Talk:Women in the military

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I have made a basic structure. Please improve the article by making copy-edit and expand the counter-arguments in the Legitimacy section. --LobPo (talk) 17:16, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Translation: "please clean up my mess".--ZooGuard (talk) 17:38, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Deadly Consequences: How Cowards are Pushing Women into Combat

Could anyone buy this book to see the arguments made in it? --LobPo (talk) 17:32, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Or at least get it from the library? Bicycle^wheel 08:01, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

ISBN 978-1621571902 has a few library links...--ZooGuard (talk) 08:44, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

I'll check for it over in my local library if I get the chance, though I don't expect to find it. PacWalker 17:09, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Actually, they have their catalog online, and they do not have it; WorldCat puts the closest copy fifty miles away and on a military installation, so I'll not be of help here. PacWalker 17:13, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Side by side template

I don't understand why is was removed. It did dissect arguments verbatim. See also Men's_rights_movement#Various_claims. --LobPo (talk) 17:45, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

The fact that it's poorly used or misused elsewhere doesn't justify its use here. See The Annotated Citizen's Rule Book for an example of how it's intended to be used.--ZooGuard (talk) 17:49, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

But it looks good. --LobPo (talk) 02:55, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

The template itself, or what was said inside of it here?--Miekal 03:00, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

The template makes reading the arguments a lot easier. --LobPo (talk) 06:48, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

It really doesn't. Wëäŝëïöïď^{Methinks it is a Weasel} 06:53, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

for what it's worth, what a former Toronto Sun editor said

here
EPLF “fighters” comprised roughly 30% women. The Eritreans were adamant: Fewer women than the 30% level resulted in problems — jealousies, rivalries, excessive concern for their safety, awkward relations.

At 30% life became normal. At the time some women were platoon and company commanders with acceptance by men. In such a small country fighting a Goliath, there was no choice but to recruit women, despite the apparent cultural heresy of such mixing of sexes.

In 1988, Canada and other countries were debating the wisdom of women in military combat roles. In our army today, roughly 15% are women, with maybe 2% in combat roles.

In those days — and in 1998 when I returned when Ethiopia attacked and seized unimportant land while suffering huge casualties — I felt Eritrea was a role model for Africa.
Peter Worthington (Korean War vet)
Talk to Civic Cat 18:42, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Appeal to tradition

What about the Amazons? Anna Livia (talk) 16:40, 30 January 2019 (UTC)