We may be smaller than men(tee hee she said looking at her five-foot-eleven-inch frame) but science is beginning to show we're just as capable.
I could have told them that a long time ago.
Come to think of it, I think I did.
My old friends from the days when I worked in the book stores can attest to the fact that I easily, repeatedly, lifted hundred-pound stacks of boxes of books (except for the two months after I cracked a rib... man! that was a bad cough!), and still today have no difficulty ascending stairs carrying such loads, even after the knee injury (just don't ask me to carry the stuff back down the stairs). I've never considered myself to be a freakish physical specimen, either (mental is another story).
Men and women are always going to be blessedly different, but the only real excuse for keeping women out of the service is a sociological one -- somebody needs to birth them babies. If you're an ordinarily healthy single woman, or if you're already finished with your reproducin' ways, the military ought to be able to train you as hard as any scrawny high school graduate to defend your loved ones.
Sheltering us from harm makes us weaker, and that is something we need not -- must not -- be. For the good of both nation and species.
(HT:Instapundit)
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Interesting :)
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