Posted on 04/17/2009 7:27:31 PM PDT by JoeProBono
More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War II. Over 206,000 have served in the Middle East since March 2003, most of them in Iraq. Some 600 have been wounded, and 104 have died. Yet, even as their numbers increase, women soldiers are painfully alone. In Iraq, women still only make up one in 10 troops, and because they are not evenly distributed, they often serve in a platoon with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the military's traditional and deep-seated hostility towards women, can cause problems that many female soldiers find as hard to cope with as war itself - degradation and sexual persecution by their comrades, and loneliness instead of the camaraderie that every soldier depends on for comfort and survival.
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“NO SHIT Shurlock!”
Men used to protect women - now they want to protect themselves and then complain when they get ostracized.
Tough cookies. Either you WANT to be a woman and to be treated as one - or you act like a man and get treated as one.
“Men used to protect women - now they want to protect themselves and then complain when they get ostracized.
Tough cookies. Either you WANT to be a woman and to be treated as one - or you act like a man and get treated as one.”
Amen. These women used to complain that they wanted to be treated like guys. When we finally treat them like guys, they then complain that we treat them like guys :?
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
I’m with you all the way, Marie. He would of course protect a young woman in trouble, even if she were theoretically there to guard his back.
And so much else. And the interviewee mentioned, ‘The told jokes about women that hurt my feelings.’ Makes me roll my eyes — ‘It is a WAR, cookie, not a University.’
We don’t have the upper body strength evidently. I can understand auxiliary work, desk jobs, and so forth, if one is bent on a military job; however, there were 4F men and always have been who can do those jobs. It’s just a whole lot radical feminism and stiff necks. It’s made mock men out of a lot of women and girls who aren’t happy and don’t know why.
bump for later.
A consequence of feminist corruption.
Why not just control the female quote to < 5%, that’ll be better, and try placing them in gender-segregated units.
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