"sigh"
How long do you suppose it will be before Team 0bama (gag me with a spoon) looks across the Pond and says "How enlightened! We need that here in the USA as well!"?
And why should it stop with women? Homosexuals and racial minorities need to be on EACH fire engine as well.
"banging head on desk"
The last person I would want to see coming up a ladder to save me from a burning building would be a woman, and I am a woman. Women have little arm strength as compared to men (we have our strength in our hips, for babymaking). Just what I want, to be dropped on the way down by a female fireMAN. Geez.
Ed Koch said it best: “I don’t care what sex a firefighter is, as long as they can carry a 200 pound mayor out of a burning building.” In other words, screw diversity, celebrate competence.
Firefighter is just one of those professions where bigger and stronger is better. That’s reality, and reality doesn’t care about diversity, political correctness, or feelings.
Good news for the little people is that there are other professions where smaller and lighter is better - helicopter pilot, submarine crew, etc.
In that case, may God have mercy on the patients served by the Bedlam Fire Service.
The male muslim population is threatened...
(at least I believe they should be)
In fact I work with one now who played womens pro football, college basketball and softball, and boxed in the firemen/police olympics against and an exmarine cop and kicked her butt.
That being said she will be the first to disagree with quaotas for women. In fact shes for stronger qualifiers for both sexes. Unless your at the slowest firehall in the world its oo hard at times for most people.
Arrggh!!!!!
Haharrrgghhhhh!
Laugh or cry, I’m not sure.
I’m surprised the Brits havent mandated a Muslim on each engine too and no responses to fire calls during prayer time for ragheads.
It could make the annual firemans calendar a little more interesting. :>
I can’t believe Hollyweird hasn’t addressed the problem of not enough female firefighters. Every cop show, CSI for example, has females as the lead investigators or body disectors. I don’t know what the real ratio is, but according to Hollyweird, females now make up about fifty percent of big city police forces. It’s now time to give fire departments the same treatment, the facts be damned.