Female soldiers 'forced to fight'

2010-02-21T22:18:38+00:00

What is the point of the article? Are they suggesting they should not have to fight or be treated differently?

thingamagizmo · 2010-02-21T22:39:27+00:00

Is it just me, or is this a terrible article full of contradictions?

Female soldiers in Afghanistan are being left with little choice but to fight the Taliban on the front line.

Senior officers have blocked repeated efforts by ministers to put women in frontline combat.

Um...what?

kanuk876 · 2010-02-21T22:53:28+00:00

I think the situation is something along the lines of:

1) Gov't mandates females can become soldiers. Some females sign up.

2) Senior officers respond, "you can make us hire them, but you can't make us put them in a firefight".

3) Female soldiers end up in firefight despite senior officer's best efforts.

4) Everyone else, including many female soldiers, are like: WTF?

It's a political pissing match between gov't officials with a feminist agenda versus military commanders with an undisclosed agenda. Perhaps the military commanders are concerned that (a) they already have to fight two wars: the one in the field and the one at home called "public opinion", and (b) any and every female soldier casualty is a huge blow on the home front.

Yotsu · 2010-02-21T22:42:39+00:00

Wow. This is why I hate when women demand equal rights. Half the time we aren't willing to do the hard things you men do, like fight in a war. We need to either accept that or go back to the fucking kitchen.

Confucius_says · 2010-02-21T22:34:07+00:00

I don't get what points theyre trying to make. Shes a combat medic doing her job.

rmbarnes · 2010-02-22T01:32:35+00:00

If you read the comments on the article, there are some ex service men pissed off that women get the same pay in the military of easier work. Point of interest.

numb3rb0y · 2010-02-22T00:59:29+00:00

Could someone explain how this continues to be legal? We've had multiple High Court and above rulings that the British military is covered by the Human Rights Act, and Article 14 could not be clearer on gender discrimination being unlawful.

cryptogirl · 2010-02-21T22:53:34+00:00

The hard realities of assymetric warfare have proven that women warriors are just as capable of participating fully in imperialist wars of aggression as their male counterparts. The rest of the world should follow the lead of Canada and Israel and rescind the facially discriminatory policies that keep women from fighting on the front lines in combat roles.

Title	Female soldiers 'forced to fight'
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Date	February 21, 2010 9:57 PM UTC (16 years ago)
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