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In reply to the discussion: On the Reality of Combat [View all]What does it gain? How do you know some women wouldn't be better soldiers than some men, and save someone's life who would otherwise die.
And it treats people according to their individual abilities, not as stereotypes. Let me repeat that - it treats people according to their individual abilities, not as stereotypes.
I got plenty of that stereotyping crap when I was growing up - women couldn't be engineers or scientists because they weren't capable of doing math or understanding science, so good luck getting into engineering school. I remember when CalTech didn't admit women as undergraduates. (Thankfully MIT accepted me, so piss on you, CalTech.)
Women couldn't be astronauts because horrors they'd have to pee in front of men and vice versa, plus well they just weren't up to it physically and gosh you know what happens when men and women are isolated together.
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