About Time - Military Combat Ban For Women Will Be Lifted

This week (ca. 1/23/2013), the Pentagon announced it was going to lift rules banning active duty female soldiers from serving in combat. This was long overdue!

There Are Two Sides To Almost Everything In Life

Equal rights, equal pay etc. between genders also implies equal responsibilities and duties etc. I strongly believe, women are up to the task and that women in the military will not undermine the combat readiness of their male fellow soldiers.

If I am not mistaken, then history is full of examples where women played crucial combat roles in winning wars by supporting male soldiers etc.

Cherry Picking Women’s Rights

I remember well that prominent feminists in Germany liked to cherry pick. I don’t remember that any of these feminists of the past several decades seriously demanded or insisted that Germany ought to change the constitution to allow women to be drafted into military service or even to be involved in military combat like men.

For some time, some influential European women are demanding gender quotas for corporate boardrooms. Never heard these same women demanding gender quotas for the military. Hhm!

If my limited knowledge of the history of suffragettes in the UK or USA serves me right, these suffragettes were also more interested in fighting for voting rights than for military combat rights.