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Originally Posted by ptsdkid However, I am dead set against women in combat units, and to a lesser degree, unhappy and marginally concerned about women obtaining any military occupation especially during wartime. I’m all for women assuming a non-military Rosie the Riveter type role during wartime. |
Yes, let's just go back to the times when women were mainly barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen....no thanks.
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Wasn’t it a woman that wrote a bestseller titled, “Men are from Battleship Galactica, Women are from Love ship Greenpeace?” I may have gotten the title wrong but the theme of the book acknowledged that women are better emotionally equipped to handle the tribulations of a soap opera saga from couch side, rather than squeezing the trigger of an M-16 rifle at an approaching enemy soldier while standing and trembling inside of a foxhole.
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The only book I can think of that comes even close to anything like that would be "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus", and that was written by a man. You really should read it, it's quite excellent. That aside, I know that I at least could shoot an M-16 better than a lot of the males in my unit. I'm certainly not much of a soap opera person. Like I said in my previous post, I think women are more emotionally stable than men, but none of that has any relevance here.
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Aside from a few lady wrestlers and a handful of masculine lesbian butches--the biological makeup of most women makes demanding combat roles an impossibility.
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Really? Do you have a study supporting this?
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I remember humping a 75 pound rucksack up the treacherous mountainside of the A-Shau Valley in Vietnam during hot climate and high humidity. I also carried a 22-24 pound M-60 machine gun, heavy ammo belts, and weighty water canteens. There were a couple of effeminate cherries that caved in to the strenuous demand. Those guys were quickly shuffled back to REMF status at our base camp. The point being with everything unfair and unequal in war and body structure--I see no way for a woman (any woman) to have been able to proceed in that combat setting--let alone survive it.
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So let's see here....We'll say you're carrying about 150 lbs there. I can think of many women that could handle that and then some, and they're not professional weight lifters, wrestlers, or "masculine lesbian butches".
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Bill Clinton helped bring political correctness and e-masculinity into the United States military. With the advent of the total acceptance of gays in the military during his administration and the emasculation thereof--women could now call on their feminist sisters to help complete the feminization of our military, you know, with their equal rights agenda and all.
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Ummm...Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The military instituted a "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Meaning, homosexuals can't be openly homosexual, and cannot engage in homosexual activities. And women have been a part of the military since....oh, about 1941-1943-ish. Look it up.
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With young men’s hormones in a constant uproar, and the availability of women troops to satisfy their needs--the role of a militarily focused warrior had now transferred to the role of a wanton sex-craved young man.
With rapes, women troops getting pregnant, and incidents like the Tail hook Affair--sensitivity and further emasculation classes for young men were in order. Training to kill for combat now took a back seat for a new protocol featuring the sensitive, caring, and peaceful demeanor of all new male recruits.
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If men can't keep it in their pants, they have a severe problem. Most men I knew in the military didn't have a problem serving side by side with women.....INCLUDING men that were in Iraq with female counterparts.
And this training? It's called sexual harrassment. And EVERYONE goes through it, not just males.
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The president of the United States is our CIC (Commander-in-Chief) of our combat units. Knowing a woman’s emotional handicap and inability to function properly in a combat setting--doesn’t it alarm you to the possibility of having Hillary as our CIC overseeing all operations of our combat personnel? I have no problem with having Condi Rice assume the position of CIC, for she acts like she owns a complete set with her brilliant performance as Secretary of State. Just because Hillary looks like a man does not mean that she possesses the emotional nerve needed to be a military leader--let alone our CIC.
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Again, I'd like to see some sort of source for this so-called "emotional handicap". Women are just as capable of running things, maybe even more so, because we tend to be more efficient and more organized. And have you ever REALLY pissed a woman off? Not a pretty sight.
A lot of your posts seem to have quite a sexist overtone. Why do you exude such disdain for women? You seem to think that we're not as good as men in many different areas, which simply isn't true. Yes, there may be things that we can't do that you can, but there are also things we CAN do that you can't...and I'm not just talking about childbirth, either.