[goldstategop]

Exactly. Height and Strength matters in the police, fire services and the military. I'm a man of slight build, which despite my hearing disability, would have disqualified me from those jobs since you have to be strong enough to deal with dangerous circumstances and protect those around you. We have to accept the fact that certain jobs will always call for a certain height and a level of strength necessary to get them done. Gender aside, if we ignore it, we're putting the lives of innocent people at needless risk.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[ran15]

Its sad that we are pushing our women into warfare and careers.. while encouraging our men to be stay at home dads.

And lying to our young telling them they can be whatever they want to be. Instead of telling them, most things they won't excel at, instead follow your own strengths.

[arrogantduck]

I have been in the military, a police officer, a fire fighter and an EMT. I am 5' 7" tall and weigh 175 pounds. I have fought men 3 times my size and won and I have had to have help fighting a 5 foot 95 pound female on LSD...and everything in between. I have seen large men get their butts kicked by skinny teenagers. It boils down to training, sure there are a lot of women who really need to be at home sweeping the floors that are in jobs where the use of force is required daily...however, there are some men in that category also. I have had two women partners that I would put up against most men and feel comfortable letting my paycheck ride on the fight! If it were a man my size that day in Atlanta who had his weapon lifted we would be calling for more security and better training in prisoner control and transport techniques but because it was a woman who was on duty that we think that it was her fault because we are gender biased. I used to be the same way, until I realized the value of good training. Maybe she wasn't trained correctly. did anyone think of that!