Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed
From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Now is the time for all good men...
Message-ID: <419@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 14:09:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtxinu.419
Posted: Mon Jun 24 14:09:33 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 02:40:10 EDT
References: <704@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA
Lines: 22

In article <704@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) writes:
>>                                      ...  However, I noted with an extreme
>>degree of irritation how many congressMEN made the blatantly sexist remark,
>>"obviously no one feels women should have to go into combat;" and even more,
>>I noted that no women I knew challenged this statement.  They generally
>>agreed with it.
>
>Well, you didn't meet me soon enough.  If there has to be a draft I don't
>see any reason why women shouldn't participate in it.  And if people have to
>go into combat, *and* if women can meet the physical demands, I'm not at all
>sure why women are exempt from it.

I agree that women should'nt be drafted into the armed forces.  That's
*one* of the reasons I support the ERA.  Equality works both ways.  I
don't think men should be drafted, either.  On the other hand, if men
*are* going to be drafted, then women should be, too.

-- 
Ed Gould		    mt Xinu, 2910 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA  94710  USA
{ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed   +1 415 644 0146

"A man of quality is not threatned by a woman of equality."