Re: Do you really think women in the Military want to risk their lives in combat?
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
-Mahatma Gandhi
It's amazing what you can do when you are in a hostile/emergency situation.
And Gandhi's mountain was at least as high as this one.
LOL, in the same post that you say women are too weak to carry proper gear, and should have to carry less, you go on to say that women will end up carrying the bulk of the burden.
Jesus, you're just trolling now.
I'm "dense". What do you expect? (over your head)
While you go on and on and on with the futile, impractical and unrealistic assertion that because male proportions allow them to carry X weight, women must somehow change their physiology to be like men. Women are built differently and they are entitled to be what they are.
As to heavy lifting, based on male track records we all know how it will go. If men can get away with it, the women will eventually be dragging all of the kit while men will be standing about scratching their parts and making rude noises while talking a lot of crap about sports. I expect that's why you are so pissed that women can't carry more.
Have you lost track. We're talking about the military and women being able to pass physical fitness tests.
What is the point of you? You were talking about whether women can lift an injured soldier out of harm's way.
Are you being serious? This is getting to be so ridiculous that I can't tell anymore. Can anyone really be so dense? Yes, women can join, AS LONG AS THEY CAN PASS THE PHYSICAL FITNESS TEST. I put that in caps just for you, hoping you will be able to see it and understand it this time. They have to be able to carry their OWN gear, which ends up weighing a lot because there are a lot of things people need when they are out in the middle of nowhere. Do you understand that part? Also, if one of the bigger guys who could perhaps weigh over 250 pounds easily, goes down in a fire fight with the enemy and is in the danger zone, the women in the unit HAVE to be able to pull and/or carry this man out of danger's way. Part of being part of a unit is being able to defend, back up and rescue other people in your unit. Do you understand that?
This has been answered already. Pointless repeats are purely ignored.
Let's get down to what this is REALLY about.....
Who was he?
There's not much to choose between them, as I'm sure you know.
Oh, so even by your own reckoning, the infantry will be less-equipped and less-prepared because of it. Do you suggest they carry less ammo? Less life-saving gear?
No, try to keep up. Lighter and less are different.
What should be cut?
And then you say the only reason anyone could object to this is because men are stubborn pigs.
I simply cannot fit my mind into a point of view this comically narrow.
I'm crushed by your inability to see past the end of your nose. [/sarcasm]
Why don't you list the items in the kit you know so much about and I will help you work through them with helpful suggestions.
HOLDUP. you just said you work with sexist twits, then going off firing comments like "The only reason it will take time to do that is men are in control of the military and you need a jemmy to make men change anything.... "We don't like change. We just like men. Sir yes sir"..."
Is there a word of a lie in that comment?
Two separate contexts of strength.
I'm sure people mocked Gandhi's idea of peace v violence. The British stopped mocking though, didn't they....
