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Americas Military
For decades, America’s military, and it’s citizens, have been grappling with a very important decision: should women be allowed to serve in combat? This issue has been in the media since I was in elementary school, and so far there is no end in sight. Although there are many advocators for allowing women to fight in the military conflicts, such as liberal feminists and equal rights activists, there is a great number of people, including military and government figureheads, who strongly disagree. Which leads me to ask the question, “what’s the big deal?” Why is it that there is such controversy about this topic? The pro- arguments are pretty straight-forward, mostly stemming from equal rights for women. But what I want to learn is what is the underlying basis for peoples desire to keep women out of combat? They have to have more legitimate reasons than just being chauvinistic. In this paper, I will use government documents, independent studies, as well as media articles to explore the reasons that women should not be allowed on the front lines, as well as why they should. One of the strongest arguments against allowing women in combat is physical inadequacies. Antagonists argue that women are not physically qualified to serve in combat situations. In her article, “Sex and the Soldier”, Stephanie Gutmann claims that, The female soldier is on average, about 5 inches shorter than the male soldier, has half the upper-body strenght, lower aerobic capacity, and 37% less muscle mass. She cannot pee standing up... She tends to get pregnant. Whereas these are all facts, do they really impact a woman’t ability to perform routine military duties? There is proof that they do not. In the Israeli army, women are “perfectly capable of handling a tank... many are better shots than men, and others are certainly more courageous” (Newsweek, 72). I find it difficult to believe that all men who enlist in the armed forces have t... Please login to view comments from other users.
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