http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/20/us/jessica-lynch-where-is-she-now/
I dont know how many of you rememer when Jessica Lynch was taken prisoner in Iraq- Jessica was a cute blond haired blu eyed girl -- in other words much closer to "the girl next door" than the "bull dyke"
She was not in a "fighting unit" but due a series of events she was captured and her photo was on te Natonal news every day- Had the Iraqi side not been already so beat up and it s leadership in disaray, they could have/would hav used this national trauma (in the Us) much more strategiclly than they did-
Her rscue was of the highet importance and she was rescued- She was treated with a hero s welcome and the military, media and politicians wrapped up her story in a nice neat "hero bow" = It was told she had fought valiantly till eventally sudueded by her captors- a regular GI Jane etc etc you get the point
They kept the rape and sexual assault she endured quiet among oter truth s of her story that she eventually set straight years later
This is no knock on Jessica Lynch whatsoever- She is a wounded veteran and former POW- The gist of the story is that her story was not unique in Iraq but it was treated that way thru no fault of he own-
If anyone thinks women on the front lines will have to maintain standards now in place for men, they are naive, have not takn into account existing examples like this one among many others and just just not very wise-
The standards for women will not be the same no matter how much it is said otherwise- ther will be no equality due to political pressures and media pressure to "make the story work"
It will be yet another farce of "equality" were it generally does not exiist-
If anyone thinks a platoon of women captured and exploited by the enemy won t be used by the enemy to their advantage many mulitples more so than a platoon of men- you are in denial
No matter how hard some people wil try to pretend otherwise, men and women are DIFFERENT- There will ALWAYS be areas in life/society etc. were those natural differences will be an advantage in some ways and a disadvantage in others
DIFFERENT does not mean less than or greater than as a whole
This is all about politics and BS and nothing to do with a Natioanl need for female front line soldiers - As much as an over seas enemy would use captued women to their advantage , it would be nothing to various political groups at home- Women on the front lines would be used as political pawns by many but none would use them as much as the groups/ ideologies,/people that are pushing the hardest to make this happen now
