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Originally posted by factfinder38
Give women some credit and quit always bringing up PMS because it does not apply.
I have never been in combat but I have been in the military and done a great deal of firefighting with women and they have always given their all. Not all women will be good but not all men can do the job either.
Originally posted by factfinder38
If you take that view on things then accept why some men do not want women in any position of power. I feel a woman can be as good as a man if people quit telling her that she can't and that starts with her father and continues all her life.
Originally posted by Captain_Sensible
I think women should be allowed to fight alongside men if they train to the exact standards that the men do, not like the British Army requirements that pass women with inferior performance to men.
Originally posted by Tinkleflower
Menstruation.
PMS.
Unless every female serving member is going to use hormonal methods to control either/both, wouldn't this be - at the very least - an inconvenience?
Originally posted by LordGoofus
I don't mean to offend any women out there but I also wonder how women stack up re: mental strength? It's a proven fact women tend to be more emotional than men (gatherer), where men have an ability to "turn off" , an ability we grew out of necessity (hunter), over the course of evolution.
How would female soldiers hold up splattering someone's brains just metres from them? Or seeing decomposing bodies of the enemy and civilians? I imagine dead children/babies in particular would have a strong negative effect on them.