Posted on 02/27/2009 9:14:27 AM PST by Sherman Logan
Today, nearly every action flick has a “combat chick” who regularly and consistently tosses 250 lb men around like a human Travis the chimp. We are constantly informed as to how their is no real distinction between men and women in ANY arena, and the implication that there might be a differential ability for men and women in the arena of hand to hand combat is sexist and discriminatory.
I have always believed that EVERYONE should maximize their defense capability, and as a police insructor and National Guardsman, I instructed my fellow women Officers and soldiers in hand to hand combat. After 3 decades of doing this, and speaking to innumerable others in the field, I acknowledged a nearly universal truth that even well trained and fit women are often at a disadvantage against strong, even relatively untrained men. That is simply a reality, and no amount of political correctness will change that.
I say all this to note the tension between modern mores and our traditional notions of chivalry vis a vis women. Of course a savage attack like Chris Brown’s is verboten in any era (unless you are an Islamonazi) but a challenge over a lady’s honor strikes me as so quaint in an era of cultural marxism and radical feminism ascendent.
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