A headline in the British press restores ones faith in human nature.
First woman to join infantry regiment since defence chiefs lifted ban on females serving in combat units quits after two weeks
Apparently
"In 2016, then Prime Minister David Cameron said it was essential that the make-up of the Armed Forces reflected society and he lifted the ban on women serving in combat units."
I have to concede what people keep saying to me is true, that there was really virtually no difference between the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour Blairites. Theresa May, of course, is a Blairite and so is Michael Gove.
The full story is here.
The full story is here.
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ReplyDeleteWoman can kill - but they tend to have to feel that the person they are killing is evil, that removing them from the world is a moral necessity in the defence of their children and so on. Killing as-a-job is quite a different thing - for example, as far I know, there were no professional female bounty hunters in the West - that was a job (well paid legal killing) that was open to anyone - but no woman wanted to go up to someone she did not know and shoot them dead. This is not an attack on women, if anything it is an attack on us men - it may be necessary to shoot dead people we do not know (after all my last post features two bounty hunter characters - both of whom are doing what needs to be done), but there is something problematic about how we men have historically found this so relatively easy to do. At the Battle of Fredericksburg a Confederate Sergeant went out into no-mans-land (under threat of fire from both sides) to give water and other aid to battle wounded Union (i.e. enemy) soldiers. Both sides thought him mad - perhaps he was the only sane person there. And no I would have not have done what he did - I am not that good a man.
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