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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 117 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Surely the army would conscript them to a cybersecurity red team?

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

military bad, draft bad.

but, yhea, gender discrimination is also bad. not sure if finding roles for them in the system is progress.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the classic "is it progress if women are smoking" dilemma.

We have non-binary drone pilots, diversity

or We can have women war criminals, bossgirl feminism.

[–] zombyreagan@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think the joke is that at least in the west there is a very high amount of people in the tech industry who are trans.

I got that part, the "programmer socks".

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Also in military intelligence for that reason. At least if my veteran friends are telling the truth

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 17 points 2 weeks ago

Don‘t think they have enough striped unix-socks.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 16 points 2 weeks ago

The NSA wishes they could harness that kind of power

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago

Draft tends to apply to men only, so they probably can't conscript them, even if they want to.

Here in Germany, men can get drafted, even during peace time, while women can only be required to work in healthcare during a war.