Gender Issues

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Who is going to have the babies? Maybe our situation isn't that drastic now? I really like you Hector, and I think you're an intelligent guy, but that statement was really stupid.

It's sounds pretty simpleminded doesn't it?

http://jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker121506.php3

The question is meant to point to the structure of family. Who is baby's biggest bond with? Mom.

Mom is the one you go to usually, because mom was the one you were always with as a child.

Let me make this more relevant: the mothers serving in Iraq and Aghanistan. Daddy dying is pain beyond compare, but when Mom dies it's a whole other world for that child.

Probably you've just had a lapse in your otherwise considerable intelligence.

Probably?

This is an argument against having a draft, not against having women in the military. I am against the draft as well, and this is the main reason.

Well, I had a few points that I had wanted to come across, but only if you read (past tense) Lief's posts preceding mine.

I think the draft should apply to both women and men equally (for those of appropriate age and fitness), but that would absolutely decimate our society in a war.

Wow, now you suddenly agree with me?