It always gets me when MRAs bring up the draft as an example of discrimination against men. Yes, it’s true that no woman in America has ever been subject to conscription in times of war; however, being that the most recent draft was in 1973, most likely neither have you. If you get to drag up stuff that happened before you were born, so does everybody else – and I’m pretty sure the ladies are going to win that particular game of misery poker.
BAM.
Also, considering the draft was voted into law by Congress in 1940 but the first woman was elected to Congress in 1973, men only have themselves to blame. We didn’t decide the rules of the draft. They did.
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Actually, the first woman was elected to Congress in 1916 and was in office in 1940. Her name was Jeanette Rankin.
She was also a lifelong pacifist. She opposed every declaration of war bll that crossed her desk, and her vote was the only one against the proposal to go to war with Japan, because “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.”
The men in Congress demanded she changed her vote and she refused. She was attacked by an angry mob and maligned in the press.
BAM.
Men will blame Women for the draft but refuse to admit it was men who voted for the draft.
1. There are plenty of female MRAs. Feminists ignore them because they’re inconvenient.
2. MRAs don’t care whether men or women responsible, they just want to end it. It’s feminism which divides things into Oppressor/Oppressed binaries, and has spent almost it’s entire existence ignoring the draft, which is clearly an example of gender inequality.
3. It’s manifestly hypocritical for OP to go “MRAs have never been drafted!” when feminists regularly claim women are victims now because certain women were screwed over by things which happened centuries ago. OP is clearly a hypocrite.
“Also, considering the draft was voted into law by Congress in 1940 but the first woman was elected to Congress in 1973, men only have themselves to blame. We didn’t decide the rules of the draft. They did.”
I honestly can’t understand this line of thinking. Men have themselves to blame??? Men aren’t a collective sweetie, men don’t have themselves to blame. Men have some stupid warmongering congressmen to blame, but not all men had some collective action in establishing the draft, just as men are not some monolithic collective unit. Each man is an individual.
Why are people like smitethepatriarchy and lucyaudley and prokopetz so hung up on this idea that certain shared chromosomal patterns automatically means that every individual person with those chromosomes are just one great big monolithic entity? I can guarantee you that the young male students protesting drafts and wars aren’t to blame for the draft. Even though they are indeed men. Just why do you people struggle so hard with persons having individual identities and recognizing that they are not unanimous nor accountable for every single thing some chromosome-sharer has done in society?
And that just because one person of one gender does something untoward or undesirable that it somehow reflects and represents every single individual in the world of that gender? It doesn’t. So stop it.
See a psychiatrist, because you have glaring cognitive problems like extreme exhibition of outgroup homogeneity biases (aka me and people like me are diverse unique individuals, but people unlike me are all uniform in thoughts and actions) and group attribution errors (aka some person (A) or a small group of people (B) did X so every person who shares an attribute with A or B is automatically complicit and prefers X too). Being that way is so damn fallacious.
This is a great point, and thank you for putting it into words.
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