Something is very wrong, Mike in Iraq, some sort of very slickly-executed turnaround maneuver has been executed so deftly that no one is aware of it and yet there is a vague sense of disorientation....oh yes, I know what it is now.
Earlier in the thread, you used the story of your 103 pound female classmate as some sort of shining exemplar of grrrl power - because by God, she could kick major league boi ass and make them cry and by God, there was no reason to think any other grrrl couldn't do this if she put her mind to it...
...because when you got right down to it there really weren't any innate differences between male and female adolescents - unless, of course, maybe the females were better...
...except that as you were questioned about the story and were informed that female adolescents simply weren't that strong in the experience of others, you said...
"...Oh well, come to think of it, she was a junior and the boys in her weight class were lower classmen and maybe not quite as muscularly developed"
...This was a little factoid that you left out when you were beating the drums for grrrl power - so when you get right down to it, Mike in Iraq, this was a fairly exceptional experience, probably a VERY exceptional one, and not at all typical of what one might ordinarily expect when pitting boys against girls in physical competition -
...so perhaps your grrrlpower theme isn't really justified by the example that you've provided....
And quite frankly, Mike in Iraq, I can't make up my mind for you about matters of conscience, in terms of military service and all, but here is an article by a theologian who says that a nation defended by her women is not a nation worth defending - http://www.credenda.org/issues/10-3husbandry.php ...
... and by the same token, I think that the fact that we have these serious intergender competitions in events such as WRESTLING is ANOTHER example of what a sick society we live in and how unworthy of defense that society is...
Food for thought.
yeah way to misquote me. I guess if you want to twist something your way you wil....
I can only speak from experience because only witnessed it and we ARENT talking about defense of our nation with women. We are talking about high school wrestling mr. Ant ag on ist...
if you are so certain women are so inferior, why dont you let your wife know and see what she thinks....
next thing you will tell me is that I am not in Iraq....
Something I stumbled across awhile back was a story/photo that the Army apparently allowed a girl and a boy to fight each other in a post boxing tournament back in 1999 out at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the girl actually won the fight.
While it may be good to know that a female soldier can handle herself well, it probably didn't do much for the male soldier's pride, so it's kind of troubling to see things like that allowed.