(February 22, 2019 at 5:29 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 22, 2019 at 5:20 pm)Yonadav Wrote: Brian, it's a good thing that the military found you to be unsuitable for military service while you were in basic training. You think like a traitor and you probably would have ended up in a military prison. These women are enemy combatants--period.
I was unsuitable because of a lifetime of bullying prior to going in. So basically you are a sexist, in saying men are not allowed to show vulnerability? I was not mentally fit, but that has nothing to do with being a traitor.
Your attitude is why, even for those who do make it past basic, come back with PTSD and commit suicide or worse kill their spouse or others.
So your attitude is that girls are weak and men have to be Rambo?
So you have a problem with me admitting someone like Tammy Duckworth could do job she was mentally fit to do, and handled it, is less of a woman because I couldn't do the same thing? Was she playing the female card when she had her legs blown off?
Again, GENDER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ABILITY.
I am not ashamed of not being able to serve. Anymore than any female or male should be ashamed of any mental illness.
I'm terribly sorry to learn about your emotional scars due to bullying. All I'll say about that here is that I empathise due to shared experience.
I'm very uncomfortable with the word 'traitor', as I am with all political crimes. It's a very emotive term. I am also uncomfortable with trial by media. IE when all the facts one has are from media sources.
Sadly, in my country, having a mental illness or disability is still not really accepted. So you don't say anything
The Israeli Army uses females as combat soldiers, and has for decades. I consider that a logical extension of feminist principles. Being a combat soldier is yet another of those jobs for which having a penis is not a job requirement.
Mental illness is not about gender. Period.
