[Lucky Dog]

Twenty two percent do not believe women should be at the academy? They are probably the ones causing 99% of the problems. These toads must feel their macho egos are threatened by having females there that can do everything they can do. What little sissies they are!

The “problems,” as you put it, did not exist until women were admitted to the academy. Therefore, logically, it appears that those “who do not believe women should be at the academy” have a valid point.

It seems rather odd that for the last 5,000 years of recorded history, or so, that female participation in military combat activities has been a rare exception. However, by the standards that are creating the “problems” at the academy and in today’s military in general, it seems female participation is a requirement. Consequently, one is left to wonder why such a requirement would exist in the first place.

Rationally, one would conclude that if females were such an efficient addition to military combat forces, they would have been routinely added to military combat forces centuries, if not, millennia ago. After all, if such increases in military combat efficiency were, in deed, the case, then the first force to do so would have been overwhelmingly victorious and all afterwards would have followed suit. However, such a situation is manifestly not the situation nor has it ever been except in very rare and very limited circumstances. Again, one is left to wonder why.

Perhaps, in your great wisdom you would care to address the above-cited quandaries.

[Gritty]

Hey, Lucky Dog. Good to see you again! Using your usual excellent logic again, I see.

Good luck with the windmills!

...Whoops. There's the nurse now with my evening meds. I've gotta hobble run! Ta, Ta!

[derllak]

I don't pretend to be "all wise", but it has been just recently in our history that women have been ALLOWED the same rights as men. Hey, we're smart enough to cast an informed vote! Who'd of thunk?? Wow, we can drive cars, hold jobs, become doctors....now there's a shock for ya!
I know that there are some things men can do better, and there are things that women are better at. But in general, I think both are equally capable of going through the rigors of basic training, attending the academy, and serving the military.
Some men just can't seem to get over that fact and will do their darndest to make life for these women in the academy as difficult as they can. They would never live it down if the girls outdid them! It would be a deadening blow to their egos! These are the "toads" I am talking about!

[MonaMars]

"The “problems,” as you put it, did not exist until women were admitted to the academy. Therefore, logically, it appears that those “who do not believe women should be at the academy” have a valid point."

The racial problems of the South in the 60's did not exist until blacks started sitting at the front of the bus and at the same lunch counter as white folks. Therefore, logically, it appears that those who did not believe black folks belonged in such places had a valid point. Yeah, I think it sounds ridiculous, too, but it's your logic.