Patricia Schroeder is the scum that pushed this nonsense, now we have to live with it or change it. Women do not belong in front line combat anymore than men need to carry babies for nine months. (They are actually trying to accomplish that by the way)
Things that would have been laughed out of the room twenty years ago are now being taken as serious issues. The idea that Men had a responsibility to care for and protect women disappeared when LBJ's Great Society took hold.