No doubt you are a fan of the current crop of Hollywood movies where one svelte women kicks the crap out of twenty guys in a fight....
I'm a fan of well-muscled chicks who wear the uniform...guess this retired military officer is just chivalrous at heart...
"No doubt your a fan of the current crop of Hollywood movies where one svelte woman beats the crap out of twenty guys in a fight."You noticed that too?It's become chronic.You see males(wm's in particular)portrayed as stupid,bigoted,sexist,cowardly,etc,etc.There may be one male who is the antithisis of the above description,but he's usually a lib.More Hollyweird propaganda.
No, but one chick with a Hellfire missile is worth more than 100 male ground-pounders!
Those of us who have seen the grim horror at the sharp end of infantry combat (as I did in a Mech Infantry outfit in Vietnam) are concerned at the rhetoric of many of those pushing the women in combat agenda. Daily we are regaled by the sight of 110 lb. women routinely beating the stuffing out of 250 lb male behemoths in choreographed entertainment fantasies like Buffy the vampire Slayer, Dark Angel, Tomb Raider and the Matrix Reloaded. We all listened breathlessly to the initial (later revealed as inaccurate) reports of brave little Jessica Lynch mowing down hordes of Iraqis.
It is only natural that with this continual barrage of opinion shaping that an attitude will begin to form that women are just as generally capable of participating in infantry combat as men are, with a comensurate erosion of the rationale for excluding them in the first place.