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Women in Combat - What about this?

You know, I dont take movies as truth, direction or any of that nonsense, as they are just movies, sometimes stories based on the truth (??), but they are just entertainment.

However, one of my favourite eastern front movies, is The Cross of Iron. made in 1977, and with a good cast, do go and hire it if you have not seen it already. I vividly remember seeing it in Brandon, Manitoba back in Aug 77 or 78, with a theatre full of young ‘Boxheads‘ from ‘GATES‘, and how they cheered when the Russians took a pounding. It had my hair on end, but it was all in spirit of course, and we all got into it with them.

Anyways I should stop rambling on, and say was I want to.... So here we go...

During WW2 the Russians haad whole battalions of women, who were armed with PPSH 7.62 x 25mm SMGs (known as burp guns)with 30rd and larger capacity drum mags.

They would do a frontal assault on German troops, who were armed with the 5 shot 7.92 x 57mm Kar 98K Mauser.

Of course we must consider the MG34 and 42, plus the MP40‘s etc, anad their ‘orbat‘ from within, but general issue was in fact the bolt action Kar98K.

Sure from a distance, the rifles had the range, and the Russians could be taken out at liesure, but as the Russians advanced well into SMG range the firepower from a battalion of p_issd off women, truly overwhelmed the German forces on many occasions.

Kinda makes ya wonder. There are many Russian women, now all old and weary, but 60 yrs ago, they were doing their bit, and helped save the ‘motherland‘ from the Germans.

Israel too, uses women only units, but to what success I do not know.

As they say "**** hath no fury as a woman scorned".

So with gender equality, if any woman can take it (PT and trg the same) as much as a bloke, the so be it, but my personal feelings are still the traditional ones, and I do not favour women in ground combat roles.

Cheers,

Wes
 
Its funny in a broken-record kinda way, every 2 or 3 months this arguement gets kicked into high gear again. Never fails.

I‘ve said my piece before and am not going to waste the time dealing with a moot point like this one. Don‘t bother trying to give some fact or evidence for either side of the argument, because its been posted on this board at some time or another.
 
Its funny in a broken-record kinda way, every 2 or 3 months this arguement gets kicked into high gear again. Never fails.

I‘ve said my piece before and am not going to waste the time dealing with a moot point like this one. Don‘t bother trying to give some fact or evidence for either side of the argument, because its been posted on this board at some time or another.
Well, I didn‘t mean to regurgitate an old topic - but as I worried it might, it had developed into a "women in combat" argument. I wanted to stick with drafting women (or not).
 
Little off topic. I found this little blurb about Feminists, thought it rather amusing. Few good points thrown in too.

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Who‘s to say what‘s offensive anyway? Just because a few feminist extremists think that something‘s offensive, does the whole society have to change their way of doing things? I don‘t want mother nature being called mother nature anymore, but rather father nature. I don‘t want ships to be referred to as female anymore, but rather male. The phrase "she‘s a good ship" offends me. I don‘t want liberty to be a lady. Why does it have to be lady liberty? Why do people say "she‘s beautiful" when referring to cars? Why not he? Who cares? It‘s just the way things have always been. It‘s not meant to be offensive, so why doesn‘t the offended party pull their head out of their ***, and stop bitching about it.

Why there will never be absolute gender equality is because of the inherent contradictions between equality and liberty. For example, if a guy wanted to say a joke about women at work, or hung pornography in the work place, it would make the women work in an environment that may seem hostile to them. If someone at work frequently referred to women as chicks, and a woman was offended by it, the woman would then be working in a hostile environment. If a woman wants to be treated equally in the work place, then she shouldn‘t be offended at what guys usually talk about. I think it‘s unreasonable for all women to be content with whatever people do at work, and for guys to go out of their way to change their lifestyles to conform to what‘s politically correct. It‘s impossible to live your life without being offended at something. Violence, foul language, pornography, sex, religion, whatever it is, you‘re bound to be offended by it sooner or later. So rather than bitching about it, just deal with it and move on. Men aren‘t out to get women.
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Theres more to the article accusing Feminism being a lot like fascism, i‘ll post the link if anyones interested.
 
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