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Women in Combat Roles, Should women be allowed in combat?
Natasha Romanoff
post Feb 24 2015, 02:24 PM
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A simple question that can be quite difficult to answer. Surprised it hasn't showed up in the forums around here, with the variety of topics available in the debate section.

I'll start by listing a few of the pros and cons of the issue, and hand the mic over to you all, so to speak, to continue the list and/or debate your pov.


Common Reasons Listed for Why Women Should Be Allowed in Combat:
1.) If a woman wants to serve her country on the front-lines, so to speak, why deny her that right?
2.) A woman in a combat zone may be able to speak to local women and children in order to collect counterinsurgency information that her male counterpart would not otherwise be able to do because of local customs. I should add that the women who perform these roles are often attached to combat units are not usually a part of them.

Common Reasons Listed for Why Women Shouldn't Be Allowed in Combat:
1.) Men are physically, on average, much stronger than women. How likely is it that a woman is capable of carrying 100+ pounds of gear while running for several miles (not to mention carrying a wounded soldier)?
2.) Women can become a distraction in a combat situation.


Just for the record, I'm talking about equal combat roles, where women and men would fight side-by-side. Unequal combat roles are a whole 'nother can of worms.

Debate away!

EDIT: Because I can't type.

This post has been edited by Candidate Psyduck: Feb 24 2015, 06:43 PM


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post Feb 25 2015, 10:06 AM
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Everyone deserves the right to die on the savage battlefield. Equal combat only makes sense.

I also want to note that while males on average have a larger muscular build, women on average have a higher pain tolerance.


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post Feb 28 2015, 06:57 PM
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I don't think women are going to be much of a distraction when you're in battle, I highly doubt that some dudes will have more lust than sheer adrenaline. I guess that is in battle, though I highly doubt sex is really much of a worry outside of it.

Men might be stronger on average, but that doesn't mean a woman can't be as strong as a man...


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post Jul 17 2015, 11:24 AM
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I think women and men should have the same requirements. If a woman can keep up with everything the men have to do, have at it. But I don't agree with women having lower standards. If they can't perform, it endangers everyone else.
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post Nov 9 2015, 12:51 AM
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I pretty much agree with kaseykg.

Soldiers should follow a certain standard.

If everyone is supposed to be able to run a mile in under four minutes then that's that.

Of course, I say this as a female who is not military, authority or surgeon material.


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post Nov 14 2015, 01:45 AM
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Women, naturally, should be allowed in combat. I don't see a valid argument against that, and I'm sure most people in the society that I live in would agree.

However, standards for women should not be lower for the sake of improving the gap between genders in figures and statistics, which I fear may actually be happening.

If a woman truly cannot perform the tasks asked of them in tests and training, then that's just the way that the cookie has crumbled. Sure, a woman is at a disadvantage, but honestly? When it comes to their life and the lives of others, I don't want to have that be risked just to look more fair to outsiders focused entirely on equality in numbers.

In the long run, that's not fair to anyone, especially those whose lives may be lost by the overlooking of a requirement or two.

The United States already has the problem of overlooking poor performance within our police force. We don't need it in our military, too.

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btw, on the planet I believe is our real home, even children can be in combat. They can be just as powerful as adults, and their bodies don't take more pain than they can handle (plus medics, even enemy medics, would be taking care of them immediately). But of course that's all entirely different from what this thread is about.


I really love and hate the internet sometimes.

It introduces me to all sorts of new viewpoints and experiences from people I would otherwise never meet, enriching my own life and allowing myself to immerse myself into a complete paradigm shift.

However, it also shows me opinions like this.

I cannot honestly understand how, in the year of 2015--you heard me, Two-Thousand-And-Fifteen--I can meet someone who actually defends and condones the usage of child soldiers. The intentional usage of children in an environment frequently compared to Hell or other obscene forms of torture. The intentional usage of children in places where they could very, very easily be raped or kidnapped. The intentional usage of children in places foreign to them, where they could more easily become sick. The intentional usage of children in traumatizing areas committing murder instead of placing them in school. The intentional usage of children as a means of borderline inhumane psychological warfare on "the enemy."

Two-Thousand-And-Fifteen, and this opinion exists and is defended by an Actual Human Being who thinks they're justified in saying this.

Yikes.




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post Nov 14 2015, 04:04 AM
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I think if women can handle it then they should be allowed to fight. If they don't pass their training then they shouldn't be in combat situations. Not all women are weak just as not all men are strong


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(Copy + Pasting so I remember)
Common Reasons Listed for Why Women Shouldn't Be Allowed in Combat:
1.) Men are physically, on average, much stronger than women. How likely is it that a woman is capable of carrying 100+ pounds of gear while running for several miles (not to mention carrying a wounded soldier)?
2.) Women can become a distraction in a combat situation.

1) With the proper training, a woman can accomplish just as much as a male. Many people forget that soldiers don't just get up one day and say "Time for battle!" and are immediately ready for everything. There are years of training involved, and that could make a woman just as strong, if not stronger than men.
2) I agree. They can. If we give them classic RPG armour that's an armoured bikini, that is. If a woman is given the same armour as a man (with slight modifications to allow for a female body type), they won't be distracting. If you don't believe me, just look up "military armour". It leaves no visible feminine figure.
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