From: ikonoqlast@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 11:44:47 AM UTC-7, Will in New Haven wrote:   
      
      
   > > And note that Israel didn't admit women because they suddenly decided they   
   would do a good job, a JUDGE ordered them to.  Nothing countered their lessons   
   they had learned early on, when the genuinely tried women in combat and it   
   genuinely didn't work.   
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   > They did not take women out of combat roles because of some lessons they   
   learned about not doing well. They did it because some old orthodox guys went   
   all shit-for-brains about the danger of their being _raped_   
      
      
      
   Who told you that?  Do you think an experienced commander, would give a fuck   
   about that if combat units with women performed well?   
      
      
      
      
   > By the way, when I said that you weren't trying to write speculative fiction   
   it wasn't because you didn't have women in combat roles. Your reasoning, that   
   no one is doing it now, is the antithesis of speculative fiction.   
      
      
      
   Excuse me, but writing SF doesn't mean I have to accept your Progressive   
   agenda.  I know better how and why society and its components work.   
      
      
      
      
      
   > By all means, don't have women in combat roles, or have them and have it be   
   a disaster. Just not because no one is doing it now.   
      
      
   Actually, if you were paying attention, the REASON was that women don't   
   perform well, that no one (who matters) does it was merely evidence for that.   
      
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