I've got an acquaintance who is a Vegan (no meat, no eggs, no dairy, no animal products at all) because she thinks it's a cruel way to live. She's had chronic health problems ever since she made the decision at the wise age of 18 (she's now in her 50s), got pregnant while she was vegan, and her doctor told her that she HAD to start ingesting animal protein, in dairy or eggs or fish, if she wanted a healthy pregnancy. She refused; her doc told her to take a hike, and she had to find a new doc. She had a HORRIBLE, miserable pregnancy, the baby was born extremely underweight and very slow to develop, had allergy problems, etc., wouldn't eat, etc. She also so weakened her body that she was rendered unable to ever have kids again after that pregnancy. To make a long story short, her stupid and stubborn insistence that she and her child could live healthily as vegans, caused untold harm and misery to herself and the kid. The truth was that no matter what she wished, the chemistry just wasn't there. She wanted 2 plus 2 to equal 5, dammit! And she and that kid have payed a heavy price; the idiot (of course she's a liberal) has never admitted it.
Biker Chick, no matter how much you WISH it wasn't true, the fact is that women and men are different by nature, by chemistry, NOT by nurture. When you put a bunch of women in a mix of men, no matter how much you wish it wasn't so, women serve as distractions to them.
I'm a woman. I am not bashing women when I say that women DO NOT belong in combat, not on the ground, not on ships, and sure as hell not on submarines.
I'll bet you don't know the first thing about life on a submarine -- you've probably never read "Hunt for Red October," or "Iron Coffins," or watched "Das Boot," or socialized much with submariners. I have done all those things and I can tell you -- introducing women on submarine crews is really, really, stupid and suicidal. An all-male fighting force will KICK THEIR ASSES when the sh*t hits the fan. The military is no place for I-wish-it-was-so social engineering.
No matter how nice it would be, 2 plus 2 doesn't equal five. Women in the RIGHTLY, NATURALLY masculine field of warrior fighting forces equals disaster. They will make the fighting force weak. If I wanted to sabotage an enemy fighting force you BET YOUR BUTT I'd have them a) include women in all their combat and fighting units and b) have them tolerate open homosexuality in their fighting forces. I would do that because my own country's all-male fighting force could much more easily then KICK THEIR ASSES.
I took offense to several comments on the thread.
Lol, that isn't always easy, I guess you have noticed that they can suddenly be a thousand miles away inside a privacy bubble. The living in close quarters seems to make them able to separate themselves from the people in the room without any effort.
It is a major crime what is being done to our military!