Quote: (09-28-2015 01:00 AM)Blick Mang Wrote:
There are a lot of misconceptions floating around here.
- It's a qualification, not an assignment to a Ranger unit. Basically just a patch to put on your sleeve.
- Once these women are passed through Ranger school, they'll be returned to their original units doing the original jobs they signed up for.
- Women are ineligible to enlist as 11B (which prohibits them from combat or service in infantry units)
- Service in Range regiments is closely regulated and hand-picked, even for men; women will never be on the front lines.
It's politically correct symbolism, not a transformation of the U.S. military. The fact they were paper-pushed through is cause for concern, but it takes a certain amount of paranoia to believe our military doesn't recognize the inherent differences between men and women. I'm not at all alarmed or threatened by this, and you shouldn't be either.
I'm going to beg to disagree with you here, Blick.
I see what you're saying, but I don't think it's just harmless symbolism. Symbolism means something. That's how the slippery slope begins.
Once they begin there, then they will take it one step further.
The same way they foisted gay marriage on the country. Slowly, steadily. And everybody sat on their fucking asses and were too chickenshit to do anything. They rationalized, rationalized, and rationalized. And now the floodgates are open. And now they're pushing other types of unacceptable behavior, like transsexualism.
I don't see it as just "paper-pushing" women through the system.
Something more insidious than that is going on. They are conditioning the public and military personnel that there is an equivalency here. This is part of the acculturation process, part of the propaganda offensive. They are trying to chip away at barriers that have been up for centuries.
Some things need to be off limits.
Women need boundaries. Women need to know that there are spaces that are inviolate, that they cannot encroach on.
Women in America have lost the concept of boundaries. They think they have free rein to do whatever they want. And the power structure here permits it.
So it isn't just harmless. It's symptomatic of a deep-rooted disease that needs to be eradicated once and for all.
No. Harmless? No way. Once they get qualified, then they're going to want the same privileges that men get, without having to do any of the work or shoulder any of the burden.
There are certain spaces where women just don't belong. I don't even care if they can do the job. They need to know there are boundaries.
They have their space, and we have ours.