"J"  wrote in message
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>
> Hyerdahl wrote:
> > Grizzlie Antagonist wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 10:17:52 +1200, "geopelia"
> 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >"Dave Symn" 
wrote in message
> > > >news:1112201844.ec5caabcc14fe247c5d2204bcf812322{at}bubbanews...
> > > >> On 30 Mar 2005 08:57:10 -0800, John Templeton wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> > What does food have to do with it?
> > > >>
> > > >> Nothing, she's just hell-bent on finding some fuct
up criteria
> to
> > show
> > > >> female soldiers as "superior" in certain
pointless aspects and
> > discredit
> > > >> this report. It's hopeless and her idiocy is in
rare form today.
> >
> > I have no NEED to show women "superior" in order to highlight the
> > sexist criteria men use to keep women out.
>
> The criteria are sex-blind. Sexist criteria would be to say "if you
> have a penis you can join." Sex-blind criteria would be to say "if you
> can do this task, you can join.
>
> >If an army travels on it's
> > stomach, feeding a female military is easier than feeding a male one.
> > If women have better eye hand cooridination, that would be another
> > advantage to women.  But I don't see women trying to keep men out.
> :-)
>
> If all these advantages for women, why have there never been an
> effective women -only fighting force??
>
> >
> >
> > > > > > It's just more of the "women are strong
and good and men are
> > bad and
> > > weak" line that popular culture spews out.
> >
> >
> > Again, I do see men continuously trying to exclude women based on
> some
> > few differences as contrasted and compared with the amount women and
> > men have in common.  I don't see women trying to exclude men from any
> > societal institution.
>
> Inability to do the task at hand is not a difference, it is a lack of
> meeting the requirement. A 400 lb man cannot be in the army neither,
> nor can most peoples grandfather.

No, they join the Home Guard in a war. "Dad's Army". No doubt if
invasion is
threatened again we will have a "Mum's Army" as well. Count me in, I'd give
it a go, even at 75.

Geopelia





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