Do women support mandatory registration for Selective Service?

Question

In other words, should women have to register for the draft? Note that many men don't agree with it either but they still are required by law to do so. Women want equal rights, should they also want equal burden?

Answer 1

No.  Women have a slightly different set of issues.  How can women have periods in fox holes and Prisoner of War Camps.  They would literally die.  Yeah, if they are on a ship in the Indian Ocean and have access to tampons, and other feminine products.  It's just too much to ask.

Answer 2

Yes I support it. Just because it's mandatory does not mean the woman would be on the front line. For all you know she could be a recruiter or something that doesn't even involve having to go to war.

Answer 3

No, because I remember how it was done during the Vietnam War. Those who came from privileged backgrounds could find loopholes and beat the draft. They could use their family connections to bypass waiting lists and get into the National Guard. That meant they would never see combat or even have to leave the country. Those of more modest means could go to college and get student deferments to avoid being drafted. That left the poorer people and many of them did end up on the front lines. I've heard it said that the Vietnam War was mainly fought by ghetto boys and farm boys. The point I'm trying to make is that a draft would be inherently unfair because it means the poorest people will have to make the greatest sacrifices while those who can will be able to avoid it.

Answer 4

this is funny, typical feminists: We want equal rights +extra rights but don't want to ever have to defend our ultra rights.

All I can say if ww3 happens feminist= deep trouble. Because personally many that I know would rather revolt than help defend this misandric society.

Answer 5

I don't think the Selective Service should exist. The fewer people registering, the better. Rather than see both men AND women register, I'd rather see neither, and I will and do fight to see this gender inequity righted.

Answer 6

I don't support it now, and I never have.  I don't think ANYONE should have to serve who doesn't WANT to.  It's insane!

Answer 7

No. I want the Selective Service to be eradicated. Maybe without that safety net, our politicians will think before jumping into war without a plan.

Answer 8

It should be both sexes or neither.

Answer 9

I support the work of the War Resisters League:  http://www.warresisters.org/

Here is a listing for  antidraft, antikill, antiselectiveservice, antiwar websites and 1-800 numbers to answer all your questions:

http://www.girightshotline.org/links/ind...

Answer 10

First of all, nobody - man or woman - should be forced to register for the draft.

Secondly, what good is a draft for women if they won't let women fight?

Thirdly, if somehow the draft is reinstated and women are finally given legal backing to step in the front lines and help protect their families, husbands and homes, then yes, women should be legally drafted.

However, I can promise you that I know of several women who would willingly enter the way if only they could do more than navigation.

Answer 11

i would like to see NO ONE have to register; but you are right, if we want equal rights.........

Answer 12

No most do not want equal burden or support mandatory registration.  Men, largely, will have to go overseas and do the protecting & killing for them (women want African, Arabic and all women around the world to be free.)

And be killed, taken prisioner & wounded in the process (in which case, for many of the wounded, their girlfriends/wives leave them.)

Answer 13

Well maybe when men start having babies all that will change!

Answer 14

I'm against the selective service in general.

However before anti-feminists start squeeling about how women wouldn't want to fight, if everything but selective service remained the same as it is today, women wouldn't see combat. Women can't be infantry, and it wasn't a woman who decided that.

Answer 15

Equal rights = equal responsibility so they'll have to unless they wish to be accused of hypocrisy

I don't advocate for the draft at all though and that's probably the easiest solution

Answer 16

I don't really think either women *or* men should have to sign up to potentially be drafted.  If you want to join the military, either in general or because you feel strongly about a particular cause it's dealing with, then please do. . . but it doesn't seem right to be asking that much of someone who's against what's being fought over.

Maybe when the opportunities (both actual and *perceived*) are equal for women and men in the military, then this "equality" argument will be more valid.  The last time I checked, it didn't seem that we really have those conditions.