I know I'm going to get my balls busted for this so I'll start out by stating the fact that I consider myself very pro feminist in that except for paying for dinner on dates I treat women exactly the same way I treat men. This basically means I'll make the same offensive or innapropriate wisecrack whether you have a penis or not. I'll open the door for you
regardless of your sex if I'm in front of you because I'm polite until I get to know you but if you get to vote and own property you can put the toilet seat down yourself. I believe that women should be payed the same amount for the same job as
a man and should be considered equally for any job they can physically do. I add the physically part because I'm a 5'7 146lb runner, from a family with three generations of fire fighters and know damn good and well I can't physically do the same job as my 5'10 175lb weight-lifting female cousin
fire-fighter can. I am male enough to never admit
this to her face.
My question to all those out there is why isn't there a bigger pro-women in combat movement among femminists out there. I'm not talking about on the right, those people would just as soon surgically attach an apron to any women they're not paying for sex, but on the left. Men are often bashed for the perks they get for their plumbing but rarely recognized for the added responsibilies impressed upon them by both other men and women around them. The largest part of fighting wars (whether they are bullshit or not) is combat and at a time when nobody in their right mind wants to go to the desert why are all these trained and qualified members of the armed forces forbidden to join front-line combat units. You can be damned skippy that if the vietnamese had actually invaded Texas that poltroon in the white house would have been happy to pass the beer bong to a woman to take his place on the flight line.
What I haven't seen is a push on the left side to demand that in addition to being able to serve their country that they be able to kick ass too which is the whole point of having an army in the first place. My whole point is you can't have it both ways. Either you want to be a first class citizen with all the rights AND responsibilities that come with it or you don't. If femminists want real equality they have to demand their right to get shot and shoot back. Otherwise you're just asking to get patted on the butt and sent back to the kitchen while we men figure out how to save america from the heathen and communists. While this is a bit of an Orson Scott Card rant I am asking a real if longwinded question.