Throughout my life, I have been able to survive several dangerous/life-threatening situations; armed robbery, active shooter, flash flood, attempted sexual assault, to name the biggest ones.
Because of my experiences growing up, I was able to keep my wits and fight through it.
For example, in middle school I was jumped by five girls (one was a good six inches taller and 50 lbs. heavier) and sent all of them to the nurse’s office. It wasn’t the first girl I sent to the nurse and it wouldn’t be the last.
I was not a tough girl looking for trouble. I lived a quiet life but I refused to be cowed by bullies. Every bully that ever messed with someone in my presence or with me regretted it. I pummeled one so badly her family went to the police, attempting to file charges.
The guy who jumped me did so on my college campus in the middle of the day in the parking lot. I was in a leg cast from a knee injury and he must have thought I was an easy target. His mistake; my brothers taught me how to fight.
That being said, there is no way I would ever want to do hand to hand combat with someone like my husband. One punch from him would unquestionably dislocate my jaw (no, my husband has never raised a hand to me. He is a loving protector). Even at peak physical strength, I paled in comparison. For example, when we moved, he could easily pick up in his arms something that I would need to use my back and legs for.
My husband and I had a similar conversation today.
Men do not fight for abstract notions like “democracy.” They fight to protect their families. With so many women screaming about how they hate men and don’t need them, is it any surprise that men are turning away when they see a woman getting attacked? Handle it yourself, Boss Babe.
Anything that damages mission readiness and unit cohesion should be removed from our armed forces. Units should not be co-mingled. If the men are spending more time babysitting the women instead of completing the objective, that is a recipe for failure.
Good observations.
If women are the fighters then what is there for men to protect?
If a tribe is sending its childbearing-age women to die in battle then what future is there for that tribe and what are they fighting for anyway?
How would America have survived if half of its war dead in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War had been its young childbearing age females? Any mathematicians here?
"Brothers (plural) what are they today?
While in 1800 US women on average had 7 children had her first child around the age of 23 and proceeded to bear children at two-year intervals until her early 40s (more of whom died before reaching adulthood than now), and in the baby boom era the average was 3.6 kids (where children made up 36 percent, vs. 22:% now), yet by 2021 it was 1.6.6, and with the median age for giving birth hitting an unprecedented age 30.
Usually meaning women working outside the home, and more money to spend on meals outside the home thus less cooking (besides more spoiled kids, who have no or maybe just one sibling to learn how to get along with and share, thus more being unduly fearful and intolerant of others).
That being said, there is no way I would ever want to do hand to hand combat with someone like my husband. One punch from him would unquestionably dislocate my jaw (no, my husband has never raised a hand to me. He is a loving protector). Even at peak physical strength, I paled in comparison. For example, when we moved, he could easily pick up in his arms something that I would need to use my back and legs for. My husband and I had a similar conversation today Men do not fight for abstract notions like “democracy.” They fight to protect their families. With so many women screaming about how they hate men and don’t need them, is it any surprise that men are turning away when they see a woman getting attacked? Handle it yourself, Boss Babe. Anything that damages mission readiness and unit cohesion should be removed from our armed forces. Units should not be co-mingled. If the men are spending more time babysitting the women instead of completing the objective, that is a recipe for failure
Lot's of common sense in this thread, thank God.