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baloney....

I would hate to see the status of the services if not for women...

my mother cared for dying soldiers in WW2 at a TB hospital, and I happen to think her contribution to the war effort as a Navy nurse was equal to that of my dad, who fought with the Navy in the Pacific....

I would love to see a complete return to traditional roles for men and women...it ain't gonna happen..

It ain't gonna happen because too many people think that the gender roles are not exclusive...that men and women can do the same things as well....SOMETHING THAT I DON'T BELIEVE AT ALL.....but if one is going to say that women can not do men's work than that would require them to say that men can not do women's work, and that would mean that women would automatically get 100% custody of young children...since that is the traditional role of women....and judging by the number of Men's/Fathers rights topics that run weekly here on FR, I don't think that that notion is going to fly...

oh, and about those pregnancies...I suppose they were all Immaculate Conceptions weren't they....

It was, and God bless your mother. But we're talking women in combat (or on the battlefield), not nurses. No one here is saying that women shouldn't be allowed to serve in any capacity.

It ain't gonna happen because too many people think that the gender roles are not exclusive...that men and women can do the same things as well...

Basically koolaid served up by yer friends in the media. It's basically BS and everybody knows it, including you, but the utopian dreamers in the media keep spooning up the pablum. Treasonous bastards IMO.

FGS

"I would hate to see the status of the services if not for women..."

Women can contribute to the services, as my own mother did in WWII, in non-combat roles.

"my mother cared for dying soldiers in WW2 at a TB hospital, and I happen to think her contribution to the war effort as a Navy nurse was equal to that of my dad, who fought with the Navy in the Pacific...."

Her contribution was a great one, but vastly different than fighting the enemy in combat. My dad fought in WWII in the Navy in the Pacific too, his ship, the U.S.S. San Juan was hit by a Japanese bomb. He also saw action in the Atlantic on an LST. My mother worked for the Dept. of the Navy; but I would never say their roles were "equal". I think women today suffer badly from low self esteem and need to compensate for it by trying to make themselves "equal" to men. Too bad they couldn't find a more productive way to build their esteem up than trying to tear men down.

my mother cared for dying soldiers in WW2 at a TB hospital,

Actually, now that you mention it... weren't there plenty of nurses etc. in WWII and Korea that were overrun, killed, or captured, raped and tortured? Seems to me that's true. We ought to remember that PFC Lynch wasn't in a rifle company. She was a supply clerk. If it wasn't for the ongoing gender, racial, and political wars that have formed a perfect storm with Jessica as the lightning rod, it would be just one of those things. One of those bad, bad things that happen in war. I'll tell you one thing though -- there wouldn't be all the women-haters that would prefer she had been found dead than alive.

I bought the damn book. I want her to have a little bit of money. And I don't trust that iraqi lawyer either. Heck, I don't trust ANY lawyer, much less a carpet-driving one. He's made out like Ali Baba. How come nobody resents him for it? Because they're a bunch of racists who expect it from a camel jockey that's why.