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.
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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.
Can we stop for a moment and think about this single gif? Loki’s delayed reaction then playing along and turning his head as if Jane’s blow actually affected him? This is a god, being slapped by a mortal and she LITERALLY has no effect on him what so ever. He DIDN’T have to move any, but he played it up ‘like oh Lady of Thor who is able to wound me, you are worthy’, only she’s not and you can even see it in Sif’s face that this is an outright MOCKERY of Thor and his choice in a woman. This mortal thing does not hurt them, will be dead long before them have reached middle ages; (as there is no proof that the Golden Apples of Idunn have the same effects on mortals as it does on the gods). Loki is mocking Jane, insulting Thor, and showing to Sif that she will never be good enough to be Thor’s actual wife ( which she is in both myth and comics) because Thor wants THIS weak frail mortal.
Random Toughts 