Originally Posted by
CoffeeGrunt
Y'know doaboarder, you came across as a troll on 3++, but you occasionally seemed to be intelligently trying to advocate something. Now you're just putting your fingers in your ears and shouting, "lalalalala, hypocrites, hypocrites, lalalalala!!"
um....ok?
As far as women in combat, the physical demands are a fair, scientifically-supported fact. However, it's not impossible for a woman to become at least sufficient for the levels set down for men. Not every soldier is an Adonis, after all. Opening up this avenue of recruitment adds a whole extra pool of recruitment to tap into in dire need. It would make sense to have a system able to use women on the battlefield, because we've seen that when the crap hits the fan, women end up killed by invaders anyway. May as well build a system where those who want a chance to defend their country can do so on the same terms as a guy can.
Hell, we're seeing this attitude with the actually pretty amusing Kurdish women fighting ISIS, and apparently putting the shivers up them by not only killing them, but taking their right to paradise away.
The protectiveness thing, the unit cohesion and morale? These are all responses to seeing women as a thing to protect, not another person. Arguably, soldiers are bred into it a little more than the average guy, as they often advertise to fight for the girl you've got back home, so you can return as a hero and know all the bad things done were to keep her and your kids safe.
But why can't a woman do the same thing? We have to consider how much of what we consider to be absolute truth, are just gender role 'laws' no more concrete than religious laws telling us how to live our life. People have fought against these 'absolute truths' for centuries, and if that isn't proof they're a load of crap, I don't know what is.
There was a really good quote from Cracked about how we should stop treating each other as conquests and prizes in relationships, and consider them more of a two-way deal between two people. Can't find it at the moment, though.