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Should Women be Allowed to Fight in a War?
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Gardenlover
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Simply stated, yes. Stand back and brace for impact!
oldaunt
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If they want to, they should.
Great video! And yes, women should be allowed to do anything they want to do.
Nathan
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Women have been fighting in wars...
Paco Dennis
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No. Neither should men.
PeppermintPatty
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Of course. If women want to go to war, why not? Some women are far more fit and trained to fight better than most men. ‘Some,’ not all.
PeppermintPatty
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In a perfect world nobody should.
OneEyedDiva
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Piggybacking off what @Pepper wrote, some women are more fierce than some men. I know a few of them. When a woman enlists in the service, she should expect that she might be sent off to war. If that is the case, then she should fight. However, in a perfect world...I agree with @Paco Dennis but unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world.
CallMeKate
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Kinda frightening to realize what kind of society/leadership we'd have if those men and women *hadn't* fought WWI... or WWII... or... I will never belittle what those who had the courage to fight for their respective countries and to keep things like communism away.
Paco Dennis
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I plum forgot. I promised myself not to comment on anything having to do with war on the SF. I can't handle it. I have PTSD from the Vietnam war and it pushes all my fear buttons. Never again. 
CallMeKate
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You fought in Vietnam? I didn't realize... but I guess I should have because you're the age of others here who went off to war. Chalk it up to a senior moment for me, I guess.I plum forgot. I promised myself not to comment on anything having to do with war on the SF. I can't handle it. I have PTSD from the Vietnam war and it pushes all my fear buttons. Never again.
I also have PTSD from Vietnam and it is the curse of our generation. It affected all of us. It interrupted us.I plum forgot. I promised myself not to comment on anything having to do with war on the SF. I can't handle it. I have PTSD from the Vietnam war and it pushes all my fear buttons. Never again.
Nathan
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I don't have much to say either , prefer to leave it in the past.I plum forgot. I promised myself not to comment on anything having to do with war on the SF. I can't handle it. I have PTSD from the Vietnam war and it pushes all my fear buttons. Never again.
fuzzybuddy
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I was a "male" nurse, as opposed to a "female" nurse, so I worked with women for most of my life. I saw "the little woman" in action. They may be a somewhat disadvantaged for extreme physical activity, as are some men. They have two arms, two legs; and they know how to use them.
No, the poster you are quoting did not serve in the military. He has bragged on here about applying for and being given "conscious objector" status. Not sure how you can have PTSD from something that you never experienced, and to claim it is just a form of stolen valor. Not uncommon, sadly.
As to the OP's question, yes, women should be allowed to serve. Required? I dunno.
PeppermintPatty
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How do you know he hasn’t?
Women are conscripted into the Israeli army, probably many others as well. But I think they usually get non-combat assignments.
The U.S. military has had women in similar positions at least as far back as WW2, probably earlier than that. But they are not subject to the draft.
So the question "Should women be allowed to fight" is too vague to be answerable. Fighting doesn't always mean ground combat. It could mean pushing buttons to launch rockets, etc.
I think the word "allowed" is strange in this context also. Fighting is a necessary evil, not an enjoyable privilege.
The U.S. military has had women in similar positions at least as far back as WW2, probably earlier than that. But they are not subject to the draft.
So the question "Should women be allowed to fight" is too vague to be answerable. Fighting doesn't always mean ground combat. It could mean pushing buttons to launch rockets, etc.
I think the word "allowed" is strange in this context also. Fighting is a necessary evil, not an enjoyable privilege.
David777
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I like how the video artfully sets its audience up expecting a much different kind of response than what it surprises with at the end. Obviously several members didn't watch the full video and are responding to the title question as though that is the actual subject. It is not. Rather an interesting criticism of how males that are dominantly in control of our world are warmongers unlike most females.
Tish
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I don't see why not.