Re: [semi OT] Women wargamers -longish

John Atkinson wrote:
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> >with them has always been an odd fit. What bothers me the most is how
> >stupid guys start acting when you interject a female into their
> >environment.
> 
> >2. Most of the problems a rising from females in the military have to
> do >more with us men, and the double fitness standard imposed by the
> Army.
> 
> My favorite pet peeve.  How about going from male/female standards to
> REMF/Real Soldier standards?	Clerk-typists all get the old female
> standards, and combat soldiers _all_ get the male standards (or
> harsher).
> 
> >3. That being said, we're not ready yet for full integration in
combat
> >arms. If it screws up small unit cohesion then I'm against it. And
> like >it or not, when you interject women into the archaic all male
> world of a >combat arms unit, (where sexual innuendoes and humor make
> up 90% of the >banter)  the first priority of the guys usually becomes
> getting laid.
> 
> I know that even in a Guard Combat Engineer company, if a woman walked
> into the sort of conversation we pass the time with, we'd all be up on
> sexual harassment charges.  And when we use sexual analogies for
> everything from demo to small unit tactics, you'd have to have a
> serious paradigm shift if you introduced women.
> 
> John M. Atkinson

Time to bring back the Woman Army Corps ......