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I was thinking more like in the Greek term for Amazonians. I'm not denying the existence of female warriors in war. Nowadays the Amazonian can be interprit as women that are strong with masculine features (No, I'm not talking about lesbians) and Physically strong. From what I understand the Amazonian came from Scythia and they fought in many wars. I'm pretty sure they had males fighting along with them in war.
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You put it better Ush. I think Sappho is the poet who inspired the idea of the Amazonian character. From what I understand Plato admired her for being dominating, and fearless in her poetry. As I said before I'm not discreding female warriors, but the amazonic myth? I not too sure they existed.
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That's a posiblity too. But is it fair to consider those female warriors Amazonians? There probably are archeological proofs of their battles. Until is found we will know.
If they are as certain as they are about the Trojan war, lil, that means they are not even vaguely certain at all... and they have more on Troy than Amazons!
There is probably historical basis in them, in that women have fought as warriors over time in anicent history, but a distinct Amazonian culuture is a myth.
But as I say, that really makes no difference to the current debate. No-one reasonable can deny that women can fight. That is not the end of the argument, though.
Basically, the argument is not "Can women serve on the front lines?", because literally the answer is yes.
The question is "Does mixing genders on the front lines work?" And a lot of people think no, and witrh good reason. And if you have to select only one gender... for the reasons of physique outlined above, you'll choose the men.
As to the question CAN it work, rather than does it work... tricky... anything is possible over time, I guess.
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I dont know if this has been mentioned, but in the Second World War, in Russia women fought in the frontlines. They served both as infantry and Snipers, also as pilots, mostly flying in U2 Biplanes on night missions, where they greatly affected the morale of the German soldiers (being bombed when your sleeping for example)
One Russian female fighter pilot was credited with 8 Aerial Kills against the Luftwaffe and a female sniper was if i remember correctly credited with over 200 confirmed kills.
The women units however were segregated because of obvious problems that would become apparent
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i know they don't PMS on their period. FFS? <---no need for that. I am aware of the processes of the female menstrual cycle. I have had a girlfriend who's old enough....if you can manage to believe that.
It's one thing to handle a soldier who is bleeding to death and dying. It's a completely different thing to be around something that bleeds for 7 days and doesn't die....
And he did, and that was indeed the point, wasn't it? Perhaps if you hadn't started to make a broad accusation against all guys, I wouldn't have felt the need to comment.
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I hope you are not saying that I am in the wrong because I was not and will never defend that woman. She could not meet the expectations, so she should not have passed. Plain and simple.
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