1. No matter how qualified, men are built as men, and women as women. If the same demanding physical standards for performance were applied across the board, women could not meet them. Conversely transgender men (pretending to be women) are beating them in sports constantly, and everyone is up in arms about this.
2. Females are subject to monthly periods, which affect them emotionally and physiologically. They are built to have babies, and be mothers. Not go out in battle. There is not a single society in human history that sent women out into the battlefield.
3. Men and women do not think in the same way about things in general. That's why someone wrote a book about men being from Mars, women from Venus. This is quite natural, and no one should be surprised. Men do not express their emotions as women, neither do they discuss matters in the same way as women. War is brutal, and women are not. (Not to mention the crude and coarse language of soldiers).
4. Men instinctively want to protect women from harm and danger, which means they could jeopardize a mission because of this instinct.
5. Most critically, when you put men and women in close proximity, the sexual tension rises dramatically and there is no avoiding it. That is a major distraction for soldiers in battle. And then you have all this nonsense about unwanted attention, and the bogus MeToo Movement.
6. Men are not willing or prepared to be led by women, and if you put a woman in charge of troops, there is bound to be resentment (which will spill over into performance under fire). Once again, this is how God has made men and women, and Feminists have tried to overthrow the natural order to emasculate men. And the military leadership in the Western world has already been emasculated to the point that they agreed to allow women into battle. The problem is that no one wants to honestly say what should be said, and the labels of *sexist* and *mysogynist* are used very effectively to deflect from the truth.
You are correct that the military routinely lowers the bar to allow women in. The standard they set for men as the "minimum" to be able to physically handle the duties of a soldier, all of a sudden are not required if you are a woman.
The movie G.I. Jane raised the question:
What if a woman could handle the same minimum physical requirements? If these standards were
truly equal across the board, the percentage of females in most of the Services would not be there. Like it or not, equal standards or not, women are given a promotional edge in the military. If you are a male and chose a man over a woman applying for a promotion or position, you are potentially destroying your career by the slightest perceived hint of sexism; the finger is therefore, routinely placed on the scale in the females' favor to avoid having your career ruined. The military will say that they do not have any such quota, but it is a reality. 20 Years ago I witnessed this hugely disproportionate promotion of of the most incompetent, mediocre performing women getting promoted over the most competent and worthy males. While men were at 80-90% of the people in the careers they worked in, it appeared that a strange phenomenon happened; a specific proportion of men, women and minorities were always promoted at the higher ranks. 10 got promoted, which meant 5 women, three minorities (preferably females), and only two men got promoted. Minority females rocketed to the top, many that were far from qualified besides race and sex. This is not to say that some of the women were qualified and worthy of promotion, but when you see some get promoted and they are lackluster performers before, there is no other explanation for why more qualified males did not get the promotion. Whether written or not, there is a quota.
The "attitude" or "sexism" that has been raised towards men's attitude towards female leadership does not commonly occur because of chauvinism, but the reality of knowing that they never should have been placed over you. It is rarely "
an ego problem." Some of this attitude is the anger of some servicemen who get crappy duty on the front lines, while women get the cushy accommodation in the rear of the combat areas. As long as they are there, your odds of
not being up front in undesirable and dangerous duties are diminished greatly. The Navy only allows women on ships that accommodate a reasonable amount of privacy in their close quarters. This means that men have to take up the slack while Navy women on average get those dream shore jobs, while men get sent out to sea at much greater frequency. So, it is not a mere matter of being equal by meeting physical requirements, but the inequity Females bring to the unfavorable realities of being a male in a so-called "gender neutral" military.
There really are more factors than just the physical capabilities. In combat areas where soldiers are paired up in lonely foxholes at night, lends itself to a security compromise. Now that the homosexuality issue has been politically forced upon the military, Commanders have to know who is dating or who is romantically involved to avoid such compromises. Commanders certainly have more important things to consider. When you are in the middle of the desert, there is no privacy, no tree to go behind to "do your business." You are before God and Country! You try to bathe at night in the open, but that is not always an option. For that reason, those field showers and toilets are in the rear where all the females are! Such distractions are a
negative combat multiplier. It makes no Army better or stronger.
But most of all, masculinity is a strong trait in most men in the military. If you are in a pitch battle and Joe gets shot in the leg and wounded next to Fred, Fred will likely continue to fight and tell Joe to shake it off until the battle is over. If a Mary gets shot in the leg next to Fred, his masculinity tends to want to rescue and care for Mary as she screams in pain. This magnifies the potential to take two people out of the battle if one gets wounded. I am all for women in the military dying for their Country equally as men; but no matter what the Government claims, men will always be less "equal" in the equation, and that will lead to discontent and affect performance. If you want "equal" and you do not want "chauvinism," then fight for all females to register for the Draft, and if it is enacted, demand that they cannot get out of it any more than a male can!
