forcing people to join the military against their will is tyrannical fascist bullshit to begin with and fascism and discrimination kind of go hand and hand, it's not like a fascist regime is going to try to be fair and egalitarian when they are dragging people out of their homes and forcing them to go fight in a war and get blown to smithereens and to sit here and pretend otherwise is just obtuse. it would be like debating over whether or not serial killers ought to be less discriminatory in their killings and not just target black people or immigrants or homeless people.
the more interesting and important discussion we should be having is about why governments discriminate the way they do when it comes to military draft or recuitment, why they choose the particular people they target, i.e. young males who are not rich or white. the race and class element are pretty self-explanatory, but why young males? most people will probably say it's because 18 year old boys are more physically fit for military service and have greater strength and stamina and dexterity than older men or women, but is that really the reason?
anyone who has worked at any job requiring physical labor knows that 18 year old boys tend to be pretty terrible at everything, weak and clumsy and constantly screwing up and breaking things and injuring themselves and getting tired and having to take frequent breaks and complaining and whining all the time. men reach the peak of their physical ability in their late 20s to mid 30s, not in their late teens. and an untrained skinny teenage boy is about as useless as an untrained skinny teenage girl when it comes to running long distances or carrying heavy equipment or climbing over obstacles. so it's not really about physical ability.
i think it's really about psychological malleability more than anything else, which is primarily a function of emotional maturity. women emotionally mature faster than men do, women tend to reach full emotional maturity by their 30s whereas men don't reach full emotional maturity until their 40s. everyone knows what teenage boys are like, any man can remember what he was like when he was 18 years old - essentially a confused, insecure, scared, naive, extremely sensitive and impressionable child desperately seeking validation and approval from others and wanting very badly to fit in and be accepted and be recognized, particularly by some kind of parental father figure. in other words, the idea
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