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[–]Vulptex[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

But we still confine men to certain roles no problem.

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Did you miss the other part of that sentence?

[–]Vulptex[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Combat is not the only thing the military does. And yet we still don't put women in those roles that they're perfectly capable of. The real reason is we're not as willing to risk the life of a precious woman as we are the life of just another man.

You also said that women should not be confined to roles based on their physiology (giving birth), but that men should be confined to them (conscription). That is the hypocrisy I'm talking about.

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We can acknowledge that men are more physiologically equipped for combat, and that women are able to give birth without confining them to roles based around that.

That looks grammatically passing to me to indicate that neither group should have to be held toward those roles.

[–]Vulptex[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It looks to me like "men should be conscripted because they're more capable of it, women should not be forced into childbearing even though they're capable of it".

I definitely don't think women should be forced to have babies, that's disgustingly authoritarian. However forcing men to fulfill certain roles isn't any better, we just don't care about it because of male expendability.