Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!aero-c!nadel From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: The Draft (was: Sexism vs. Men's Oppression) Message-ID: <676659184@lime.cs.duke.edu> Date: 11 Jun 91 16:53:06 GMT References: <675716975@lear.cs.duke.edu> Sender: news@aero.org Organization: The Piranha Club Lines: 16 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Status: R Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org # Somehow, the feminists who try (and sometimes succeed) to give women # more opportunities in the army have very little to say/do/change about # the men-only registration for draft. In article jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes: > I suspect I'm better read on feminism than Hillel Gazit, and I >can honestly report that I've not seen one feminist document that >supports a male-only draft. They don't support male-only draft, they just don't care about the subject. > Radical feminism sprung out of the civil rights and anti-war >movements, and most radical feminists oppose the draft altogether. There was also a split between feminism and the anti-war movement, but feminist literature from the 80's tend to forget about that...