Re: Do you really think women in the Military want to risk their lives in combat?
And Gandhi's mountain was at least as high as this one.
I'm "dense". What do you expect? (over your head)
Ghandi didn't fight for a highly sexist agenda and demand that women have lower standards and be capable of less. You're literally the worst feminist on the planet. You go out saying women are equal, but demand that they aren't treated equal when it comes to responsibility and physical standards. It's disgusting.
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.
Women don't need to change their physiology, they just need to be able to DO THE ****ING JOB, a job of which you've continued to show you have no idea about.
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.
Mission dependent, but a standard load would be:
- Rifle
- At least 300 rounds of ammo for said rifle
- Body armor with full plates
- Grenades
- Flash light
- Knee pads
- Kevlar helmet
- Ruck sack
- 60 mm mortar rounds (they're divied up among the patrol)
- Gigantic radio batteries (also divied up among the patrol)
- At least a gallon of water
- Food for several days
- Change of socks and shirts
- IR beacon
- Small batteries
- Poncho liner (small, lightweight thermal blanket)
- Radio (if you're a radio operator. I was, it sucks ass because it's an extra 20+ lbs)
- Whatever the women don't want to carry (according to your plan)
This is just the bare minimum for an extended mission. There are other things that may be required. With this standard load out you're looking at well over 100 lbs. So take that, load it down on your body, then walk 20 kilometers through the rockiest mountains on the planet.
Perhaps you'd like the men to be the pack mules, while the women walk around with just a rifle. When the women need something they can just pick it off the back of the men. Equality my ass.
I'm sure people mocked Gandhi's idea of peace v violence. The British stopped mocking though, didn't they....
Once again, Ghandi wasn't a sexist bigot that believed that women should be the ruling class, like you. You don't want equal rights for women, you want them to have more rights.