Personally, i'd prefer to keep women out of the frontline bog standard (not to sound insulting, but my military terminology isn't up to scratch) units because one can almost guarantee that men in there may not be thinking entirely straight about things when women are around.
In higher trained units, where everyone is there to do exactly what they have to do and you've been through serious shit to get there, i'm ok with that. The women have proven they can be just as tough as the men, and more power to them for doing it. Then men in those units are more likely to treat and view them as they would other male soldiers.
Unfortunatly we don't live in a perfect world. However much we may not like it, sexism DOES exist, and when you have a bunch of guys with guns, the testosterone present is going to cause issues, big and small. Men are genetically programmed to know they are bigger and stronger than women, and western men also are socially programmed to be chivalrous (it's a generalisation i know, but once again i can't think of the right word) towards women and not fight alongside them. History has always been fought with men, and you can't change centuries of views overnight.
I have no doubt that women are capable fighters, and can do just as good a job as men, but what i do doubt is at this present moment in time integration isn't going to occur smoothly throughout the entire armed forces.
Women on the frontline will work, just not now.
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Last edited by stevie667; 05-19-2005 at 07:56 AM..
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