>As a man in society you are always tasked with providing and protecting.

This is patriarchal nonsense. You are working from a sexist premise. Men are not required to provide and protect except by sexists. Men and women do not have different rights and responsibilities.

Also being against the draft as a concept does not mean a child’s understanding of the duties of citizens to the society in which they live. If citizens feel they have a genuine responsibility to defend their nation from attack then they will volunteer and a draft is irrelevant. Forced service is not “an individual’s responsibility”.

What’s childish? The draft does not exist in many countries, including my own. The idea of the draft is a nonsense that doesn’t understand that training and equipment matters far more than number of bodies. An untrained masse is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house. How does any of this relate to rights and responsibilities?

If Anglo Saxon blood defines English then the Welsh are more English than the English, who are more French.

And yes if you were born in India and have an Indian passport then you are Indian. The UK has a large population of south Asian heritage and those people are just as British as everyone else. Claiming anything otherwise is outright racism.

There’s war now. There’s no draft in many countries.

Well no, because there wasn’t any evidence of that. Where there was lots of public evidence of conservative members rejecting Sunak for not being British enough. There was a caller into LBC the other day trying to argue that Sunak (born in England) was less English than Boris Johnson (born in USA) for example.

Nobody on the left was saying Truss shouldn’t get the job because of her gender. They were saying she shouldn’t get the job because she was a disaster about to fuck the economy. Which she did.

And it’s breathtaking irony from you in playing identity politics against the left when the reason the conservative members voted for Truss over Sunak was largely his skin colour…

You do not need to provide a reason for aborting in many countries where abortion is legal.

That this was forced diversity rather than just having elected even numbers of men and women. There’s no quota or agenda, this is just individual parliamentary elections leading to a 50/50 ratio.

I always wonder why people complaining about discrimination against men always bring up the draft, as if the obvious solution isn’t just “get rid of it, it’s archaic and ridiculous” rather than “yeah send women to war too!!”

What’s more, in politics you’re supposed to be representing the population and addressing their issues. It’s an area where diversity for diversity’s sake actually does matter - it is harder for people who have not experienced issues to fully understand them and what’s needed. The fact that elected representatives tend to be older, mostly male, mostly from well off backgrounds, mostly white etc in many countries is why policies tend to suit those demographics more than others, and why legislation on issues such as revenge porn (being technological and affecting mostly young women) tends to take a long time to be realised.

I don’t really see it as hilarious. Frankly the flood of posts and comments going “see what happens when you let a woman lead” is pretty fucking depressing to me. The problem with Truss isn’t her gender it’s that she’s a fucking Tory and a fucking idiot.

Also people often have this notion about hiring as if it’s only about that filling that individual role and nothing else matters company wide. It’s not about hiring who is best at that one job, it’s about hiring who makes the company as a whole more money. And a diverse team of different ages, genders, races and backgrounds with a broader range of experiences will generally do better than a group of white men around the same age of the same sort of background. Factoring in the background and experiences of the person you’re hiring matters a lot, in the same way that you wouldn’t hire someone with no people skills that causes everyone else in the company to be miserable and drop their productivity just because they’re X amount better at their specific job than a different candidate.