Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP Newsgroups: net.college,net.flame Subject: Re: "Universities need not verify draft status of students . . ." Message-ID: <505@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 16:34:25 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.505 Posted: Tue Dec 18 16:34:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:21:50 EST References: <577@pucc-k> <147@panda.UUCP> <247@ssc-vax.UUCP> <371@amdcad.UUCP> <4762@fortune.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Distribution: net Organization: Unix-like Operating Systems Consultant Lines: 45 Xref: watmath net.college:552 net.flame:7308 Summary: > Article <4762@fortune.UUCP>, from polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard) +---------------- | In article <371@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes: | >> that women | >> would be raped if they became POWs (whereas, we all know that male POWs | >> play bridge and drink Kahlua & cream while in captivity). | >> | >> -- Mark A. | >> ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph | > | >Yeah, I know a woman who claims to be a feminist but doesn't want to | >get drafted for the above reason. | > | >I find it impossible to take her seriously. Can you say "rights without | >responsibilities"? Sure you can. | | How many MEN do you know who want to get drafted (as opposed to volunteering)? | Do you know any MEN who would enjoy being a prisoner of war? | I suspect that her opinion agrees with that of most men. | If you can't take her seriously, that's your problem. | You can probably say, "Thinking before writing", but | can you do it? Can *you*? Please re-read the text above. I say that since we have the draft, both sexes should be drafted. She says, according to the note, that since we have the draft, she doesn't want to be involved. Women and men both have one misunderstanding about rape. It's no different from any other form of torture; it's just the only one that MEN think is jolly good fun, and therefore women don't realize that in wartime, it's no worse than any other form of torture. Isn't rationality wonderful? (N.B. I'm aware that P. Ngai didn't provide enough information for me to conclude that; I assumed a reasonable meaning, based on the fact that he said *SHE* didn't want to be drafted, rather than that she found the draft *itself* distasteful; big difference there. Phil, how does your `feminist' feel about the draft in general?) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 (216) 524-1416 <<<<<< An equal opportunity employer: I both create and destroy bugs :-) >>>>>>