Lets hope we don’t have a real war until K-selection shifts us back to normal psychologies.
Despite considerable backlash from within the service, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said again Monday that the Marine Corps infantry and Navy SEALs will open up to women, no matter what.
After receiving heated comments from both male and female Marines who participated in and ran a Marine Corps integration study, Mabus clarified Monday at a forum by the City Club of Cleveland that many of the gender gaps on performance could be closed with more training and leadership…
“I’m not going to ask for an exemption for the Marines,” Mabus said at the event. “It’s not going to make them any less fighting effective. In fact I think they will be a stronger force, because a more diverse force is a stronger force.”
The Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force released a summary of its findings late last week, which indicated that male units exhibited superior performance on 69 percent of combat tasks, and also that women suffered injuries at twice the rate of men.
The very next day, Mabus said in an interview with NPR that an improper mindset was to blame for the results, that is, both the male and female Marines didn’t believe that women could measure up to men from the start, and as a result, that’s exactly what happened.
But both male and female Marines intimately involved in the experiment quickly objected to Mabus’ characterization of the situation. Sgt. Danielle Beck, who took part in the rigorous test, said that Mabus threw the every female participant and the Marine Corps under the bus with his comments.
I love that this asshole tried to continue on his equalist path, and the real women attacked because his assessment basically said they were too weak mentally. The feminist navel gazers loved his fantasy bullshit, but the women who actually experienced the reality, not so much. Any one of those women is more qualified to lead than this idiot.
It is unbelievable how strange the nation gets when resources are free.
Bring the apocalypse.
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Diverse forces aren’t stronger.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/?page=full
But then, it’s not like the Marines didn’t just make the exact same measurements and come to the exact same conclusions. Units with women underperformed compared to male-only units, combat AND non-combat.
Mabus doesn’t believe in math.
And that link about the downside of diversity makes perfect sense in light of this website. Those who are of different X (race, income, background, religion, etc) are to some extant not part of the group, but part of the other. If you are an r or a K, you don’t associate with ‘the other.’ r’s don’t want to be out grouped, and K’s are concerned about protecting the group and group identity.
I wonder if the Navy Secretary is aware the at the woman’s mile world record is 4:12. To be competitive at the mile in College and man has to run it in about 4:05. Thus the peak athletic ablity for this even for a woman is about average for younger and lager group of males. This carries over into a lot of athletic skills. I’m sure superior leadership can overcome outright physical limitations.
Meanwhile the Chinese military resembles a real life clone army…
LOL! Very True.