So, we should ignore everything we know about biology? I'm concerned that unwillingness to endorse female only battalions may reflect an unacknowledged prejudice against women's soldiering capacity.
Of course men and women can do all kinds of jobs in segregated groups but 'because they can' isn't a good reason for doing that. Need something better to justify segregation by gender or by race.
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I kind of thought the life and death element made it an exceptional case. Again, does your resistance to the idea reveal what you really think about women's soldiering capacities?
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It's exceptional as a job, yes, but the argument that this requires gender segregation has yet to be made convincingly. I've told you my reasoning. I've no idea if women can meet standards for physical combat. If some can, you'd need to give good reason to segregate
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I gave the reason: mating behavior is unlikely to be consistent with battlefield protocol. But to be clear, I was responding to an argument. I haven't looked into the data. I'm just offering an alternative to the usual women in or out dichotomy.
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Well, that's the thing to show then.
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Agreed. I wonder if the military is studying this. And, if so, how? Surely we can agree that PC assumptions should not be allowed to corrupt the methodology. Maybe I'll have to look into this.
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