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Old 09-22-2015, 01:42 PM   #31
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Ronda is a great fighter but I doubt her ability to carry a 6'2 200+# male soldier while both are wearing 90# of gear across a football field in any sort of reasonable time.
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Old 09-23-2015, 09:18 AM   #32
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Perhaps with more females involved over time, the goals of the military might change.

Perhaps over the course of several hundred years there might be less wars, or more wars because of the inclusion of women in the military. America might be relatively more secure and American's might have a relatively better standard of living in ways that aren't currently apparent.

It is possible that women in the battlefield might cause the enemy to behave differently. They might be more aggressive, they might try to capture the women. If they try to capture the women it would effect the timing of the fight, which can play a big role in the outcome. Perhaps they would delay and this would provide time for critical reinforcements to arrive to support American operations in some pivotal battle.

If they were aware that females were in opposite entrenchments, maybe the "enemy" would be emboldened and try to run over American troops; maybe this would result in the death of American troops, maybe it would get them all killed.

Some general might decide to walk past a table of ladies in the mess hall to have a look at them instead of heading directly back to his office. Maybe he would miss a phone call that would alter how things turn out. Maybe the person on the other end of the line wanted to talk about drone strikes, but the phone call is missed and their sick kid is diagnosed with cancer and he's out of the office for a week taking care of his family and the drone strikes either don't happen or are delayed.

Those are some things that could happen, and an infinite number of other outcomes are also possible.
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Old 10-03-2015, 09:08 AM   #33
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Old 10-03-2015, 02:23 PM   #34
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The article is definitely not a science piece. It does contain simplifications and opinion.

But I honestly don't agree with you that gender is irrelevant, even within performance to a specific standard for a number of reasons;

#1 Gender is an objective standard in itself. Men and women are not interchangeable. No doubt some women are stronger than some men. No doubt some men have a stronger instinct for nurture than some women. None of that changes the fact that men and women have specific, biologically defined roles. There is some overlap in some areas. While you or I can't nurse babies, we can provide nurture. While any woman can be trained to defend or attack with physical force, the top 90% of women would be scarcely able to overcome the bottom 10% of men in physical combat. This difference is, if anything, magnified at elite levels of fitness.

#2 Even among women who are able and willing to perform at elite physical levels alongside male warriors and athletes, injury will be much more prevalent. Testosterone is not unimportant. Neither is body structure.

#3 Pregnancy matters. Ask anyone in a military branch with significant percentage of enlisted women if pregnancy is affecting combat readiness.

#4 Men don't perform in the same ways when women are present. At least a quarter of the men will be thinking of chasing tail when a woman is present in a small cadre. The fact that this perhaps ought not to be does not change what it is.

The present fascination with asserting the equivalence of men and women is a silly fad. It's not objectively true in any measurable way. Everyone understands this at some level, despite whole generations of PC brainwashing in schools, guvermunt, and popular culture.

Nobody gets to have it all. Angelina Jolie certainly looks marvelous in skin-tight clothes while she womps butt on bad guys. But the objective fact is that Lara Croft would be broken like a pretty teacup in any contest with even a moderately trained male adversary.
Does #4 matter anymore? We now have totally open acceptance of homosexuals in the military (in fact we have one who is running it)...

So would we not expect the same type of "distractions" associated with sexual attraction to be occurring within the "all male" groups as well?
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Old 10-03-2015, 04:21 PM   #35
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Sad, but true.
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Old 12-05-2015, 10:21 AM   #36
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Old 12-21-2015, 04:35 PM   #37
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Contrary to all common sense, human decency, and morality.

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Old 12-21-2015, 06:18 PM   #38
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Contrary to all common sense, human decency, and morality.

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But alas, population control is exactly their aim, as documented in their play book manuscript "Agenda 21 and 30".
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But critics say it can backfire with female recruits not being held to the same physical standards as their male counterparts.
Right. Because we all know female recruits are held to the same physical standards in track, baseball, softball, the NFL, UFC............

It's the secret to a winning team, don't you know?

It's a very special time to be an American. At the same time the Democrat / Republican imperialists in DC have us headed on rails for WWIII, the femenazis and sodomizers have been working especially hard to emasculate the military.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Relevant;

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I read something a while back about the testosterone levels in the average WWII soldier and the average testosterone in todays soldier. We are headed to an all women military via evolution. Todays average young man is a pussy.
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