For those of you who aren't aware of it, women are not allowed on submarines. Yet. In today's news, the Navy announced that female sailors could join sub crews by 2011. Link to news article
As a prior active duty Navy member, I have put up with my share of sexism. Trust me. The military is the last place a woman who believes in equality should go. (I'll be doing a small series on this issue later).
My husband, a submariner, believes very deeply that woman have no business being on submarines. Like an intelligent adult, I asked for his reasons. Using that same intelligence, I not only proved wrong his arguments, I put them under nuclear attack. If the arguments had been cockroaches, even they wouldn't have survived.
Finally, he came out and admitted it. "We just don't want them there. They're going to put too much stress into an already stress-filled environment."
Yep, hear that women. We can't be on submarines because the poor boys can't put up with the stress. Well, if they're that scared of women, I don't think we should be allowing them to operate the damn sub in the first place. I was in the Navy. The only reason women cause stress in the environment is because the men can't act like adults. From personal experience, you try getting your a** slapped five times a day and still manage to try to keep the atmosphere "fun and playful." Try getting hit on approximately every ten minutes, and try to maintain any respect for the little boys they have populating a good portion of the military.
And try studying in the office while five guys are crowded around the computer looking at porn. If you complain, you get nagged, teased, and flat out sexually harassed. Trust me, show any squeamishness about sex or porn or anything, and they'll pile on the stress 10 times higher. Don't complain, and you get hit on even more often.
As always, I have a solution.
Why don't we kick the damn men off the submarines and make the crew all female? We've been trying the whole men thing for over a hundred years. And they still get busted on a regular basis for having porn and computer games on the work computers. I bet a group of women could manage to do just as good as a crew of men, and if a man happened to show up to join our little crew, I bet we could keep our hands off his a**.
As a prior active duty Navy member, I have put up with my share of sexism. Trust me. The military is the last place a woman who believes in equality should go. (I'll be doing a small series on this issue later).
My husband, a submariner, believes very deeply that woman have no business being on submarines. Like an intelligent adult, I asked for his reasons. Using that same intelligence, I not only proved wrong his arguments, I put them under nuclear attack. If the arguments had been cockroaches, even they wouldn't have survived.
Finally, he came out and admitted it. "We just don't want them there. They're going to put too much stress into an already stress-filled environment."
Yep, hear that women. We can't be on submarines because the poor boys can't put up with the stress. Well, if they're that scared of women, I don't think we should be allowing them to operate the damn sub in the first place. I was in the Navy. The only reason women cause stress in the environment is because the men can't act like adults. From personal experience, you try getting your a** slapped five times a day and still manage to try to keep the atmosphere "fun and playful." Try getting hit on approximately every ten minutes, and try to maintain any respect for the little boys they have populating a good portion of the military.
And try studying in the office while five guys are crowded around the computer looking at porn. If you complain, you get nagged, teased, and flat out sexually harassed. Trust me, show any squeamishness about sex or porn or anything, and they'll pile on the stress 10 times higher. Don't complain, and you get hit on even more often.
As always, I have a solution.
Why don't we kick the damn men off the submarines and make the crew all female? We've been trying the whole men thing for over a hundred years. And they still get busted on a regular basis for having porn and computer games on the work computers. I bet a group of women could manage to do just as good as a crew of men, and if a man happened to show up to join our little crew, I bet we could keep our hands off his a**.
