So biases are now different and it is a bias because in your view women have changed.
Have you ever served in combat and had women about?
You are completely missing my point.
No, I have not served in combat, nor would I ever have quailed for SF. Of course, 99% of men would not either.
My point is that the biases of the genders have changed since most folks on this forum have served.
If you are telling me your service, in combat in the last five years or so included women, then I will defer to your experience.
MY experience, dealing with college aged athletes across the spectrum from small schools to large schools shows me that many of the barriers that used to be in place when I was that age have changed. The deference to women is there, but the degree is much different. The high level athletes do not give each other any quarter.
Are they capable to operate under stress? I don’t know. Could they carry a man larger than them? Some could. Would I trust them with my life? Some of them, yes.
This is my point: women at that level do not come across as anything other than serious competitors. The men, at that high level, will play them as equals and not see them as helpless baby makers. The equality issues have been pounded into them since kindergarten.
I am not talking about your average coed. I am not talking about “girly girls.” I am talking about peak athletes with a competitive nature far superior to most men I know.
That is my experience and where I am “coming from.”