Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: panix!mara@cmcl2.nyu.EDU (Mara Chibnik) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Military Discrimination (was Re: Sexism vs. Men's Oppression) Message-ID: <1991Jun5.133339.8713@panix.uucp> Date: 5 Jun 91 20:03:07 GMT References: <2590@winnie.fit.edu> <16830@helios.TAMU.EDU> Organization: (getting there) Lines: 25 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu In article <16830@helios.TAMU.EDU> willis@cs.tamu.edu (Willis Marti) writes: >As a kind of followup to the postings on women in the military, I'd like to >point out that the debate is focused on the wrong question. The issue >should not be : >"Women should be allowed to be in a combat unit if they so choose." >but rather >"The military should be allowed to assign women to combat units as it >chooses." [example deleted] >Does this restatement of the issue change/affect anyone's opinion? Not mine. (I believe that the armed forces should not discriminate on the basis of sex.) I should perhaps include the caveat that if the military sees fit regularly to keep combat troops entirely male (or female, for that matter), I might want to look into the reasons for that, and perhaps to protest them. -- cmcl2!panix!mara Mara Chibnik mara@dorsai.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.