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Monday, January 28, 2013

Women in Combat— This is Equality?


This is no joke, and yet the Facebook website proudly displaying this poster, a website dedicated to ground troops, received 629 “Likes” and 149 “Shares,” as of this writing, alongside a number of comments taking it as a joke. One comment suggested a backlash against women in combat to come, and I won’t be surprised if that backlash comes in the form of increased rapes, adding to the present epidemic of sexual assaults in the military. But let’s be clear: it’s not women in combat that will be responsible. The responsibility will be with men in combat with antiquated, macho, misogynistic attitudes, and a military system that bolsters them.

Women who join the military have another think coming if they think the military values equality. As it is in reality, the military is the last place a woman can expect to be treated as an equal. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57566084/pentagon-battling-military-rape-epidemic/

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/bernard-will-the-military-finally-address-the-epidemic-of-sexual-assault-1.4504483

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