ValentineWiggin wrote:
Someone more intelligent than I,
please explain to me why some conflate "equal" with "identical", outside mathematical proofs.
I'm serious.
I wonder the same thing about feminists sometimes, which is why I asked the Olympics question.
Here is an example of what I'm rather poorly trying to say.
In the military men and women have to meet different fitness requirements with the male requirements being quite a lot tougher. Special forces don't recruit women. Most militaries allow women to serve in support roles but not as front line troops.
Research into PTSD over the last 20 years has shown that when exposed to the same level of combat, women are 3 times more likely to suffer from PTSD than men are.
To balance things out a little, UN research into it's troop deployments as peacekeepers shows that women do an excellent job in peacekeeping roles. They are less corrupt, they generally don't rape people and they are trusted more by the local population, especially the native female population.
The question is this, do you really think it is a good idea to demand women be put into front line elite units where people are expected to be able to do things like the Falklands yomp?
In case you are wondering, when Britain recaptured the Falkland Islands the parachute regiment and the royal marines had to do a forced march across hilly/boggy terrain carrying 60kg-80kg of gear without sleep and while under enemy fire. Oh and they also had to fight and win a war against an enemy with superior numbers that had been given months to dig in and plant lots of mines.
What exactly is the point of feminists making an issue of the recruitment policy of the military when clearly there are so few women physically capable of doing what the job entails it would be a waste of money even opening the recruitment process to them.
Why exactly do you feel the need to show 'feminist solidarity' when someone claiming to be a feminist loses the plot and starts demanding absurd things like this or that 'all sex is rape' etc etc etc