A Woman in the Marines
August 22, 2011
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER features this story today of a woman who joined the Marines to follow in the footsteps of her deceased boyfriend, who was killed in the Marines. One can’t help but feel for this woman’s grief and loneliness, but warriors are not made in this way.
Most articles about the entry of women into the military depict noble motives, except for the one motive that should count: I am the best person for the job. Is this woman the best person for the job? We know that she is much weaker physically than almost any man. We know that men and women interact on the job as men and women. Her fellow Marines are said to view her as a “kid sister.”
We learn that she has just married someone else and presumably will have children. The military has invested enormous dollars in her training, dollars that could have gone to training a man, and she will probably be waylaid from her duties by motherhood or waylaid from motherhood by her duties.
The real question is not why this woman wanted to join but why the Marines wanted her.
— Comments —
Pan Dora writes:
If a man was so eager to have her job no one was going to block the door to the recruiting office. I don’t see why she has some obligation not to do as she desires so some man can have her job.
Laura writes:
That is positively false. Have you never heard of affirmative action? Women have taken away jobs from men. And while some other woman would have stepped in this woman’s shoes, she took advantage of active discrimination against men.
Buck O. writes:
Pan Dora is clueless. The United States Marine Corps has no problem recruiting men. They are forced to accept women.
“If a man was so eager to have her job” and the insanity of modern liberalism and its government institutions and minions would not stop him, he (any average man) could easily block the recruiting office door to a diminutive 5′-3″ Lesley Reed or any average woman. And he could do it with one hand still holding his rifle. “No one was going to block the door to the recruiting office” is right. NO ONE. It’s Lesley, bar the door now.
Buck O. adds:
Here’s a thought for Pan Dora. Let’s have all of the men and women who want to be Marines line up outside the recruiting office door, as best matched by size and paired off as male/female. At the command of the recruiting Sergeant, they fight to get into that door. Who ever gets in, gets to enlist.
