Posted on 02/18/2012 2:19:28 PM PST by Altura Ct.
We are swirling down the drain as we type.
Do openly gay soldiers have to do this, too?
I had no idea it had gotten this bad.
I was thinking the same thing. Will the female troops have to strap on extra anatomy, so they can understand why men walk the way they do?
You have been accused of the impossible. TOO pessimistic about this country does not exist any more than too much money. For some time I have been saying that America is like Alice in Wonderland but we have passed that point, Lewis Carroll could never have dreamed up something so ridiculous.
This is sickening. Pink bayonet squad alert.
OMG
Nonsense of course. The woman’s body is shaped differently, so the legs are father apart, and in later pregnancy, all the ligaments stretch a bit so falling and getting strains and sprains is more common.
That’s why we docs usually get our women off of heavy work after 20-28 weeks: falls are more common, fatigue is more common, and if you hit the uterus wrong, you could end up miscarrying.
Casey is an F’n idiot.
I have no idea, but that will probably be considered sexual harrassment.
Isn’t there a huge difference between a woman slowly adding on 25 pounds of baby during her 9 month pregnancy as she and her body adapts and adjusts, and some guy jumping up and suddenly strapping on a 25 pound fake apparatus and finding out it affects him?
To me it seems like they are not very similar at all.
The next thing the idiots that thought this up will strap our soldiers onto a table, feet in stirrups and pull their spleens out from between their legs....Where is Patton when you need him...
yes, the woman’s body slowly increases to the baby’s size, so it’s not like strapping on 25 pounds.
But there are a lot of other differences.
The guys are probably six foot and 200 lb, so 25 pounds isn’t a big deal. For a 5 foot 4 lady weighing 110 pounds, it could be.
but it’s not just the weight: The baby is INSIDE, so your intestines get pushed around (constipation, heartburn) and your diaphragms go up (you can’t breathe as deeply) and of course your heart has to pump extra blood to the kid (which your heart doesn’t have to do when you wear a weight).
And then you have the swollen legs (from the baby sitting on your lower vena cava) and the ligaments stretch (so your joints get wobbly).
So yes, this is bogus.
I just hope that male soldiers don’t have to learn how it feels to made pregnant in the first place.
This bell won't be un-rung.
Women in the military is a FACT.
Israel sure knows this. Their women are TOUGH as nails. They have to be.
PS ~ even though Israeli women are no longer in combat, they still train for it.
They have known how to do it all along. They have just been taking it slow and sneaky for many years. Now they are "in your face" defiant about it.
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