10/26/2005: All-woman C-130 crew

[sktzofrenic]

Times are changing? In a world where there were no firearms a woman would be laughed to scorn if she joined the military. But just because you can shoot a gun doesn't mean you have the mental toughness to handle combat situations. Women are a liability on the field...

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by sktzofrenic

But just because you can shoot a gun doesn't mean you have the mental toughness to handle combat situations.

Or have a penis.

[mitheral]

This is my favourite all female in male dominated space crew.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by sktzofrenic

Times are changing? In a world where there were no firearms a woman would be laughed to scorn if she joined the military. But just because you can shoot a gun doesn't mean you have the mental toughness to handle combat situations. Women are a liability on the field...

What are you basing this on? From USA Today:

Army women in support units exposed to combat don't have higher post-traumatic stress or depression rates than their male counterparts a few months after leaving Iraq, according to a pilot study due Thursday.
It's believed to be the first research comparing the mental health of men and women doing violence-prone support jobs — medics, mechanics, drivers — in Iraq, says Army Lt. Col. Carl Castro, chief of military psychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

"If the argument is, women can't handle the stresses of combat as well as men, we see no evidence of a sex difference in these units," Castro says. Women can't serve in frontline combat, "but truck drivers in Iraq have the dangerous jobs," he says, and Army women fill about 10% of such support jobs.

Castro gave mental disorder screening tests to a random sample of men and women in these posts — 50 women and 300 men — three months after ending deployment. He says there wasn't a statistical difference between the two sexes: about 6% of men had depression, 8% of women; 11% of the men and 12% of women had PTSD symptoms.

"It's possible that sex differences could develop later on," says Castro, "but right now we don't think women need any more mental health help than men."

Edited for length - full article here http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...s-stress_x.htm

[Karenv]

Originally Posted by sktzofrenic

Times are changing? In a world where there were no firearms a woman would be laughed to scorn if she joined the military. But just because you can shoot a gun doesn't mean you have the mental toughness to handle combat situations. Women are a liability on the field...

Don't come between a lioness and her cubs. Or a woman and her children. Or a woman and her family. Or community. Or country.

Women don't get into fights as precipitously, but when they do the Israeli army has found that they fight more fiercely.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by sktzofrenic

Times are changing? In a world where there were no firearms a woman would be laughed to scorn if she joined the military. But just because you can shoot a gun doesn't mean you have the mental toughness to handle combat situations. Women are a liability on the field...

Yah...women are fer rapin' after the pillaging is over with. Women are fer bearin' more warrior baby boys and cookin' chow for the real fighters. Women are fer using as barter to get a new horse after the one you were ridin' was hacked out from under you by a screaming Celt wearin' nuthin' but wode and a battleaxe!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by sktzofrenic

Times are changing? In a world where there were no firearms a woman would be laughed to scorn if she joined the military. But just because you can shoot a gun doesn't mean you have the mental toughness to handle combat situations. Women are a liability on the field...

I disagree but welcome to the Cellar. Stick around and maybe we can find something to agree on.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by sktzofrenic

...Women are a liability on the field...

There are planes.

And then there are fields.

I would think not understanding the finer points that distinguish them would also be somewhat of a liability.
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[mrnoodle]

That's a lot of stewardesses for such a small crew. Where's the driver?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Somewhere over Colorado looking for her target.