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- From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Equality...
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 01:23:27 GMT
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- In article <93003.182634ICSJM@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICSJM@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- >1--women don't have the same strength as men....a 110 lb. woman can not carry
- > her partner 25 miles back to a pick up point, and arrive on time
-
- I don't think a 110lb male could carry his partner that far either.
- I do agree with you that men are naturally stronger, but then men are
- also bigger and more heavily boned, therefore able to carry the extra
- muscle around...
-
- >2-I don't care WHAT kind of training a woman has, she still cannot hit as hard
- > as a man.
-
- With the right training, she doesn't have to. A good roundhouse kick
- from a woman will put down just as fast as one from a man.
-
- >3- Men have an inate behavior towards violance.....a woman would have to be
- > trained, and the training would be too time consuming.
- >4- A woman could not do what my partner and I did, in NAM.....I don't care how
- > much training she had, a woman would not have survived.
-
- I don't think anyone is saying that a woman could do what you did in
- Nam, and I don't know if I even want to know what that was. There
- are, however, some things in a combat situation that a woman could do.
-
- I think too much emphasis has been put on a woman's "enate"
- disposition to perserve life. Men have that also. Just because we
- don't bring babies into the world, doesn't mean that we value life any
- less.
-
- *Anyone* can be trained to kill, and will kill if put in the right
- set of circumstances, I don't care *what* they say. You push the
- right buttons, and a woman will lean toward violence just as much as
- a man.
-
- I think going back and forth on this is really pointless, we are all
- agreeing on the basic ideas here, women can't funtion the same way as
- a man in a combat situation, and yes, there are some things that a
- woman just can't do. I just don't buy that a woman will not kill
- just because she is a woman.
-
- But by Gawd this is a stimulating thread!
-
- rip
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