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People who argue that a wife owes obedience to her husband. And incidentally sex.
Using a sex example would kind of ruin the point of having an analogy at all.
You're right. How about: people who claim I owe three years' servitude at risk of life and limb, in the service of "my country".
(Actually, that should be "owed", because they did get what they wanted. But that distracts from the analogy.)
That might be analogous, but I have never lived in any location that drafts women and I have an unusually strong negative reaction to the idea of military service in general, and so I can't know for sure.
Israel does, although it's possible for women to get out of it if they really try.
Then the analogy serves it's purpose, doesn't it?
Not precisely. I don't have an intense negative reaction to the idea of sex in general, after all.
Military service is generally understood to be coercive, so you're right to have a negative reaction to it (and so do I). Volunteer-only armies are extremely rare exceptions - far more rare than rape is compared to sex.
Really? I suspect a lot of young Americans would view the idea of coerced military service as another one of those bizarre practices from the distant past.
Which only goes to show that they don't read their own history books about drafts, or newspapers about stop-loss policies and the National Guard deployments.
Some may not read history, but it doesn't follow from what I said. They may know very well that the draft existed in the past.
(I've noticed that a lot of people old enough to remember e.g. Vietnam have trouble accepting that we're in a different historical era now; they often speak in a way that suggests they think the draft could easily be brought back, when in fact the political reality is such that that's extremely unlikely.)
National Guard service is voluntary, and stop-loss concerns people already signed up.
Israelis have a different perspective.
I realize that. In fact I was specifically calling attention to the difference in perspectives.