UK: Woman who failed frontline infantry fitness test given a ‘pass’ by the Army until furious male soldiers who HAD completed course staged rebellion.

NYLON_G · 2019-01-13T11:09:16+00:00

What would be the point of appointing someone to a job they clearly cannot do? What next lifeguards unable to swim at the beach? Fraud has gone too far.

furchfur · 2019-01-13T10:42:47+00:00

Most positive discrimination in favour of females never comes to light but one way to fight discrimination against men is to go public:

From the article:

"The soldiers rounded on commanders at the Infantry Battle School in Brecon, Mid-Wales, accusing them of lowering standards to suit women. When top brass refused to back down, troops contacted The Mail on Sunday to expose what they claimed was ‘positive discrimination’.

Fearing a public backlash if they allowed her result to stand, commanders backed down and asked Cpl Dougherty and the other soldiers who failed the march to leave"

Wisemanner · 2019-01-13T11:06:07+00:00

The fight back begins.

KappaHaus · 2019-01-13T13:23:16+00:00

They should have watched G. I. Jane.

I thought the whole point in equality is so anyone can try to reach the benchmark? She should be allowed to try the test as many times as anybody else to pass in her own time...not given a pass even if she 'technically failed'.

Blutarg · 2019-01-13T18:32:22+00:00

Good for those soldiers!

autotldr · 2019-01-13T18:00:29+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 94%. (I'm a bot)

A female soldier was allowed to continue on an Army selection course even though she failed a vital fitness test - triggering a rebellion among male troops who had passed.

Cpl Dougherty - the only woman on the course - and 14 others who also failed were told they could carry on, sparking a furious backlash among the 75 soldiers who passed the test.

'Commanders wanted to get Cpl Dougherty through the course, almost at any cost, even if she wasn't fit enough and even if that meant leniency being shown to weaker male soldiers who also failed the march.

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CrestfallenWolf · 2019-01-13T18:16:04+00:00

This gave me an equality boner. And damn what a savage way to close an article.

Time to argue with a feminist to wash that decadent optimism out of my mouth and get back to America...

billybones11 · 2019-01-13T11:30:25+00:00

Yay for less women dying at war?

Title	UK: Woman who failed frontline infantry fitness test given a ‘pass’ by the Army until furious male soldiers who HAD completed course staged rebellion.
Author	furchfur
Upvotes	264
Comments	31
Date	January 13, 2019 10:39 AM UTC (7 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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