The White House Says Women Should Be Required to Register for the Military Draft

[Warren DeMontague]

76. Personally, I don't think we should have a registration for the thing, at all.

For one, an actual draft is politically untenable and has been since 1972, so the purpose of the exercise is questionable, at best.

Two, the notion of a draft is wrong. It was wrong during Vietnam when the Boomers were opposed to it, it's still wrong even though many of them seem to secretly think it might not be such a bad idea for the "special snowflake" millennials who take 30 seconds too long to call their name with their latte at Starbucks.

Third, and in the same vein, personally I think the track record of the US in terms of moral authority and military adventurism since at least Korea is so shitty, they simply can't be trusted with the absolute authority to drag young Americans off to war against their will, ever again.

And I'm all for the ERA. Should have passed in the 70s.

But you didn't answer my question, which is, assuming the ERA doesn't come back to life and get passed; how exactly do we maintain the status quo- namely, "men" register, "women" don't, if we have moved beyond gender binary categories? Specifically.