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If it's any comfort to you, I am a feminist, I have nephews in their 20s, and I oppose a draft. Military conscription is an improper attempt to control another person's body and labor -- just like slavery.
I also oppose most restrictions on abortion for the same reason. Women also have a right to control their own bodies and determine what direction their efforts will take.
You seem to have issues with feminists. Maybe you should examine whether or not the tendency is for conservatives to attempt to control people's individual choices and for certain types of liberals to do this as well -- generally for their "own good" or for the "larger welfare" of course.
Liberals who don't believe that everything can be engineered, libertarians who recognize the value of a safety net but not the right to use force against people, and conservatives of a civil libertarian stripe all recognize that individuals count, that individuals have rights.
Feminism has little to do with this. Feminism is merely about promoting the rights of women. It is not some complicated plot to enslave men do die on the battlefield.
