Pentagon Officials: Women Should Be Required to Sign Up for the Draft

So the battle of opinions begins and the Pentagon has weighed in on its feelings toward the Selective Service registration that requires all young men between the ages of 18-25 to continue on as enforced since the 1970s, but has added a little addition that will more than likely be seen as a slap in the face to women and their feminist advocates.

For many decades, the National Organization for Women (NOW) has been championing the equal rights for women in every male-dominated venue, from the military to the National Football League (NFL).  What many advocates of these efforts seem to miss more often than not is that equality in the eyes of feminists is not true equality in the eyes of those who see on fairness.

There is a school of thought out there that many males in the industries targeted by feminists to become more “inclusive of other genders” are really at a disadvantage because they are being asked to step aside to make room for people who are “just as qualified” but who “require” a separate set of standards for them to be “equally successful.”

For instance, in the US military, police academies, firefighter schools and EMT training facilities, males have a set standard of physical fitness that they must achieve in order to be maintained by the organization.  If, for example, I am not able to pass the Physical Training (PT) test in the military, the police academies, firefighter schools or EMT training facilities, I can be discharged for physical reasons.

When feminists say they want equality, they are only speaking in platitudes.  Equality is not something they really, actually are calling for, because if they were, they would be appalled and infuriated by the fact that for as long as women have been in the military, police academies, firefighter schools, or EMT training facilities, they have been told that their physical standards DON’T have to equal the male physical standards!

Shocked?  You shouldn’t be.  Any man or woman who has attended any of these organizations will tell you.  A male of 18 years of age in the US Army must perform at least 35 push-ups and 47 sit-ups in two minutes each and must run the 2-mile run in under 16 minutes.  A female of 18 years of age in the US Army must perform at least 13 push-ups and 47 sit-ups in two minutes each and must run the 2-mile run in under 20 minutes.  In fact, these PT standards can be the difference between promotion and non-promotion.

In an effort to help round off some of this unfairness, however, the Pentagon has gone ahead and offered that they believe women should now be required to sign up for Selective Service, just like the men.

The Pentagon says the country should stick with mandatory registration for a military draft, and it advocates a requirement for women to sign up for the first time in the nation’s history.

The recommendations are contained in a Defense Department report to Congress that serves as a starting point for a commission examining military, national and public service.

Congress ordered the Pentagon report, and the office of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness completed it in the early months of the Trump administration.

Currently, only male citizens and residents age 18-25 are required to register, for a pace of about 2 million each year.

Women, whom the government has never ordered to sign up, would add 11 million to the Selective Service System database “in short order,” the report says.

President Carter restarted draft registration in 1980 as a message to Soviet leaders. Congress exempted women because they did not perform combat.

I am hoping that this does not go through.  Being a father of 4 girls and 1 boy, I’d rather keep it the way it is.  However, I understand that this is sort of a thumb in the eye of feminists who are constantly whining about equality when what they really genuinely want is equal pay for unequal standards.

That’s not equality.  It’s actually just the opposite.  We don’t need an additional 11 million women on the rolls of our military.  Our force is one of the most deadly forces on the face of the planet and has been an all-volunteer force for decades.  The enforcement of a Selective Service to include women is a political ploy and nothing else and we should not waste our breath attempting to make even more excuses of why women should feel guilty if they don’t feel like crawling through mud holes and under concertina wire for the sake of saying they did it.

If a woman truly wants to be a soldier, I say “thank you for your service and courage.”  If they don’t, perhaps feminists should step out of the way and allow women to make up their own minds for a change.  It would certainly cut down on the almost-misogynistic views that they (feminists) appear to have toward women in the modern age.

Source:  The Washington Times

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