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Why just men? Yes, men are generally stronger than women, but that doesn't mean women are not capable of military service. And there are also men who aren't capable of something like that.
Note: I'm against being forced into military service, just asking this
From a repop level men are more desposible than women. Which is funny cause women are second class citizens often. To clarify, 1 woman can only produce on avg 1 child per year. While a man can do far more than that. So if male pop dropped from a wierd disease or war its recoverable. Not ideal obviously from a genetic level but far better than if women population got cut in half. That would cause tons of problems.
Whilst this in theory may hold, people are social animals that live in societies with rules and norms and that typically have only one partner. If half your male population dies, you're not gonna have guys go around having sex with multiple women just to make up the difference, you're just gonna have a lot of single women.
Alternatively, there could just be a ton of single moms. I have seen that first hand. Males on my dad side are the worst. Dozen of kids each with multiple women globally. I Doubt I'll ever be able to meet all my half siblings. But I 100% agree that my statement is purely numbers and takes 0 consideration on human emotions. Which is typical how wars are fought. 0 regard for the peasants feelings.
"Breed you dogs! I need meat for the orphan crushing machine"
From a different article:
“Of course, it will be open to both sexes,” added the prime minister. “I do not want to belittle the role of women here in any way, but war – due to physical conditions – is associated more with men.”
Ah, that's fair. Thanks!
The reality of it is that men are expendable, from a population standpoint. Birth rates are far more limited by the number of women than the number of men, since pregnancy and gestation takes so long.
Obviously this is over reductive, but it’s one way to approach the question.
Thats not true at all, its not like farm husbandry, human do not just bred like animals. Only a fraction of women would be willing to have kids without a long term partner.
Societies where there is a high male mortality rate adapt. Iceland apparently has had its uncommonly accepting view of single motherhood for centuries, stemming from the large proportion of the male population employed in fishing, and the dangerous nature (in those days) of going to sea meaning that it was not uncommon for fathers to die before their children.
Isn't this usually the case?
They adapt by having more children per couples, not by having more single mother families. At least that was the case after WWII and WWI, but nowadays couples cannot afford more than 2 or 3 children.
And single mother in iceland is totally different, they were a couple with children before the husband died.
I think there are no absolutes here. Some women will wait for a long term partner, and a fraction of that group will have children by accident before finding one, and some other women don't wait for one (especially in a context where men don't abound), etc. What women do overall is the amalgation of millions of specific biographies concerning unique women.
No absolutes sure, but there is a clear pattern...
Have you seen the real world? Women who are willing to wait until a stable man comes along to have children with him are the exception, not the rule.
You mean the World where demography is crashing down? You are a clown
No.
Lack of partner support is the most important reason for delaying having children in the UK
That's... Exactly what was being said above
Nope. The contrary was said.
Maybe because they don't want to send their whole population to the meat grinder?
In the rogue state of Israel, it's required for "both sexes".
The only democracy in the Middle East.
So I don't see problem with it. More like a sexism problem.
EDIT: It's "not compulsory", so != conscription.
Because women only want equal or greater representation in the cushy jobs.
Feminism has never been about equality and the people who say otherwise are lying to your faces.
No.
How come we never see a push for equal representation in waste management?
How come we never see a push to include women in the draft, or abolish it for men?
Actions speak louder than words.
We don't have conscription in Australia and women went to prison to help stop it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Australia
We do. You're wrong.
Of course some of you do, it'd be asinine to think that literally nobody does.
But by and large, most of you don't care about equality.
No. Don't mistake your own views for facts.
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Sorry bud, I'm not going to ignore all of the experiences I've had with you people just because those experiences don't reaffirm ~~your worldviews~~ what you want to believe.
They need an army of pawns and believe men suit better the job.