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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
True, but that is the male's problem, not the female's.
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It's a problem that will cause mistakes though. Felix said he is not ready for it. Lucern said that "it would be disadvantageous to a unit if some guys don't think the women are capable or should be there at all". And he is right. If you have a combat unit made of predominantly men and several women the men would not be as effective because of the mental hurdle of being alongside women.
I'm not saying that it's wrong to have women in combat at all. Just that, exactly as Lucern stated, currently their would be a disadvantage to that unit because of the males attitudes towards those women. Disadvantage in combat situations is a bad thing.
And to take it further, I recall reading (maybe at this forum) about a situation that could occur with prisoners of war. You and your squadmate, a female, are captured and placed in seperate cells. The female is being raped in the next cell and you are aware of it from your own cell but are powerless to do anything to stop it. I imagine that the female would have the training to attempt to mentally deal with this as a possible consequence of her being a captured soldier. You the male in the cell would be the one having the breakdown.
But at any rate.. if females are eventually going to stand side by side with males on the battlefield then this will be a step in that direction. And I think is the males who will need more training that the females to get them over whatever mental barriers they have of serving in the frontlines together.