Sisterhood and the SEALs

City Journal ^ | Heather Mac Donald

[ventanax5]

It was just a matter of time before the successful Navy SEAL operation against Osama bin Laden on May 1 provoked a complaint that SEAL teams are all-male. Sure enough, Washington Post pundit (and founder of the feminist website Jezebel.com) Anna Holmes came through last week with a column denouncing the “paternalistic, discriminatory” exclusion of women from special-operations units and comparing that exclusion to racial segregation. If you’d like to get a full picture of feminist thought today, just combine Holmes’s column with the ongoing farce at Yale University, which is under federal investigation for allegedly denying female students equal educational opportunities. Not only has the rise of women to positions of power and control in American society not dented feminist irrationality, it seems to have exacerbated that irrationality.

[Maigrey]

Even some of us are not that stupid to have women in forward combat areas, or even allow a try-out for special forces. The physical demands, along with the brutality needed, and the capture situations.... their lives, if captured by a foreign hostile group would be most unpleasant. Torture, rape, etc.

Keep women out. (and I am one!)

[GOPJ]

For feminists, however, the moribund concept of female modesty is just another sexist oppression designed to keep women down—except when we want to take offense and claim to be wounded by being treated as the sexual objects that we present ourselves as.

The writer of the piece is pretty realistic - sadly most women aren't...

[hadit2here]

These womyn couldn’t even get through a normal male fraternity Hell Week as a pledge, let alone get through basic Seal selection.

They whine and cry about being offended and discriminated against when the reality is they’re mentally and physically unsuitable for even getting through frat Hell Week. If they want to REALLY be equal and treated equally, then shut up about being offended, discriminated against and generally being pussies. Don’t let their alligator mouths overcome their hummingbird asses. If they can’t take a little frat boy prank without being soooooooo offended, they’re not gonna make it any place other than PC politics... and we all know just how mentally stunted that group is.

[lentulusgracchus]

When will we as a people stand up agains the secular elite that think they run this country?

When we elect Sarah Palin, a real woman's woman, who cheerfully admits a woman's physical limitations and is secure enough in herself to marry a man's man in Todd and bring forth another in Track.

And feed them both elk venison that she shot and dressed herself. "Elk -- it's what's for dinner!!"

Hoo-ahhh!

[lentulusgracchus]

These womyn couldn’t even get through a normal male fraternity Hell Week as a pledge, let alone get through basic Seal selection.

Remember Tailhook? "Oh, boo-hoo-hoo, he pinched me on the bubby! I think I feel a lawsuit coming on!"

Yeah, that's BUDS material -- a SEAL in the making!

[KosmicKitty]

A friend of mines son is in training to be SEAL

From what he told his dad so far, it ain’t easy.

There are a lot of things that men and women can both do well, but I don’t know how many women can go through no sleep for days while getting slapped in the face, and being psychologically abuse. (Training if they are ever captured)

Oh, and you have to trap and kill bunnies for food.

[antisocial]

That’s it thanks - I agree it was stupid!