It absolutely was pushed for by women because the promotion track favored those with the combat service ribbons and line officers. Women were being denied opportunities, you see.
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Women were no more the driving force for this than illegal immigrants are the driving force for illegal immigration, or drag queens for drag-queen story hour. There are larger forces at work trying to undermine traditional norms.
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Their effort succeeded because it was destructive hence useful for the progressive project but female career military officers really did make the effort because of personal interest.
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And Rosa Parks really did want to end segregation. But she did not just randomly get on a bus one day. There was a long-planned, well-financed campaign behind her. If this was only about a few butch women who wanted to join the military, it never would have gotten off the ground.
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It was a bunch of butch women who were already in the military. Rosa Parks was literally selected by a committee. The butch women in the military were their own committee.
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The lawsuits against VMI and the Citadel, the insane overreaction to Tailhook, the nonstop propaganda from Hollywood and academia. If you think this happened organically, drive by a handful of mid-level women officers, I don't know what to tell you.
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VMI and the Citadel aren't the US military. That was obviously part of the drive to undermine alternate educational institutions. The US military itself had butch women who pushed for this stuff themselves specifically for promotion opportunities.
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If there were not powerful forces behind them, they would have been laughed out of the military.
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The "powerful force" behind them was tradcon men not wanting to say no to the poor women.
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A traditional conservative would want zero women in the military.
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Tradcons aren't very traditional. Not wanting women in the military would hurt women's feelings and women's feelings are very important to tradcons.
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Were not on the same page with definitions I'm afraid. If you are talking about NRO-style Republicans, there is nothing traditional about them. They accepted the tenants of liberalism. A tradcon would want women to be home, married, raising a family.
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The military has a lot of NRO-style Republicans and always has. On top of that the right has hardened up quite a bit over the years in noticing just how socially destructive women's demands are while tradcons have gone the other direction.
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