who outperform them.
Even though West Point officially says there have been no negative effects from the admission of women, the sworn courtroom testimony of a West Point official says that women cannot perform nearly as well as men and that the men’s training program has, for that reason, been downgraded. For example, men are no longer required to run carrying heavy weapons because women are unable to do that.
Even if a man is willing to lead women in combat, even the thought that it might not be suitable is sufficient to end your career. This happened with Lt. Commander Kenneth Carkhuff who was recommended for early promotion due to his “unlimited potential … destined for command and beyond,” but after a private conversation with his superior officer that his religious views made him doubtful about putting women in combat, though those views also required him to lead women into combat if ordered to by his superiors, he was discharged.
Due to such threats as the above, career officers do not speak about the performance of women in combat positions, because to do so puts them at great risk of discharge—especially if they mention anything regarding women not performing as well as the men. This is an extremely dangerous policy and will result in the loss of lives and possibly wars.
In physical fitness tests, very few women could do even one pull-up, so the Air Force Academy gave credit for the amount of time they could hang on the bar. Female cadets averaged almost four times as many visits to the medical clinic as male cadets. At West Point, the female cadets’ injury rate in field training was fourteen times that of men, and 61 percent of women failed the complete physical test, compared to 4.8 percent of men. During Army basic training, women broke down in tears, particularly on the rifle range.
The pregnancy problem. Navy ships have had to be recalled from missions because of the pregnancy of female sailors. A male and a female sailor on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, both married to others, videotaped themselves having sex in a remote part of the ship. There had been thirty-eight pregnancies since the crew went aboard the Eisenhower, fourteen of them after the ship was deployed. Only someone who has never been with troops could not anticipate this result or fail to realize that it will be a major problem forever. The troops in question are very young, at an age when their hormones are, to put it mildly, fiercely insistent.
Effects on morale can be particularly adverse. The presence of women among male troops weakens combat readiness. All-male units in the field experience bonding that enhances unit cohesion and effectiveness. When women are introduced, men stop relating to each other and begin trying to attract the women. Men can quickly become on less-than-friendly terms with a mini-war over a woman. Nor can morale be improved when accusations of harassment are always a threat. An accusation of sexual harassment by the woman, even if unproven, would severally damage the man’s service career, and both the man and the woman are acutely aware of the fact.
The Israelis, Soviets, and Germans, when in desperate need of front-line troops, placed women in combat, but later barred them. Male troops forgot their tactical objectives in order to protect the women from harm of capture, knowing what the enemy would do to the female prisoners of war. This made combat units less effective and exposed the men to even greater risks.
Our military seems quite aware of such dangers, but, because of the feminists, it would be politically dangerous to respond as the Israelis did by taking women out of harm’s way. Instead, the American solution is to try to stifle the natural reactions of men. The Air Force, for example, established a mock prisoner of war camp to desensitize male recruits so they won’t react like men when women prisoners scream under torture. There is a considerable anomaly here. The military is training men to be more sensitive to women in order to prevent sexual harassment and also training men to be insensitive to women being raped and sodomized or screaming under torture. It is impossible to believe the both efforts can succeed simultaneously.

By: Zarro

Zarro — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:18:31 +0000

If a women needs to stay home to practice her “cooking” her sandwich better be worth the lives of hundreds of men.