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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
my suggestion would be to allow females in the combat-units IF THEY CAN MAKE THE CUT. I would even be in favor of raising physical/mental fitness standards to weed out the weaker males for the women who can truly succeed in that environment.
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Oops... remind me not to vote for you, or I think I would be looking for a new career!
Those standards are tough enough as-is, thank you very much. Any tougher, and I doubt I would make it.
Not to get into a statistics battle, but:
Assuming that the physical fitness of men and women are distributed normally, and that Men are a full standard deviation higher than women, you still have a good proportion of women that are in better shape than some men!
Raising the standards is always a good idea.