I’m going to be blunt: I’m over 50 years old and could easily beat most females in a physical confrontation. Easily. Not that I ever would engage in a physical confrontation with a female except in self defense purposes. (Actually had to do so once — she was nuts and I just restrained her until she calmed down. Didn’t even call the cops.)
20 years of martial arts and dance (it’s not that dissimilar. It’s all about control of your body and movement. Walk about 2 miles per day to stay fit, etc. Comes in handy, for example the last time I intervened in a mugging near my apartment about 3 months ago.
However I have met women who could take me apart. One was an ex-girlfriend and retired US Marine. I outweighed her by almost 50 pounds and at the time had 10 years of martial arts under my belt. She was a very pretty blue eyed blonde. She could have shredded me. Just plain strong, wiry, and Marine trained — as a campus area rapist found out one day. All the blood in her apartment was his, not hers. He died in prison after serving part of a very long sentence.
I’d rather have her with me in a combat situation than any male snowflake.
Take away: Maintain the standards. If a woman meets them and wants to fight, let her. Yeah, I know about issues regarding sexual tension, but the Israelis appear to handle them OK so lets take a page out of their book.
That said, if the women do not meet the standards, don’t let them in.
Sorry, have a typo:
20 years of martial arts and dance (it’s not that dissimilar. It’s all about control of your body and movement.
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20 years of martial arts and dance (it’s not that dissimilar. It’s all about control of your body and movement.)
“but the Israelis appear to handle them OK so lets take a page out of their book.”
You need to be aware Israel stopped putting women in line units, in combat roles. All the socio-physical arguments we put forth the Israeli’s dealt with them and now assign females to support roles. Of course, they also discovered more soldiers were hurt or died when sub-human muslims discovered the unit they are facing has Jewish FEMALES in it. Argh. . . to be captured by a Jewish female would be a monumental insult so they fought on, harder, to avoid being captured by a Jewish female.
There are no women in Israeli combat units - when it was tried it was a huge failure The women do other jobs.
I thought the whole objection was that the overwhelming number of women couldn’t meet the standards, and that even for those who could, it made little sense to alter the field accommodations for what would never be more than a handful of people.