If it were just carrying loads, it wouldn't be such an issue. Women in combat, or in combat leadership positions is just a God-awful disaster on so many levels, for so many reasons.
People will just do the sickest, stupidest things over social politics, which is one reason why I'm beginning to develop such a deep hatred for the modern left.
Actually, see the linked article above in my post...carrying heavy things IS a problem, not for just the inability to carry as much on average, but because women suffer more lower extremity injuries due to their relatively lesser bone mass and muscle mass in their legs.
There are many motivated women who work hard to develop their musculature to overcome this relative deficiency, but they have to work harder than men to get their muscle mass up (unless they are actively taking steroids to close the gap on the naturally produced steroids that men make for themselves) and when they stop working hard at it, they drop off much faster as biology reverts to the norm.
It isn’t hating women to say these things. It is stating fact. But since we live in times where stating facts can get you branded with a host of derogatory terms, we are forced to either shut up and by our silence tacitly approve this dangerous weakening of military standards, or speak the truth and accept those maledictions from the politically correct crowd.
It all seems like a done deal now, though. We have made that choice and are going to live it when the time comes. Actually, not we in the soft behind the lines civilian world, those who are in harm’s way are going to “live it”.
God help them, both the men who are going to be in it, and the women who our civilian and military leadership put there.