Quote Originally Posted by azure View Post
Equal opportunities are thrust down our throats to the ridiculous extreme. Gays in the military - not a great idea - when you have 16 to a room, and have to strip down inches from a gay girl / boy - that's uncomfortable. Women in the military - sure but do not expect them to do all the same jobs as the men. One-armed vegetarians and single mothers with 15 kids... no way! Regardless how well they can carry six men through a field of burning straw.
I think you might be a little off line, as i have explained women are already on the front line in the UK. I also think you might be getting the wrong idea about Gays, just because a person is a gay, that does not mean he/she is going to jump on the first naked body they see sleeping next to them, that is a very outdated view. It does not matter if you are Gay, streight, or kinky, you will always be a soldier/whatever first, in the UK if a gay in the army crossed that line he would be out on his ass. The other thing about a gay in the UK forces is, he volenteered, and that means he is not going to jepoudise his carear for the sake of crossing that same line. Dont think for one minute that they are not there, because if they were there in the 60s-70s whan i was in the forces, you can bet your life they are still there now. If you feel threatened by the thought of being next to a gay while being naked, dont go swimming in the public baths, and dont go to leasure centres and use the shower fascilities afterwards. The thing about women on the front line, 70% of all operatives/spies/espianage that were dropped into France during WWtwo were women. You dont have to be a man to hold a rifle and walk 10 miles, you only need to be fit, one other thing it is a fact that a woman has a far higher pain tollerance. Dont put the gentler sex down, because they might not be as gentle as you think, but i will add in your defence, those type of women are a minority.

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