You have a very woke take on this topic.

I think the fruitfulness isn’t so much that there is no activist student, but rather there is no activist student that isn’t an insufferable brat. In open discussions, people will have different ideas, and oftentimes you may not like those ideas, and that’s ok. The issue comes that the activist may think that all must…

I know. Special privileges for everyone!

They’d get the same exemptions men do:

“This is about women’s lives, once again, being used as pawns in a political skirmish.”

“Men aren’t necessarily faster either”

lol

tl;dr, and do not care.

Equality in opportunity and responsibility. You just want special treatment due to a sexist coddling and infantilizing of women.

There hasn’t been a draft in decades, and there probably won’t be one again. This is a symbolic gesture.

Actually I’m stoked for it. I’m a long time pusher of the idea that true equality requires the good and the bad. As long as standards aren’t relaxed for women, this is good progress.

A draft is an ugly necessity in a divided world.

It got an actual equality measure passed though, so it’s something.

I’m quite enjoying my dose of schadenfruede here.

Or, maybe, just maybe, we can realize that not everybody of the opposite gender matches what sensationalized story we’re getting frightened over online, and that the vast majority of them are fine? Or we could just be scared of our own shadow like you propose.

Damn, you missed that point hard.

That’s the problem when anybody on Gawker/Jezebel accuses somebody of racism/sexism/transphobia/homophobiea/etc. There’s legitimate bigots and sexists in the comments of course, but I am talking of when people on here use those accusations as shorthand for “you disagree, go away”. Not only can you not prove an…

How is Bernie splitting anything? We’re still in the primaries.

Anybody with brains can see through it for the paper thin ploy it is.

“This affects men too, but it’s still totally their fault anyways”