For example:
"How about the men who caved and allowed that to happen, rather than demand that women are held to the same standards? For decades, men including some at this forum have been complaining about how inadequate female troops are putting male troops in danger, but what have men done about it? Nothing. Just cave."
Apparently, you have no experience at all with our military services. Enlisted and Company Grade and Field Grade Officer have no say at all in matters in the direction of the services and even, it turns out, General Officers too. in 2015, the Marine Corps conducted an exhaustive set of field test comparing all male units with mixed male-female units in combat conditions at Camp LeJeune North Carolina and 29 Palms California.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/10/439190586/marine-corps-study-finds-all-male-combat-units-faster-than-mixed-units
The tests were rigorously conducted for offensive and defensive combat in the desert and the results were unambiguous: all-male units were superior. The results of that test were forwarded to the Secretary of the Navy and then the SecDef and President Obama and - this is a big mystery - the results of the study were ignored and females were pushed into all combat roles.
I have served in combat. It's no place for women, weak men, or anything else but committed, well-trained, physically fit men. Combat is killing on an industrial scale and whole purpose of the army or Marine Corps infantry is to kill the enemy or be killed in that process. Any study of the history of combat will show the filth, the brutality. the horror of it hasn't changed and never will change. Women are worse than a weaker link, their presence handicaps the unit cohesion that is absolutely needed for success in combat. We're putting 18-19-20 year olds at peak hormones together in close proximity a long ways from home. Individual loyalties - and conflict - will naturally emerge all of which cracks the unity of purpose of that unit.
For decades the Defense Advisory Committee for Women in the Service (DACOWITS) made themselves an annoying presence, dropping in to our ground units while we were training and insisting that "women can do that job". It's not a job, it's a mission, a very specific and dangerous mission that depends on the fitness and unity of its members.
We are at the whims of our political "leaders" and common sense doesn't penetrate.
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We are at the whims of our political "leaders" and common sense doesn't penetrate.
I get that, the decision was made elsewhere. THEY were the ones who caved.
I suggest you look at how the feminists managed to get the government to cave as it did. They and their supporters campaigned for the changes.
Men had the truth on their side. On this issue, YOU have the truth on your side. The problem is, there was no counter activism. You can blame it on having to hold down jobs, or agree with me that men in general had other priorities, but whatever the reason, the fact remains that the feminists fought for their POV and men didn't. The government caved, and here we are.
What are men going to do about it?