Germany to send out survey, mandatory for males, about willingness to fight
13 points by acadapter 15 hours ago | 7 comments
  • fxtentacle 15 hours ago |
    After all of their successes in making gender-neutral language mandatory in all government documents, I'm hoping that there'll be a feminist outrage about this. This should be gender-neutral, too, meaning mandatory for everyone.

    I mean it's just a mandatory paper questionnaire. There's no harm in asking young women about their opinion, too.

    • MrHamburger 13 hours ago |
      From what I have understood, problem is that Germans would need to change the constitution to allow women to be mandatory drafted too. But that's not gonna happen because you usually needs something like 2/3rd of whole government to agree on that.
  • mistrial9 15 hours ago |
    must be filled out with two copies and the correct account details ?
    • dx034 15 hours ago |
      And sent back by fax.
  • bell-cot 14 hours ago |
    Location, Location, Location:

    Germany, population ~82M, has about 180K active duty military

    Poland, population ~38M, has about 250K active duty military

    Finland designates >90% of its fit-for-service males (age 16-49) as military reservists

    (all per Wikipedia)

  • numewhodis 13 hours ago |
    Despair.
  • gus_massa 12 hours ago |
    I don't understand how can this work. Is it the shame of marking the "nein" checkbox?