Re: [SG 2] Infantry weapons combinations

 
 
In a message dated 12/21/04 11:10:45 AM Pacific Standard Time,	
tom_westbrook@yahoo.com writes:

Its nice to know that sexism (mandatory male service but optional female
 
service) remains constant for an enlightened species.  
 
I figure the  NPC are a variant in the Tuffleyverse (which my games
inhabit  
the dregs of that universe). 
 
The PHR forbids  'women' to serve in the military -- "to valuable as
child 
bearing members of  society" argument thing.  A very Patriarchal
environment.   
"Different roles but Equal value" is the expression  used.
 
The local IC  military discourages women to volunteer as 'ground
pounder' 
warriors (Air  Force, Space forces okay, naval forces if you insist). 
Lots of 
debate in  the IC about that but generally if you insist you can serve
in the	
military.  It's a legal right but one a lot of women don't choose to 
use.  
Shows who the smarter gender is perhaps.
 
Local RH  recruiters doesn't care what "color underwear" you wear -- if
you 
can fight  you're in.  If not, you'll be shot in the field for cowardice
in the 
face  of the enemy.
 
NEA officially	accepts distaff volunteers but if they pass training
they are 
assigned to all  female units and they normally never seem to see combat
... 
unless their  facility is attacked.  Then they fight to survive as all 
soldiers  do.
 
LIRA/LLAR  doesn't usually send enlisted female military members to the 
forces	stuck... assigned, of course ... to this back water world in my 
campaign.  
Female officers are rarely assigned but have to 'watch their  back' due
to 
not all males in the LIRA/LLAR think a woman should be in the  military
in a 
combat functionality.
 
Even Jon T indicated that in the future, equal rights means that females
 
have the duty to be atomized along with the males.
 
So Jon has said  ALL nations draft females?  I would think that would
vary by 
group.	 

Laserlight, so	I can know for my IF mercs in the IC service -- does the
IF 
take female  soldiers?	I'll include them if the IF sends them.
 
I do like the Isreali government model, if your a citizen, you must 
serve, 
regardless of gender.

I have no  problem with that as a generality but I do have a problem
with 
that as a  'covers all' absolute.
 
In the NPC you	can be a civilian leader if female much, much easier
then 
being  a female combat officer.  Nothing prevents it officially and if
you are  
really gifted you can raise to the highest ranks in the NPC but it's
unlikely  
you'll be considered a prime candidate for marriage by a majority of NPC
 
males.	A version of "The second most important group are the warriors, 
the most 
important group are the mothers of  warriors..."

Gracias,

Glenn  "warbeads"