Actually, if you read the article, she is calling for HIGHER standards for women earlier in their testing, not lower standards. The lack of high standards earlier means women aren’t being conditioned for success. Her second point seems like something I’d want to confirm, however:
“She called specifically for holding women to higher physical fitness standards earlier on in their training and also for women to be given the opportunity to take the course a second time if they fail the first attempt — an opportunity which men have always been allowed.”
“Actually, if you read the article, she is calling for HIGHER standards for women earlier in their testing, not lower standards.”
If the military had those higher, tougher standards for training and testing for women earlier, they would get complaints (and likely lawsuits) that the physical fitness standards for women are too high and discriminatory.
I bet ultimately they will end up dropping their physical fitness standards for everyone (men and women) and then we can all be happy pretending that the average woman is equal in strength to the average man.