A perfect example of this is the issue of women fighting in combat in the military. Such an idea is ludicrous. I have three daughters, and one of them has a terrible time when she goes through her menstrual cycle each month, to the point of almost being crippled over with pain. I doubt that she is unique in this. Can you imagine a woman suffering from intense menstrual cramps while in the middle of a foxhole and without sanitary pads or tampons? And how would she have access to the necessary change of these materials?
In addition, men are naturally stronger than women. Women are incapable of performing some of the tasks which men do. And worst of all, if women are captured by the enemy while in combat, they will likely be raped.
Why can't these people let girls be girls? They don't belong on the battlefield. Behind the scenes offering support is fine, but not on the front lines.
Read from One News Now:
Women, men not interchangeable in combat
As reported earlier on OneNewsNow, the Marine Corps has begun a program that will allow select female Marine officers to participate in a few months of training at the Marine Infantry Officer Course at Quantico, Virginia. But in the July 2012 Marine Corps Gazette, Capt. Katie Petronio published an op-ed piece titled "Get Over It! We Are Not All Created Equal," in which she describes the physical problems she encountered during her two combat deployments as an engineer officer.
In an interview on CNN, she asserted that putting females in the infantry will affect combat readiness.
"I left a seven-month deployment 17 pounds lighter. I had muscle atrophy. I stopped producing estrogen, which for me caused me to have infertility," she shared, "and I was only doing a portion of what my infantry brethren were doing. My concern is that there [are] a lot of gender-specific medical conditions that we haven't even begun to identify and that there's going to be a cost associated to that."
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), notes that tests done over the past 30 years prove what Capt. Petronio is saying.
"Every time there has been a comparative test, it has been shown that women -- as brave as they are, as willing [as they are] to work hard -- there is not a single study that shows that women are interchangeable with men in direct ground combat," Donnelly reports. "That's reality, and you don't make policy based on Amazon myths."
In an interview on CNN, she asserted that putting females in the infantry will affect combat readiness.
"I left a seven-month deployment 17 pounds lighter. I had muscle atrophy. I stopped producing estrogen, which for me caused me to have infertility," she shared, "and I was only doing a portion of what my infantry brethren were doing. My concern is that there [are] a lot of gender-specific medical conditions that we haven't even begun to identify and that there's going to be a cost associated to that."
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), notes that tests done over the past 30 years prove what Capt. Petronio is saying."Every time there has been a comparative test, it has been shown that women -- as brave as they are, as willing [as they are] to work hard -- there is not a single study that shows that women are interchangeable with men in direct ground combat," Donnelly reports. "That's reality, and you don't make policy based on Amazon myths."
The CMR president agrees with Petronio that men and women are not created equal when it comes to the physical demands of combat.
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