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From: karen@randvax.UUCP (Karen Isaacson)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Women in combat
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 16:48:55 EDT
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> > {J. Eric Roskos}
> 
> >However, I noted with an extreme degree of irritation how many congressMEN
> >made the blatantly sexist remark, "obviously no one feels women should have
> >to go into combat;" and even more, I noted that no women I knew challenged
> >this statement.  They generally agreed with it.

OK, I'll challenge it.  I think (subject to requiring a certain level of
physical strength, as we do with fire fighters) that women should have to
go into combat if men do.  Of course, I'd just as soon no one had to
go to war at all, at all.
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		Karen Isaacson
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