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Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist
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RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist
(March 9, 2016 at 4:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Good god, I hope not.  I had my concerns about that back when the idea was first floated seriously.  Now that integration has become a reality the service is making changes.  The marines, for example, postponed their deadline for integration while they changed their physical fitness standards to be the same for men and women.  This does mean that fewer women will pass (plenty of men fail too), they'd been traditionally held to a much, much lower standard.  Hopefully the other branches do the same..otherwise they're setting women (and our armed forces) up to fail both in their careers and on the battlefield.

I agree.  For combat roles all should be held to the same standard.

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RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by ignoramus - March 9, 2016 at 6:59 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 7:04 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 7:11 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 7:18 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 7:30 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 7:40 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 7:44 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 7:55 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by ignoramus - March 9, 2016 at 7:19 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Ben Davis - March 9, 2016 at 7:59 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 8:04 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 8:08 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 8:25 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Ben Davis - March 9, 2016 at 8:32 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by brewer - March 9, 2016 at 8:30 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 9:23 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Redbeard The Pink - March 9, 2016 at 10:44 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Mermaid - March 9, 2016 at 9:12 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 9:17 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 9:25 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 9, 2016 at 9:51 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Jenny A - March 9, 2016 at 9:57 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Grand Nudger - March 9, 2016 at 10:28 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Grand Nudger - March 9, 2016 at 10:32 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Grand Nudger - March 9, 2016 at 10:38 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Grand Nudger - March 9, 2016 at 12:51 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Minimalist - March 9, 2016 at 1:23 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Valkyrie - March 9, 2016 at 2:18 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Joods - March 9, 2016 at 3:09 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Valkyrie - March 9, 2016 at 3:22 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Valkyrie - March 9, 2016 at 4:22 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Redbeard The Pink - March 9, 2016 at 10:52 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Redbeard The Pink - March 10, 2016 at 8:46 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by robvalue - March 10, 2016 at 8:48 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Redbeard The Pink - March 10, 2016 at 8:49 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 10, 2016 at 9:35 am
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by dyresand - March 10, 2016 at 3:41 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Valkyrie - March 10, 2016 at 5:44 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Little lunch - March 10, 2016 at 12:42 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Grand Nudger - March 10, 2016 at 5:48 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by The Grand Nudger - March 11, 2016 at 1:18 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Alex K - March 11, 2016 at 3:53 pm
RE: Why 'Women's Sports' is sexist - by Jenny A - March 12, 2016 at 1:08 am

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