Owner59
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ORIGINAL: Owner59 Trotta doubles down...... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/20/fox-news-liz-trotta-rape-military_n_1288769.html "Fox News pundit Liz Trotta responded to the barrage of criticism that was unleashed after she made a series incendiary statements regarding rape in the military. Trotta appeared on Fox News on Sunday. Fox News host Eric Shawn said Trotta "indicated that women who put their lives on the line for their country in close proximity to men are courting sexual assault.Some people understood [Trotta] to be saying that because of this, they are less deserving of protection from violent crime from their male counterparts, particularly because [she] criticize the Pentagon's sex abuse programs that are put in place to protect them." Trotta referred to prepared remarks and said she felt very misunderstood. She responded, "This is a subject that has never gotten a fair and open hearing either in the national media or in Congress." Trotta alleged that "the main objective" of "hardline feminists" is to "force the Pentagon to lift the ban on women in combat. Accordingly, the political correctness infecting the Pentagon has resulted in silly and dishonest fairytales about female heroism." Trotta recalled the story of Pfc. Jessica Lynch, and said there were "countless other stories of fake heroism or exaggerated prowess in which women are the stars, many of them tailored for the New York Times and its agenda to promote militant feminism, no matter what the truth." donno where the strikethrough came from, but it made it hard to read... Anyway, what is wrong with women in combat? We are no longer fighting with swords here people, and I don't care what gonads someone has, if they shoot me in the arse with an AK47 it'll hurt! More importantly, we have a technological military now. We need the smartest, fastest, most dedicated people we can get, and cutting half of the available resources out over gonads is just hurting the military for no reason. Now I do dislike having women nukes, but that is because the idea of a woman smart enough to handle nuclear physics risking her genes is a crime against nature...especially the really hot ones. Maybe I'm wrong in that, I mean, I think a man's gonads replenish, so damage is temporary, while a woman's eggs are at risk, but maybe the danger of mutation is still there? In any case, I dislike, but don't try to prevent. If one considers how many child soldiers there are(for real....tens of thousands of them, all over the world but especially in Africa)it`s not hard to see that gender is making less and less of a difference everyday,especially toting a Kalashnikov. No doubt on average,men can kick a women`s asses more often but on an individual basis,anything can happen.I know women half my weight and 6 inches shorter who my ass,and have. Making it all about "combat'" tho is a ruse.There are ten or more non-combat support personnel needed for ever one combat soldier. There are TONS of jobs women are happy to do(I know some Iraq female vets)like policing,guard duty(my friends did A LOT of that),truck driving,medical/food/RR,etc. All that said,it`s hard to say that a female tank commander or a female tank crew couldn`t perform just as well as a male crew or male tank commander. Or with any other weapon or weapon system,the same.
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