A rant on gender stereotypes

[The Grand Nudger]

I don't think that "being suited" confers immunity. So the presence or prevalence of PTSD wouldn't have much to say on the matter. Perhaps no amount of being suited - no intentional/unintentional breeding program for size, aggression and violence- no amount of post natal cultural reinforcement can actually prepare someone for seeing "what may be seen" or experiencing "what may be experienced". I suppose, IMO, that's the dividing line between potential and talent - in this particular business. As with any other profession, there are those who seem to have innate potential and yet fail to do well, while there are also those who seem to have no potential - who instead focus on their performance and see results. If I had to distill the situation, perhaps we're beyond the point were potential, or being suited, is sufficient oomph to get one passed the finish line. Pressing buttons, firing at shapes in the distance....neither of these things seem to require any gender specific or gender stereotypical skillsets or attributes. I bet there are women with potential to be soldiers, who aren't -and women with no potential but through training and discipline..are. Keep in mind, the vast majority of soldiers are not warfighters to begin with...so a broad inclusion will likely speak to things no one directly brought up. Less than a quarter of "soldiers" are trigger pullers.....and I;m pretty sure that being a cook doesn't require a penis, nor is a penis a job enhancing organ in that regard. Strangely...cooks get PTSD...lol. Carrots say the meanest things.