JTarrou
21hr ago
Yes, women are perfectly capable of doing basic office jobs so long as no hardship is involved. Not sure that qualifies as "military", but we let the officers wear uniforms, so waddaya waddaya.
JTarrou
21hr ago
1: The Navy is heavily, but not exclusively homosexual. Thousands of dudes on a ship, and it only takes one to knock up the girlboss.
2: If you've seen the level of attractiveness of military women, a gay man could be forgiven for making a mistake.
JTarrou
3d ago
Universal draft and holding all recruits to male fitness standards would do it, no need for war.
Trust me, they'd get pregnant to get out of a ten-mile road march.
JTarrou
3d ago
Women want to be in combat arms for that sweet combat pay,
I don't think this is it. The push for women in combat has come almost exclusively from female officers. There are to a rounding error zero women in the whole US trying to be enlisted infantry.
Officers want a combat billet for promotion purposes, and for the sweet sweet uniform garland. Bunch of awards you can only get in an infantry unit, and command of a combat unit is huge in officer promotions. There are essentially no women in the whole world who want to actually do the job of combat. Not for love, money or insanity. What there are is wanna-be girlbosses who need to stamp the Infantry page in their promotion journal.
Furthermore, women have an easy out of an actual deployment, because the Army doesn't deploy preggos. When the 11th deployed in '05, there was so many pregnancies in the support units that they had to transfer in eight hundred male soldiers to backfill all the women getting out of deployment. Only one female out of roughly a thousand deployed. And they weren't even combat arms!
Hear me now, believe me later, this is all bureaucratic manouver. There is no cadre of females who will actually fight in combat units. There are only two reasons women want to get into hardcore units, it's either promotion or pregnancy. They're looking for a star or a train.
What they really object to is Trump teaching the Republicans to do politics like Democrats. The Republican Party has its first tiny little riot in a hundred years, and the party of all-day-every-day rioting falls about hyperventilating about "insurrection".
Trump does normal, technically gray area stuff like have classified documents or pay off mistresses and it's a hundred felony counts. James gets grilled about mortgage fraud and it's the end of Democracy.
JTarrou
4d ago
It's a bad precedent, but it isn't Trump's precedent. Turnabout is fair play and so far nothing I've seen from Trump rises to the level of what his enemies have already done to him personally.
Our modern childish individualism sees people as complete and perfect, needing no training or education at all. We are taught to resist and subvert legitimate authority, and submit to the opinions of strangers on the internet.
How much of our educational idiocy is downstream of the inability of teachers to command the respect and attention of their students?
How much of our criminal idiocy is downstream of the resistance of large sections of the public to basic enforcement of the laws?
How much of our political idiocy is downstream of the unwillingness of our ruling class to support the government they control?
Ultimately, we all spend our lives on what we find important. We follow the rules we must to get where we want to go. We all serve, we are all limited. Freedom is not the lack of restriction, it is the choice of restriction.
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