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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-01-28 06:44 pm

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Re: Pentagon lifting ban on American female troops in combat MOS

(Anonymous) 2013-01-29 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
This would be a problem with the male soldiers, not the female ones.
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Re: Pentagon lifting ban on American female troops in combat MOS

[identity profile] natural_blue_26.livejournal.com 2013-01-29 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
People are probably going to jump up my ass for this, but since I'm married to and related to people in the military, let me get my (very short repeated copy/paste because it's very late here) soapbox out on this - the numbers of women who get pregnant in the field/deployed are staggeringly high, and a certain percentage of that is by women who openly admit to becoming pregnant to get out of a deployment.

Plenty of times when this *isn't* the case (majority), according to everyone I've talked to who has been deployed the last ten years or so, almost any woman in a remote camp gets escorted *everywhere* by the men she works with - if only because of biology and the fact that none of them have seen a woman in an excessively long time - which takes valuable resources away from what people *should* be doing. (Related to the need to 'protect' that's drilled in through family values from an early age.)

And to everyone up thread who's totally unconcerned for emotion and mental distress/damage your fellow human beings go through? Screw you.

One way or another, it's a major step to assume *every* woman in the military has aspirations of serving in the front line - because I assure you not every man does. (There being plenty of needed positions within the armed services that rarely/never involve leaving American soil.)

Re: Pentagon lifting ban on American female troops in combat MOS

(Anonymous) 2013-01-29 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh please shut up about biology. They train soldiers to push the limits of human physical and mental endurance but rape is just inevitable? You're really okay with rapey soldiers representing your country as long as keeping women off combat somehow makes it so only foreigners get raped. I don't care who you're related or married to that's just stupid.

As to your mental emotional stress shit it is a WARZONE. If a woman on the area is too much for the frail little menz that is a HUGE problem that has nothing to do with women in combat. No one is saying EVERY woman just the ones fit with a desire or who are ALREADY there.
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Re: Pentagon lifting ban on American female troops in combat MOS

[identity profile] natural_blue_26.livejournal.com 2013-01-29 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Not that I feel like you're up for discussing this rationally Anon since you apparently also lack the drive - if not the ability - to be civil, but no one brought up rape before you. Two of my husband's NCOs are women who came home from deployments the last few months, and neither one has discussed this being an issue at all. Distraction does not automatically equal rape, I'm not sure how you made that connection that was what I was talking about inside you head frankly.

Do you actually know anyone in the service anon? Because it's quite one thing to discuss all this in theory on paper, but real life rarely plays out like any best (or worst) case scenario we can come up with here.

da

(Anonymous) 2013-01-29 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
What else is the mention of biology and not having seen women in a long time supposed to mean? I would also like to know why you think whatever you meant by distraction is acceptable.

DA DA

(Anonymous) 2013-01-29 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Uhhhh, of course a woman would be distracting to a guy who has not seen one in a while. The same way a guy will be distracting to a woman who has not seen on in a while. Or a gay man who has not seen another guy in a while. Or a lesbian who has not seen another woman in a while.

Of course this doesn't mean the person who going to start humping their leg, but they are going to be distracted. Just like when you see a hot person and get distracted.

Re: DA DA

(Anonymous) 2013-01-30 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
...yeah, how about fucking "no." What's wrong with you? "The boobs are distracting me" is the single stupidest excuse for anything, used only by stupid people. If you can't rise above some hypothetical baser instinct, you should not be there in the first place.

Jesus, people.