Are Military Women On the Front Lines Advancing Feminism?

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-06-23 19:00

Article here. Excerpt:

'In recent years, there has been a huge influx in the amount of women joining the United States military. According to a recent AP article, women now make up about 14% of the 1.4 million active U.S. military personnel and more than 280,000 women have been sent overseas in support of the wars. There are even talks of women becoming Army Rangers as soon as mid-2015 and women Navy SEALs shortly after. But what impact are these changes having on American military?
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Allowing women on the front lines actually weakens our army. Leaders, both men and women, within the military are speaking out against these changes; unfortunately, we live in a world that cares more about being politically correct than doing the right thing.
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In the name of sexual equality, we are willing to lower the requirements of being on the front lines of a war. This jeopardizes the lives of not only those women, but everyone else involved. If you are going to be on the front line, you need to have the physical strength to carry your partner off the battlefield and to safety.'

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Like clockwork.

"Let me play soldier but I don't want to be in danger."

There's a word for male members of the armed forces who act like this. It's not flattering.

This is typical double-standard feminism in action. The article's title asks a question. I can answer it: It neither advances nor not advances feminism. But the author's treatment of the topic hardly advances her as a person of consistent ideology-- unless that ideology includes unqualified nymphotropism.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2013-06-23 20:13

“Any member of the armed forces who before or in the presence of the enemy—
(1) runs away;
(2) shamefully abandons, surrenders, or delivers up any command, unit, place, or military property which it is his duty to defend;
(7) causes false alarms in any command, unit, or place under control of the armed forces;
(8) willfully fails to do his utmost to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy any enemy troops, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any other thing, which it is his duty so to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy; or"

"Maximum punishment. All offenses under Article 99. Death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct."

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Submitted by MrWombat on Mon, 2013-06-24 04:51