RE: Men are better than women in combat
September 11, 2015 at 5:19 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2015 at 5:20 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(September 11, 2015 at 5:02 am)Napoléon Wrote:(September 11, 2015 at 4:54 am)ignoramus Wrote: Watching tennis US open now, why do woman have best of 3 sets?
Because as a general rule they don't have the stamina to go a 5 hour 5 set marathon ...
Nothing wrong with that. It's our evolution.
Right, that logic might be okay for tennis, but it doesn't cut it in a scenario where you have a squad whose lives are dependent on your own stamina.
This is what people don't seem to be getting.
The solution isn't to give women lowered standards to adhere to in the name of equality IMO. It's to hold them to the same standards as everyone else and if they meet them, fantastic, if not, just like if a man couldn't meet it, tough shit.
And not only that. In the field of combat, physical prowess gets center-stage, but the fact is that in that same field of combat, such ineluctables as leadership and fight are at least as important, not to mention the cultural differences which add value to women being the point-of-contact, or (ahem) our own social programming which leads women to find different solutions to tactical problems which might not occur to men.
A woman might be weaker, yet more willing to fight; a woman might be buff, but because of social programming be more adaptable to talking with locals. Not everything, even in the infantry boils down to muscle, especially in this day.
