Women serving in frontline combat roles

[jimmy eat jazz]

Here's a link to an article on the topic and how the marines are leaning against it. I'm curious how others feel about this.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-marines-combat-jobs_55fc1392e4b08820d9183dd6

I see women in frontline combat roles as an inevitability given the logic of equal rights and the fact that women continue to exceed the bounds that men place on them, in every aspect, including physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, etc.

 

[fishonjazz]

Woman can pull a trigger as well as man imo

If wars were fought in hand to hand close quarters combat then I wouldn't want women on the front lines.

I do worry about what might happen to women who get captured though.... Could be some very bad things

 

[Jamezz]

Woman can pull a trigger as well as man imo

If wars were fought in hand to hand close quarters combat then I wouldn't want women on the front lines.

I do worry about what might happen to women who get captured though.... Could be some very bad things

I don't like it, some jobs are better suited for men and some are better suited for women.

 

[Siro]

I don't like it, some jobs are better suited for men and some are better suited for women.

That's true. My job as a freelance sperm donor is very ill-suited for a woman, for example. But it isn't relevant to the military.

 

[Jamezz]

That's true. My job as a freelance sperm donor is very ill-suited for a woman, for example. But it isn't relevant to the military.

Lol, good one.

 

[Stoked]

Women are just as capable of performing the tasks that men are in the military. Do not lower the standards for women but by all means let them enroll and train. just like the men, if they pass they are in. If not then no.

But even if the current style of war got back to hand to hand combat and trench warfare than we are more than likely going to need everyone we can get.

 

[Stifle Tower]

I do worry about what might happen to women who get captured though.... Could be some very bad things

If they choose to serve on the front lines, they assume that risk. And torture goes both ways. Men can have their genitals electrocuted and cut off; women can be raped. Don't mean to be callous. I am very much against women serving up front. But if feminist groups insist on equality, than the same groups should not be shocked or outraged when bad things happen. Nor should any extraordinary means be taken to negotiate or rescue someone due to gender.

 

[jimmy eat jazz]

If they choose to serve on the front lines, they assume that risk. And torture goes both ways. Men can have their genitals electrocuted and cut off; women can be raped. Don't mean to be callous. I am very much against women serving up front. But if feminist groups insist on equality, than the same groups should not be shocked or outraged when bad things happen. Nor should any extraordinary means be taken to negotiate or rescue someone due to gender.

And unfortunately, the US's adoption of torture as an instrument of State policy has severely eroded our moral authority to oppose it when other countries use torture against us.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

If they choose to serve on the front lines, they assume that risk. And torture goes both ways. Men can have their genitals electrocuted and cut off; women can be raped. Don't mean to be callous. I am very much against women serving up front. But if feminist groups insist on equality, than the same groups should not be shocked or outraged when bad things happen. Nor should any extraordinary means be taken to negotiate or rescue someone due to gender.

Pretty sure dudes got anuses and can get raped too. Equality.

 

[Siro]

Pretty sure dudes got anuses and can get raped too. Equality.

Yeah. Men's rights groups should stop bitching about anal rape if they want equality. Which I am very much against.

 

[fishonjazz]

I'm willing to bet that if some isis dude got a hold of an American female soldier she would be treated worse than a male American soldier would

 

[Miggs]

Not for this at all.