Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
I think women are too valuable to be in combat.
On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.
What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.
Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that men and women are built differently. And while many will argue that women will only be allowed into combat arms units under the same requirements as their male counterparts, count me as skeptical.
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.