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Armed Forces admit sex harrassment
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Discrimination - well, in a military context, I think it can be acceptable.
OK, before you shout at me hear me out.
I'm sure there are women who could put up with the rigours of the infantry, and have the same levels of fitness and agression. However, most of the evidence shows that putting women into a fighting infantry section reduces combat effectiveness. And whether you like it or not closing and killing the enemy is the prime role of the infantry. If you reduce their effectiveness at the very best you get people killed uneccessarily and at the worst, you loose wars and potentially our whole way of life.
There's other reasons as well. That's not to say there are no roles in the military for women, but even in this day and age I think some roles should remain male only.
However, most experts in the field do feel it wrecks small unit dynamics.
they cut of the testicles instead and pull hair :thumb:
uncalled for but legally a woman cant commit rape anyway
ie from a brotherhood as such to well a non-brotherhood
my mates in the navy and shes agrees with me in terms of infantry soldiers
not to my knowledge, after they did, but i think thats partially due to the fact a quarter fo their population got killed off in the 2ndworld war
Yes, known a vicious fighters who cuts balls off and pulled hair
Okay, not the hair part
I think the favoured expression on these boards was "Feminazi"
I suspect that Born Slippy might fit that criteria
I'm not sure that the Army really reflects the male populations as a whole and certainly the officer corps doesn't.
Which would be really valid if this kind of discrimination didn't happen in other sectors of the country. Sadly there are some men who either do not see it as harrassment or discrimination, or actually are mysogynists.
But they had no male soldiers in their ranks, so interfering with the male bonding needed for small unit cohesion was nil. And neither were they mainstream or in most cases particually effective (though there were exceptions and some of the snipers were quite good).
Is this true?
I read a story a while ago about a woman who was attacked by another woman, she penetrated her with a weapon. I can't remember how the police treated it though.
From Rape Crisis:
The law currently defines rape as the non-consensual penetration of the vagina, anus or mouth by penis.
However acts such as the penetration of the vagina or anus by a foreign object are also experienced by women as rape. The law accounts for these acts with offences which carry the same sentence as rape.
In addition touching, fondling and sexual contact against a woman's will are all forms of sexual assault.
Women can be far more evil than men. But only some women. In the same way some men could never serve in the army.
Just don't let a women near a gun at that time of the month...
I went to an army camp for a week or so, and although I'm no expert so don't pick me up on this point too much, there was a divide between male and females. The female students with me had a female officer looking after them, etc. etc. I think it's along the same lines as at my school there is a 'girls room' for girls to chat at lunch or just get away from it all whereas we're not allowed a boys room because we don't need it so much.
I hate generalising, and I know I've done it just there so I apoligise. In my opinion though it's a reaction to having someone 'different' because ni the armed forces women aren't the norm, women are support staff and the like, not the front line soldiers, so maybe the front line soldiers don't see them as equals.
Just my take on it though.
How come every time someone says something pro-feminism someone has to jump in being sarcastic saying "Feminazi!!". It just doesn't seem to contribute to the debate at all *shrugs* I know there were some people who had that opinion and it was a way of taking the mick out of them, but I see it all the time in threads now with no other references.
I don't really see how that's discriminating against women? Soldiers are going to make leud remarks, there's no way around it.
The army isn't the place for those of a sensitive disposition.