Wow. Look at that. Blood can actually boil.

[icewolf]

Listening to a story on NPR that's part of a "Women in War" series.

The fact that someone just asserted that no woman would be able to pick up a incapacitated infantryman and that every other available man would just makes my head spin. I can't bench press 250 lbs, but there are plenty of women out there who can. And plenty of men who can't.

Hats off to Michele Norris for not completely losing it and screaming at these people. I would not be able to hold on to my professionalism in the face of such logical deficiency.

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[icewolf010.livejournal.com]

Actually, the "safety" issue was all the evidence she gave. And I recommend you speak to third_base (who's my height but about 40 lbs. thinner) about the technique she used to use to get football players off of fields. Or full grown men out of wrecked cars, for that matter.

As for the social experiment aspect of it, letting us vote and work outside the home was an experiment. Letting us into universities and practice medicine was an experiment. Women becoming able to hold public office has been an experiment. And that's just women: don't get me started on the social experiments involving other races and the disabled. My point is that social experiment is not a dirty word, and I really wish people would stop using it as such.

And you really don't want to get the pregnant lady started on the forced abortions in China. Or, hell, the foot-binding in China that went on as recently as 20 years ago in the backwaters. Would you like to see the paper I wrote on genital mutilation legislation that had to be passed in NYS because it was slipping through elective surgery loopholes? How about 13 year old girls being raped by their cousins by way of a forced marriage, not in some third world country, but right here in our own state of Utah.

I know plenty, but these days, between the nausea and the tiredness and the work and the school, I'm constrained to flybys.

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[the-mithril-man.livejournal.com]

"Would you like to see the paper I wrote on genital mutilation legislation that had to be passed in NYS because it was slipping through elective surgery loopholes?"

You know me, of course I would.