House Panel Says Women Should Register for Draft

Oris Borloff said:
If one believes in equal rights under the law, then both sexes must also bear the same responsibilities. For those who would argue we don't need women if we had to reinstate the draft, then they should accept men are entitled to preferential treatment, like making more money for the same work. Then again, the draft could be eliminated as it is involuntary servitude.
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It would be nice if there were equal rights. So far, men get to control women's bodies, women still make less than men for doing the same work, women still do more than 50% of childcare and housework, daycare for the children is very expensive (especially great daycare), when elderly parents need to be taken care of, women do most of that work, etc.
 
There's no way in hell my daughter is going either. Any of my kids get drafted, they have been encouraged, multiple times by me, to move to another country posthaste.
 
Just about every war that Australia has been involved in in the past 150 years has been an expeditionary war - i.e. we sent soldiers overseas. All but WW II and Vietnam involved only volunteers and professional soldiers. For the above mentioned wars only young men were conscripted.

We don't conscript men or women for war any more. Modern warfare is very different to wars of old. The question of conscription, with reference to conscription of young women, is nonsensical. It is a beat up designed to distract people. Recruitment of men or women with the required technical skills makes much more sense in the 21st century but they should all be volunteers IMO.
 
Devi said:
You have a point. It's not as if everyone can leave to go off to war.
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In times of conflict, when your back is to the wall, you find that the saying: "Needs must, when the devil drives."


That saying comes from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Needs must (when the devil drives)The Brits used to say that you must sometimes do things that you do not like doing It's not the most comfortable way to travel, but needs must.
 
Warrigal said:
Surely you aren't implying the Princess Elizabeth was conscripted for military duty?
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No, but From spring 1941, every woman in Britain aged 18-60 had to be registered, and their family occupations were recorded. ... In December 1941, the National Service Act (no 2) made the conscription of women legal. What the photos demonstrate is that no matter what your station in life is, when your country is at threat of invasion, everyone is expected to do whatever it takes and if that means getting your, or should that be, one's, hands dirty, so be it.

During WW2, the women of Britain worked in the factories, drove the buses and trains, did every sort of job no matter what. Many did serve in the armed forces, they were not drafted into combat units, but could volunteer for combat duty in anti-aircraft units.

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'Ack Ack Girls' were members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) that helped operate Anti-Aircraft Guns in the defense of Britain from German bombing raids during World War 2. Princess Elizabeth was in the ATS.
Ack Ack was not the noise the weapon made but a euphemism for Anti-Aircraft Gun.
By the way, the photos of the then Princess Elizabeth are not from the British press, they were taken by a press photographer for The Washington Post.
 
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Women flew planes too but the difference was that Britain was then in real danger of invasion. Today global politics is going to have to get a lot worse before western countries are in the same situation as countries like Yemen or Afghanistan, with foreign troops fighting a war on our soil. It could happen but it is not all that likely in the next decade. In situations like that every patriot has a role to play, often in informal resistance units.
 

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