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Well, I think we've pretty much exhausted the dialogue here, eh? I know I've pretty much said what I have to say. It's probably one of those agree to disagree things.
The bottom line is really that the social impetus is such that women are by and large here to stay in the military. Nothing is really going to stop the forward tide of progress.
Perhaps I've been too harsh. Perhaps women in the military will be the shock troops for the sexes more objectively seeing each other. Maybe if men and women work together closely as a team for months and years at a time, they'll be able to transmit new socially adaptive ways of dealing with each other. It's possible, I suppose.
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We'll get together again in a decade to see how it's going .
If I had to settle for the absolute minimum, women in the draft for stateside only positions, I'd take it. That's likley still going to be thousands of positions that need to be filled.
There's a lot of details to be looked at. In the end, I don't think that total integration or total exclusion are the best answer.
We managed to keep a healthy dialogue civil though, that's a success right there.
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I knew a couple where the guy was in the Navy and his wife was dead-set against women filling positions on-board ships. Basically, her thinking was that the guys would have sex with the women and a bunch of happy homes would be broken up.
Seemed like a sad commentary on several things.
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I saw that ad yesterday It does not make me want to join the Army, nor does it give me chills. I do not want to join the Army. They would take one look at me at not let me in anyway. Plus I despise authority.
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