I don't think I would be as bitter as I am if I had any indication that men and even boys were coming around to the idea that 'girls' can't be kept out of the hurly-burly of daily life and relegated to secretarial work and staying home raising children or teaching or nursing. (Battlefield nursing is going to take them to the front lines, by the way, and they won't be armed either; any of you anti-woman boys want to comment on that?) Just get over the idea that men get a vote at all on whether or not the 'ladies' are capable of functioning as full fledged human beings; that question has been settled in the West, and it's time we all moved on.
I'm not in favour of women getting into all the mens' clubs, but I am definitely in favour of one standard for everyone and an end to the continuing whine that 'girls' don't belong here, there or anywhere due only to the fact that they are 'girls'. After 40 years and two generations I would have thought this stupid argument would have ended by now.
KateatRFM,
You wrote: "...relegated to secretarial work and staying home raising children or teaching or nursing..."
You have two of what SHOULD be regarded as the most critically important of professions in there, raising children and teaching, one of the most difficult, nursing, and one of the most indispensible and underrated, secretarial work.
In my opinion, the feminist movement has done a great, great disservice to women by belittling and marginalizing these occupations. Additionally, in the civilian world, if a woman is motivated, there is nothing she cannot do.
Want to talk about discrimination. . .be a young White male and see what that gets you.