[QUOTE=Profane;207353]Why are we even talking about women in the military when it is a recent phenomenon? It proves next to nothing because we don’t understand, yet, how women function in the military and whether or not the male/female ratio has an impact on stress levels in female soldiers, feelings of isolation, etc. It’s a lot more complicated than straight up warfare-related PTSD. As bad as being mortared is, it doesn’t help when your only designation as a female soldier is that of whore, bitch or dyke. And besides hearing that from women soldiers - I’ve had male soldiers tell me the same thing of female soldiers. Made for some nice arguments with my ex.
So, no. PTSD rates by gender do nothing for your argument. They would if the military was split evenly across genders.
Besides, most games have class systems. Some of the classes are support. Engineers, medical, etc. The military uses women in mostly support positions. Body armor would not necessarily be a factor in a support class (not in the game world, anyway). Now, if you’d said female avatars couldn’t be in the ‘Heavy’ class within Brink’s world, then sure. I could buy it.[/QUOTE]
Wrong, women have been in wars/battles since war existed. Mainly however, in the ancient eras of time women had more important roles than battle. There have been many, upon many females who were honored in battle across the timeline.
It was a rare occurrence though in ratio to men who were skilled in battle for a variety of genetic anomalies. I can imagine a culture of females with the genetic myostatin deficiency(possibly amazons). However that may be statistically you will understand that they fall under the category of statistically significance of p<.05 as an invalid representation of the population, not to mention the population of today is genetically different than 1,000 plus years ago.
One will find that most famous female war mongers are in a sense ones who carried leadership roles. Female leaders, still a rarity are not unheard of but it still is quite different than bashing a woman in the face with a club till shes dead, or filling her skull with lead. Leadership and battle roles require different traits to be successful. Basic instincts we developed over the centuries strengthened our abilities to survive, against other humans. It is only basic instinct that women not be killed, but assimilated into the population. It is basic instinct to not allow women to fight other men, because a lack of physical and psychological opportunity to compete. In the rare cases women do fight, it is naturally as a last resort.
As far as the PTSD, I don’t agree. And, my quotes come from a leader in the military and a scientist who is specific for differences in women. I think they would know what they’re talking about. I worked in a kitchen for a few years who were worse than the “worstest” fithy sailors. Women were treated like whores, called names, and even borderline raped when they came back into the kitchen. Never once did they show the same symptoms. The only difference is they can choose to leave anytime they want. Military is all about breaking you down into nothing so nothing effects you. I am for women have the opportunity, but they just don’t hold up as well.
And your last part of your comment makes sense, if in a war women were having large causalities I think that would change though. The whole idea of women in support roles is to keep them out of battle. And, that is what I am talking about specifically. Being on the opposite side and killing females has not been “honorable” for most cultures across time. And, is something most men in the world do not want to do. Neither with children, its demoralizing, and some military leaders through out time exploit this advantage of demoralizing enemy troops by sending women and children to fight. It is in a sense a weakness of man for a variety of reasons. Thus, I don’t agree with it being fantasied in modern combat styled game, something everyone can relate to. You as a female can say its ok, but its similar to how a child says he wants to goto war.
But I don’t take photos of my boobs, mate. They’d just end up on the internet, and then one day maybe my boss finds the photos, starts blackmailing me for sex…I end up on drugs and hooking… Wait, I think that’s a Lifetime movie directed at teens. snickers
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Maybe a Scotsman and his kilt.