cv wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:57:53 -0800, bluesmama wrote:
>
> >
> > conno...{at}hotmail.com wrote:
> >> 1. Direct the feminists to the nearest draft office to sign up for
> >> defence of their same rights without the usual copouts and excuses
> >> about not wanting to die young.
> >
> > Direct the men to the nearest draft office to protest instead of
sign
> > up.
> >
>
> This is a disingenuous reply. Drafts are imposed only when essential,
it
> too costly, politically, to be used casually. And war itself is not
the
> sole preserve of men, women in power such as Margaret Thatcher, Golda
Meir
> and Indira Gandhi have demonstrated ample proclivities for it. More
> importantly, the US and other western democracies have female
majorities
> but that hasn't stopped wars or the draft.
>
> Besides, the wider issues of foreign policy and conflict are
orthogonal
> issues to the administration of a draft. Either both men and women
should
> be drafted or no one should. Anything else is sexism, plain and
simple.

It most certainly is. So protest the draft of men if you're against the
concept of war. If you're pro-war, then protest the lack of women in
the draft. I think war is wrong, no matter what. My protesting the lack
of women wouldn't be consistent with my beliefs.
>
> >> 2. Direct the feminist to the local EO mine to ensure she does her
> >> share of the hard yakka.
> >
> > Pick up your own socks and wash your own filthy toilet and we'll
talk.
> >
>
> Millions of single men do it everyday, but I'm yet to encounter a man
> who compares it to working in a mine. Does it take a feminist to hold
them
> equivalent?

My point was that there are many different ways to be productive. In
your life as a man or woman, you are undoubtedly both the giver and
receiver of productivity. Just like a woman is. Society is a give and
take that way, and both genders are important to the functioning of the
whole.



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