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Men and women are different, whether you choose to accept the fact or not - I could really care less.
Insult and call names like a child because that's all you have in your quiver.....
Yeah...you're real capapable of ultimate emotional control in combat when it counts and can't even control yourself here....what a joke.
And the policy is what?
No women in combat.
And my position is what?
No women in combat.
Yeah....men like me sure aren't making policy.....
What a twit.
Try climbing a mountain in Afghanistan. Try patrolling the in heat in Iraq with a 100 pound load.
Yes, Ms. Grrrrrlpower, you know absolutely nothing about this (obviously. But keep living you feminist dream in an air conditioned room where women and men are the same, but with slightly different clothes.
Men are warriors by nature and can hump half their body weight in gear all day long. And that's what is often required in combat.
The same can not be said for women.
Leave them in support roles.
And you have to do a lot more in combat than "aim a rifle". In fact, a modern soldier carries as much extra weight (about 70 lbs.) as a medieval knight. Women are at a distinct disadvantage in anaerobic ability, strenth, endurance, and speed. Some women ARE stronger than others. But the overlap between the strongest women and the weakest men is very small. Men have an endless supply of a performance enhancing drug. It's called testosterone.
I am a martial artist and have sparred with many women. Even ones that are far more advanced than me (and I'm an average sized man) seem slow, weak, and non-agressive.
Not to mention women are at a huge risk for sexual abuse and torture when captured or wounded by the enemy and can become pregnant.
Of course, in the modern, air conditioned, nice smelling world that you inhabit, men and women are equals.
Pass the low calorie sweetener.
Regarding alimony, the time for it to end is long past. It is a state imposed form of slavery. The payor lives under incredible stress and threat of jail for non compliance, often for a lifetime. The receipient, OFTEN does not accept responsibiity for being a full fledged member of society....they are in a sense developmentally behind their peers.....always looking for the handout. When the alimony ends due to grand payoff, or death of payor, a payee is now unequipped to deal with life....they have lost valuable time to adjust while they were able. The divorce lawyer's fight to retain alimony laws because it fuels their practices, Most divorces are filed by women...upwards to 89%,.....the number would likely drop if no alimony were available.....somehow they would work harder to improve their marriages rather than run to the lawyer for the easier way out. Remember: Alimony = Slavery -and- it's continued existence is the life source of the family law/divorce law sub speciality in law practices.
1. Boredom (intellectually, emotionally as well as physical boredom)
2. Lack of money/ambition (she is only there for what YOU can provide)
3. cheating
4. abuse
Face it, if you go into marriage with romantic blinders on, then you fail to see the PARTNERSHIP. It usually means that the man provides the bulk of the income, the woman makes a home, has babies and gives the husband continual access to her honey pot as well as try to look good so that he can be admired for his choice.
Not that it always works out that way--but there it is. Now, like most business PARTNERSHIPS when the business fails, there has to be a buyout--the more money in the business (marriage) the larger the buyout and if you don't like that--stop getting business partners who have contracts with you (marriage license) and stop thinking that women do not know the score. Most do. They have a limited amount of years to capitalize on their looks, their bodies and their prowess and for those who think brains is all there is--don't lie--look at Sarah Palin. If she looked like Margaret Thatcher or Hilary Clinton, there'd be no interest in her anymore. It is the sex, stupid. It always is, it always was and because it is the sex, we pay our sexy actresses, models, talk show hosts and airhead politicians, more than we pay most smart woman. Man up dude. You bought into the "Partnership" now that is dissolving, you have to buy the other partner out--the one with the "mostest" pays. Stop whining.
I'm all for this, so long as there is not a separate standard of physical fitness for men and women -- by MOS.
For AG personnel who are in the rear with the beer and the gear, make the PT test have some event like the typewriter lift.
For Engineers, let them hump a 40lb ruck full of C4 on top of their other combat gear for 10 miles in some specified amount of time.
Those who can pass their specific test, male or female, keep their MOS.
For all you "men only" folks, that means a lot of men would be away from the front line and a lot of women would be right up there in the mix. The whole "the men would have to help the women" argument is absolute BS.
I spent 23 years in the Army. I encountered a lot of women who were more fit to be Combat Engineers than some of the skinny little sniveling "mama's boys" I had to deal with.