Let's say that military drafting was changed and both men and women were forced to do military service.
- What's the first thought that pops up in your head?
Oh, but would the women be safe? What about sexual harassment or rape?
The military is so harsh and violent, too harsh an environment for women, they're not suited for it.
It's male territory and forcing females into it just gives the men the upper hand..
Those were some of my first thoughts, but isn't all that just misogynist logic? Making women into victims.
At the same time, to achieve gender equality are we going to make the men more feminine or the women more masculine?
The first thought that goes to my head is 'well, that's a war-hungry nation, and that's fucked'. Nothing like what you said. Which thoughts yes, I do think stem from a patriarchical influence on you. Not to say that I'm not worried about rape and sexual abuse in the military anyway, regardless of whether there's women there.
As to solving gender equality via making men more feminine and women more masculine, no such thing. Feminism won't be *making* anyone do anything. It's a matter of raising awarness on that gender roles are fabricated to a large extent and anyone who feels like stepping out of them will be safe and supported just as much legally and socially as anybody who thought themselves to be 'normal'. People will on their own start feeling more comfortable in their skin being what they are, that is the goal. Of course, after a long time, people will have adjusted out of customary aggressive masculine roles because those roles will not socially work as well as they did in the past; People will not recieve as much credit for fulfilling a stereotype. So there will be less 'masculine men' but not because anyone made them, but because a fairer world forgot about them.
Well, at least that's a nice fairytale. But if you're asking about the feminist endgame, you're going to get fairytales. Let's focus on stopping for rape now.
I'm against sex work because I can't imagine someone willing to have sex with anyone.
We all have preferences and sex is based on attraction. It's also extremely intimate and there can be psychological issues related to it.
Sex work is WORK. You should talk with a few sex workers who are proud of their work. Or at least go to one of their forums and lurk.
Uhm, how is that even remotely the same thing?
And if you get to pick and choose who you sell to, then any benefits -- like providing sex to people unable to get it on their own due to handicap or appearance -- that sex trade provides is gone.
They're not. There are people in the industry who will provide services to the people you mention without feeling oppressed or violated for it. In fact they will feel happy and that they have given to the world. Those are your sexual hangups.
Just because someone is willing to do something for money doesn't mean they want to do it or that it would be healthy for them..
This is why we should work so that the sex industry in our respective countries is transparent and well regulated, not that it is annihilated.