I'm curious. Is this something that you two are in favor of (women in combat) and don't want to see it discussed?
I've been here several years and haven't seen too many threads on it. The first time I discussed it was a week ago on a thread regarding torture of prisoners, and a woman responded to my one anti women in combat post by accusing me of "hijacking" the thread. Being that half the threads on FR had greater divergences somewhere in them from the original topic, her reaction looked out of proportion, indicating a concern that her values might come under attack here.
From my experience, your opposition to this being discussed seems out of proportion as well. Is that the case with you two? Are you very much in favor of women being thoroughly integrated into the services?
I haven't seen anyone - *anyone* - use Jessica Lynch "to promote their theory that men and women soldiers are the same" as the article says.
Jessica is being used, but not by anyone pushing for women in all combat roles... She is being used by those against women serving at all in the military, in some kind of "Oh my God we can't let this girl be considered a hero or we are all sunk" kind of pre-emptive attack. It's unseemly.