>>>Completely missing the point.
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>>>Male person says "A woman has no place doing ABC or being in ABC because only a man can do it" = Male chauvinism... Male chauvinist. Put my comments in context with the offending comment. (which you will have to go back and look for as it was conveniently eliminated so it could be taken out of context).
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>You responded to Bill's assertion that women have no place in frontline combat units. My comments were directed squarely at this, though I agree "somebody" may have missed the point.
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>Please refer to my example of a biological male winning the female races, though he'd be an also-ran against other biological males. Can you not concede that there are physical differences between men and women? If so, then it's not "chauvinist" but "common sense" that women shouldn't be expected to compete with men physically, especially where strength can make a life or death difference to more than themselves.
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>Are there women strong enough to match your average male? Yes, there are women who could smash any of us. If they want to go into frontline combat, should it be allowed? On purely physical grounds, I'd say yes. Not so sure on the grounds of morale, since capture of one of these women by (for example) the sorts of people who video themselves beheading Americans with blunt knives, could sap the confidence and morale of whole armies. Perhaps you remember the spectacle of beaten airmen paraded by Saddam during the first invasion: how worse would it be were they women subjected to the barbaric humiliations traditionally meted out to vanquished women?
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>I don't know the answer to these questions, but I'm not the one issuing grand declarations. What I do know, is that frontline combat is NOT a lifestyle choice over which people have control. Plans/expectations rarely survive contact with the enemy.
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>Of course these days a lot of combat is undertaken by drone whose female operators often surpass their male colleagues, so perhaps the above is an obsolete consideration. If the frontline is reduced to an air conditioned office on safe territory, let the women at it I say- and I suspect Bill (whose point was about frontline combat) probably would agree too.

Of course they shouldn't be.
It's not even debatable.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-marines-combat-60-minutes-david-martin/
This has been under way for several years now.
Other experiments have fared even worse.
If men passed at that rate, there would be no Marine Corps.
It's absurd that serious combat trainers have to put up with this nonsense, but that's where we are now.

To suggest that someone with my background refuses to gives someone an opportunity to do what they want because of any reason other than likelihood of success is beyond absurd.