(September 10, 2015 at 11:00 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(September 10, 2015 at 10:48 pm)SmootherPebble Wrote: Of course there are women who can do it, but they are few and far between.
The fact is that women aren't held to the same standards as men, by a long shot, when it comes to the general military. I won't have so much of an issue if they tested the individual instead of the gender, and tested for specific roles... some of which might be more advantageous for women.
On the argument of disunity. Even if some women meet the same standards, the fact is that something like 90% of all women in the military are sexually harassed at some point and 40% are raped at some point. With the exception of physiological ability and marksmanship, disunity is the single worst thing to have in combat.
The general military doesn't go into combat. From military.com
Quote: About 80 percent of the jobs in the military are non-combat occupations.
So I don't really get your point. The very few girls who have made it into combat positions did go through the same tests as the men. The ones who didn't go into combat did not because it's not necessary for their made up bullshit jobs, same with most of the men in the military. It seems like you are basically arguing for the system that exists now. You don't need to be able to run a whatever minute mile to file paperwork.
I'm well aware, you don't need to list off facts. I was in the military myself for 3 years.
Read the content again. This has nothing to do with women in the military, it has to do with women in front line combat roles. Women have been in the US military since the American Revolution and have had the legal right to for about 60 years.
