The Gender Equality Checkpoint

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by sexobon

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As for why this hasn't changed, ask Obama. He could change it with the stroke of a pen. It's not in the Constitution, it's not a law, it's just a matter of public policy.

... and not wanting to hurt the delicate feelings of the US Marine Corp

[xoxoxoBruce]

Delta-cup force?

[sexobon]

Because the politicians couldn't take the heat from something like this happening to military servicewomen:

Family says daughter raped repeatedly while held by IS

WASHINGTON (AP) — American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, U.S. intelligence officials told her family in June. ...

[sexobon]

Should've been done in his first year in office; but, he procrastinated until he could pass any problems with implementation on to his successor.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Procrastinated? You're assuming it was even on the list of pressing issues when he took office. I doubt it was even on the list. You're right that it's a politically hot button issue with some people, primarily conservatives. So even if it did come up in the Oval Office, it would be passed to the DOD for action.

[sexobon]

The brass at DOD don't make changes to public policy without considering the political ramifications to their boss and getting his approval.

You seem to be saying that gender equality wasn't a priority for Obama when he took office and that primarily conservative politicians would be concerned about fallout, like that described in post 211, resulting from changes.

I can accept those as rationales for Obama's procrastination.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'm saying gender equality in the military probably wasn't on his list of priority issues when he took office in 2008. It certainly wasn't on most peoples at the time, with all the shit going on. I can picture a shitstorm of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the conservatives and K street, how the Kenyan Devil is sending mothers/sisters/daughters to be raped and slaughtered by the a-rabs.

[sexobon]

Anyway, better late than never. If after the policy change any female combatants are taken hostage, we should have a Delta-cup Force to send in and rescue them.

[sexobon]

Females who make it through Delta Force training are gonna have pecs!


Just kidding, developing their pectoral muscles isn't going to change their cup size.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by sexobon

Females who make it through Delta Force training are gonna have pecs!

Don't look now, but....

History in the making: 2 women will graduate from Army Ranger course
CNN -Holly Yan and Barbara Starr - 8/18/15

(CNN)Two women are about to make history by becoming the first female soldiers to graduate from the Army's exhausting Ranger School.

They're among the 96 students who will graduate from the intensive training program Friday in Fort Benning, Georgia.

This was the first year the Army opened the course to women on a trial basis.

"This course has proven that every Soldier, regardless of gender, can achieve his
or her full potential," Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh said in a statement.

But it's not clear what awaits the female graduates.
The Pentagon isn't expected to make final decisions about exactly
what combat roles women will be allowed to fulfill until later this year.

This is Army, but it's a matter of time til the Marines will have to face up too.

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Don't look now, but....

History in the making: 2 women will graduate from Army Ranger course
CNN -Holly Yan and Barbara Starr - 8/18/15



This is Army, but it's a matter of time til the Marines will have to face up too.

You also make a good point:
If there is a first organization to get rid of gender barriers, and others to follow.. There is going to be a last.

Will it be the navy? Will it be the marines? The national guard? Who will we laugh at as the new era's catholic school boys? Who will we make gay jokes about for years passed the point where gay jokes are still a thing? Who will be the new bottom of the progressive barrel for as long as we live in gravity filled environments and can still make sense of top and bottom metaphors? Stand up future victims of mockery, show yourself.... Or you know, don't stand up, don't do anything, it's kind of the defining feature of the position.

[sexobon]

Even if those two female Ranger School graduates can't be assigned to the Ranger Regiment right away, they should allow them to start using men's restrooms IMMEDIATELY!

[xoxoxoBruce]

You're using and extra large spoon paddle.

[Lamplighter]

They made it !

Two women make Army Ranger history
Fox News - 8/21/15

Capt. Kristen Griest, 26, of Orange, Connecticut, and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, 25, of Copperas Cove, Texas,
will become the first women to wear the Army's coveted Ranger tab when they graduate
alongside 94 male soldiers Friday at Fort Benning.
…
Spc. Christopher Carvalho, a medic in the same Ranger school class,
said his skepticism ended on the first road march when the women
left many of their male counterparts far behind.
…
Classmates 2nd Lt. Michael Janowski and 2nd Lt. Zachary Hanger both told of how
Haver and Griest jumped in to help carry heavy loads when other male trainees were too fatigued to assist.

Apparently, one soldier still couldn't appreciate the irony of his ingrained orientation:

Hanger called the women "absolutely physical studs"

[xoxoxoBruce]

I wonder if there's a reason they're both officers? Coincidence, only officers could apply, being women officers means they are committed to an army career and in better shape, the army chose officers so they would less likely get shit from testosterone pumped grunts?