home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky alt.romance:15634 alt.romance.chat:22716 soc.singles:35211
- Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,soc.singles
- Path: sparky!uunet!sequent!muncher.sequent.com!rip
- From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Equality between men and women; is there such a thing?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.224852.4686@sequent.com>
- Sender: usenet@sequent.com (usenet )
- Nntp-Posting-Host: sequent.sequent.com
- Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan3.012253.22642@mercury.cair.du.edu> <1993Jan3.020545.13512@eff.org> <93002.201921ICSJM@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 22:48:52 GMT
- Lines: 22
-
- In article <93002.201921ICSJM@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICSJM@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- >definately the term "equal" needs defining......let's look at it from a
- >military point of view.....yes, a woman can fly a jet as good as a man....
- >yes a woman can sail a ship as good as a man....but NO a woman could
- >participate in the jungles of some south eastern country. Maybe as a
- >nurse or medic, but not in the jungle working in teams....especially
- >the work I did in Viet Nam......a womans survival rate would probably
- >be about 2 or 3 seconds.
-
- I agree all the way up to the last point. While it is true that the
- *physical* aspects carring around and M60 maybe too much for a woman,
- I do think that a woman in the situation of a common soldier is *very*
- workable. Isn't the US still the only country that does not allow a
- woman to hold a combat MOS? I know that women have been fighting
- alongside men for years in Isreal, and *alot* of the guerilla outfits
- around the world. Women may not have the sheer physical strength of a
- man, but mentally and emotionally they are equal if not a little bit
- ahead...
-
- rip
- --
- While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
-