Today I had breakfast with my best friend. Randomly, we somehow got on the topic of how females don't have to be drafted into the Armed Forces if the time ever comes again that a draft is necessary. I stated that if women want to be equal in the workplace, homefront, and every other area of the world, that it should be necessary for them to sign up for the draft and be on the front lines like other young men.
The words "sexist" and "feminist" get thrown around frequently in today's don't-piss-anyone-off-no-matter-what society. In my experience (not saying it is everyone's experience) the women are the ones who have started this movement. Let's get one thing straight, I am all for women's rights, but I am not for women's equality. Don't read too much into this, as I am not into men's equality either. There are some things in this world that men get to/have to/should get to do that women don't and arguably shouldn't do. There are also things that women get to/have to/should get to do that men should also not get the opportunity to do.
Why does everything have to be the same? Can't equal mean separate duties but equal participation/appreciation? Men will never bear children, but isn't it also true that women will never have to be drafted into the military? I hate to use that example again but it's all I can think of in this late hour. I blame the whole thought of separate things being unequal on the Brown v. Board of Education court hearing. Yes, I know that it was not a case about men's or women's rights, but rights of an entire race, but still, it has tainted our view of what equal is.
Moral of the story, lets let separate things sometimes be equal, not in amount or other physically observable things, but maybe in appreciation or participation.
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