smitethepatriarchy:

bemusedlybespectacled:

sourcedumal:

lucyaudley:

smitethepatriarchy:

prokopetz:

It always gets me when MRAs bring up the draft as an example of discrimination against men. Yes, it’s true that no woman in America has ever been subject to conscription in times of war; however, being that the most recent draft was in 1973, most likely neither have you. If you get to drag up stuff that happened before you were born, so does everybody else - and I’m pretty sure the ladies are going to win that particular game of misery poker.

BAM.

Also, considering the draft was voted into law by Congress in 1940 but the first woman was elected to Congress in 1973, men only have themselves to blame. We didn’t decide the rules of the draft. They did.

welp

Actually, the first woman was elected to Congress in 1916 and was in office in 1940. Her name was Jeanette Rankin.

She was also a lifelong pacifist. She opposed every declaration of war bll that crossed her desk, and her vote was the only one against the proposal to go to war with Japan, because “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.”

The men in Congress demanded she changed her vote and she refused. She was attacked by an angry mob and maligned in the press.

BAM.

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