For years, we've begged for it. Feminists have shouted for it at the top of their lungs. Well, on June 14, we got it. Hoorah! Victory! Equality! Sounds awesome, right? Well, let's look into it before we cut the cake.
The Senate has passed a bill stating that all women must register for the draft as soon as they turn 18, beginning in 2018. It sounds like it would be a big deal, but I haven't heard many opinions on this topic. I believe it's because people don't think it will really happen -- the government sending our young girls to war. However, the draft has been used several times throughout the course of our history. Young men have been sent overseas against their will to fight wars that had little to do with them. Maybe it's because we haven't had a draft in over 40 years that people have forgotten the horror of it. But with the tension in the Middle East and strain with countries all over the world, it's not that unlikely.
Additionally, what our government has failed to recognize is that women have been drafted by the military since wars began. When men would leave the security of their homes to go fight the "good fight," women had to step up and raise their children on their own. They had to worry if their husbands would come home every day. When they didn't, women had to get jobs to support themselves and raise their children without the financial or emotional support of a husband. Have they forgotten about Rosie the Riveter?
She was the wartime icon meant to provide some much-needed morale to women all over America. This image was meant to encourage women to join the workforce, to take the jobs that men overseas were unable to fill. So that's what women did -- we stepped up, we did it.
But now, they're asking more of us. Well, not actually asking, but forcing us to go to war, if necessary. Telling us it doesn't matter that our future children need their mothers -- need someone to care for them, to nurture them, to rear them in a way that only a mother knows how.
Feminists have pushed this issue through with the backing of the National Organization for Women for years. However, feminists are a minority group in America, and if they are willing to abandon their children and lives to go to war, they should speak for themselves, not the masses. Who is speaking for us?
This matter is not one that requires sweeping under the rug. We need to pay attention to the immoral laws being passed in our country. We need to be vigilant in our search for citizens to represent our best interests. We need to vote.
"I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been." William Golding
