I agree with her completely. I am of the wrong generation, brought up to believe it didn’t matter what I was skilled at, not to waste my time with an education. I was just going to be a wife and mother. I have been married 41 years, and have raised a set of twins, boy and girl (who was in the Navy), now 37. I accomplished what my parents wanted for me. And I would not change a thing that would have not allowed me to raise these amazing children of mine.
However, I believe women are capable of a variety of skills much better than men. My own daughter was 5’4”, and could take down of man of 200+ pounds with her boot at his throat in a matter of seconds. Women are much more capable that they are given credit for. Women are farm more organized, in reality and in the mind. Our skills are just as precise, and our thinking can be molded for the reality we are placed in. Santorum has seven children, not much time for his wife to think about anything but being a mother. And just when she thinks the time is right for her to achieve her own accomplishments, she was pregnant with one more child. I am sure Mrs. Santorum is probably a very fine woman, and loves her children dearly, and I admire her a great deal.
The future holds a variety of opportunities for women these days, and I wish I could do it all over again. I would choose the military and now feel, as those in Israel do, that every man and woman should have a moral obligation to complete at least one tour of duty in the military, at whatever they are good at for their country. If there is one thing you can say about those in Israel, they have a love for their country as no other. The military can find the best in each of them, no matter what their limitations might be. It does not take a masculine body to accomplish many of the tasks that are required. I know many men who would have loved to be in the military, but were medically disqualified.
Those likening this to Israel have not kept up with the latest developments. Even Israel backed off of a idealistic egalitarianism when more sober study (and old time religion can be thanked for providing an environment in which such a study was still possible) showed that there are some places the ladies make sense and some places they plain don’t. If you got a pack of hounds you don’t necessarily want them constantly distracted with having a cute fox among them, among other concerns.
Sure she did, and I once beat up one million Navy SEALs while blind folded.
Bull, I have done an awful lot of hard living, and fighting and bar action in my life, and I never saw those super tough females that would stand up to bad men, biker chicks look tough to other females, but biker men don’t tolerate nonsense from them. I never saw the women that could take over a tough bar, or manhandle men that wen’t being polite, or inhibited, or under the threat of law, as with a cop.
That is why they can’t do things in the military, the funniest thing I ever witnessed in the Army was watching the females try to put up a large 30 man tent when a mixed unit spent some time next to my unit, the men just gathered round and watched them in fascination for awhile, they were too weak to handle it and eventually some of the guys went over and did the job.
Women can’t handle the 130, and 160 pound loads, that is why they don’t go through the physical tests, they go through a “female” test.
Even in the Navy which hasn’t fought a war in70 years, and where memories have grown dim, is a bad place for females, because when the system breaks down and the labor pool is reduced, they are not the equal of males.
My father was on the Marblehead, and the system broke down, the wounded and dead were everywhere doors warped, metal twisted, fire hoses needing operating, wounded carried up ladders, ammunition moved by hand.
Women cannot even make it as civilian firemen unless standards are reduced, as they did decades ago in law enforcement.
“My own daughter was 5’4”, and could take down of man of 200+ pounds with her boot at his throat in a matter of seconds. “
You are dreaming.
My daughter is 5’2”. For a time, she was convinced being a Marine was proof she could take on any guy. Then one night in a party, she got upset with a 6’ Army soldier and challenged him to a fight. He picked her up and tossed her across the room with one arm, then laughed and said she was cute. She picked herself up, and decided it was a good thing he thought she was cute.
I’ve seen girls win wrestling matches against guys the same size. But you won’t see women in MMA fights against guys twice their size - or MEN in MMA fights against men twice their size.
As a 5’7” male, I’m smart enough not to go around boasting I could take out a 6’4” male. Not unless I knew something he didn’t, or caught him by surprise. And my 5’2” daughter is now married to a 6’ ex-Marine...and she wouldn’t pretend she could beat him up. I wouldn’t either...
Too many movies, and too many folks believing those movies.
Ya see the problem is, they give people like you the right to vote...To prove my point, just look at the state of affairs and your own words.
Ya got the same attitude the leftist do in big cities, when the send 5'4" females into the brutal senseless murder districts where extremely violent people rule.
Anyone thinking this is a good idea has brain rot.
This is not an aspiration I have for my daughters. My wife, for instance, has given birth to our 10 children. The first was a C-section. The next nine were natural, without pain medications of any kind. Now that's tough!
Exodus 1:19
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Yeah, and then the problem starts when little Ms. Pretty Pink Belt runs into a guy who's a combat pragmatism instead of a gentleman and who isn't particularly concerned about the preferential treatment women receive under assault laws, and who pounds her butt into a pulp before tossing her through a plate glass window.
*****My own daughter was 5’4”, and could take down of man of 200+ pounds with her boot at his throat in a matter of seconds.
Uh huh. I did mixed-gender martial arts for years and your daughter’s opponent was either physically impaired in some way, wildly incompetent, or they were both in a contrived training environment.
Can a woman injure a man in hand-to-hand? Sure. Can a woman learn to defend herself? Sure. Can a woman physically dominate a much larger opponent as you describe? No way. The only exception if that opponent is impaired (e.g. drunk) or it’s some sort of make-believe training environment.