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shamrock_uk · 03-24-2005, 01:09 PM

This is something I'm deeply opposed to myself. In the UK, women were always employed equally in the Armed Forces, but never allowed to serve on the front line. Since the cursed European Human Rights Act, women are now allowed to do so (as well as things like the inclusion of homosexuals in the army, but that's another discussion

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There was this 'champion' woman who made the front pages of the tabloids by being young, pretty and the first woman to fly front line fighter jets. What happened to her? Within 1 1/2 years of this, she became pregnant and was no longer allowed to fly jet aircraft (for medical reasons - after a pregnancy, changes in physiology mean its unsafe to do so). Result - a cool $1m (possibly larger, I forget) of taxpayers money wasted on her training.

Women are different from men, I think its silly to deny this, and the insistence of equality in everything is unrealistic.

03-24-2005, 01:09 PM	#7
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	This is something I'm deeply opposed to myself. In the UK, women were always employed equally in the Armed Forces, but never allowed to serve on the front line. Since the cursed European Human Rights Act, women are now allowed to do so (as well as things like the inclusion of homosexuals in the army, but that's another discussion ) There was this 'champion' woman who made the front pages of the tabloids by being young, pretty and the first woman to fly front line fighter jets. What happened to her? Within 1 1/2 years of this, she became pregnant and was no longer allowed to fly jet aircraft (for medical reasons - after a pregnancy, changes in physiology mean its unsafe to do so). Result - a cool $1m (possibly larger, I forget) of taxpayers money wasted on her training. Women are different from men, I think its silly to deny this, and the insistence of equality in everything is unrealistic.