I think the only way you're going to resolve it is by having women killed in action.
sorry, but it's how it's worked for the isrealis. They've realised they're all in it together.
As for a woman's capabilities? Ever come between a mother and her cubs?
What we face is something that's been done ever since mankind started drawing up rules about fighting.
For centuries, farmer and lower classes were prevented from fighting. Not because they were crap at it, or they died easily or because of feelings between soldiers. It was because they had not been trained in a social code from birth as to their role in time of war.
They didn't know when to give quarter, or to expect honourable action toward them in time of defeat.
The current warrior classes felt that as a fighting force they were unreliable when held to their own standards and attitudes towards the act of war.
They were not able to feel that the warriors themselves would be able to rely on the enemy to accept an honourable surrender or take them hostage. It was concern for their own safety and position in society that made them refuse the role of fighting to those of the farming class.
Modern Western fighting men aren't debilitated because of physical weakness in the women of their unit, but rather more in the personal weakness with which they regard those women and their own social attitudes towards them, whether derogatory or protective.
As I said, it'll take time and some women dying and fighting in order for modern western man to accept women as equals in the military role.
Last edited by WillyPete; 05-20-2005 at 04:48 AM..
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