I remember back in high school. Jimmy Carter had just started draft registration. People today don't seem to realize how right-wing Carter was. We were talking about this in class and some pissed off chick was mad that we didn't want to be drafted. If you're anti-war, you can be medic, she said.
Of course, women can be medics, too. Was she planning to enlist?
I was at work once time and two women co-workers were mad that Bill Clinton hadn't been in the Army like their husbands were. I pointed out to them that there are women in the military. If they had been in Vietnam, they wouldn't even have been combat. They wouldn't have somewhat safe.
So, anyway, a judge in Texas just ruled that drafting men only was unconstitutional. We'll see how it goes.
Former CIA agent Gloria Steinem thought that the reason they didn't have women in combat was that men wouldn't able to dominate women who had killed men in war. And I mentioned elsewhere on this blog that there was a foreign student in my high school who fought in Bangladesh. The teacher asked him to do a presentation about his country and he brought in some slides he took during the war and traumatized the class. If that kid wanted to act up, I don't what the teachers would have done about it.
I heard that this was what happened in colleges after World War Two. A lot of grizzled war veterans got on the GI Bill and wreaked havoc.
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