Well, I looked it up, and apparently all male civilians between ages 18-25 are required to register in the Selective Service System so that a draft can be readily resumed if needed.
I suppose that's not as drastic as what I thought we had- the government just legally taking up all the healthy adult males for war.
That’s how it used to be(up to and including the Vietnam War), although there were ways to dodge it - just asked the current president, who faked bone spurs in his feet. You could also take a moral stand against the war like Muhammad Ali if you weren’t a coward who just wanted other people to fight instead of you before pretending that you were against the war later.
But back in those days women couldn’t work, couldn’t get an advanced education(look up “finishing school”), couldn’t file for divorce, and marital rape was perfectly legal. So it was worse for both genders...white men have never faced anywhere near the level of oppression that women do, even today.
Who has it worse, men or women?
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The the West, neither, everywhere else and historically, women.
I'm an American woman who grew up in a patriarchal household. Living in that system made it even more apparent how not oppressed Western women are.
The biggest problems I have in society are simply being expected to wear make up and dress nice, but those are minor nuisances.
I don't think any problem an American woman has today can hold a candle to the draft.
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The draft? We don't have a draft anymore.
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Well, I looked it up, and apparently all male civilians between ages 18-25 are required to register in the Selective Service System so that a draft can be readily resumed if needed.
I suppose that's not as drastic as what I thought we had- the government just legally taking up all the healthy adult males for war.
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That’s how it used to be(up to and including the Vietnam War), although there were ways to dodge it - just asked the current president, who faked bone spurs in his feet. You could also take a moral stand against the war like Muhammad Ali if you weren’t a coward who just wanted other people to fight instead of you before pretending that you were against the war later.
But back in those days women couldn’t work, couldn’t get an advanced education(look up “finishing school”), couldn’t file for divorce, and marital rape was perfectly legal. So it was worse for both genders...white men have never faced anywhere near the level of oppression that women do, even today.
I rarely (maybe twice a year) wear makeup. If you never do it to begin with, people don't notice.