This is a very sensible argument from Mike in comments from someone who has been there. That comment was posted on this post.

I’ve only scanned through the comments, but I didn’t see anyone with any actual experience here. Allow me to rectify that.

While the media was reporting that “Women are proving that they can perform equally” during Desert Storm, men were carrying women’s equipment, setting up their tents, changing their tires, and doing the jobs they were afraid to do, like driving trucks on dangerous Arabian roads. The women compensated them by providing a steady supply of sex.

Combat is still hard, physically and mentally, and no technology will ever change that. Combat support is pretty hard, too, and can turn into combat quite easily, as we saw with Jessica Lynch’s unit. Most women and some men don’t have what it takes. So, why not allow those very few women who might be able to handle it to do so? Many reasons, but here are some of the most important:

1. Combat unit cohesion is based on male group dynamics, and has been tried, tested, and refined over centuries. Put one woman in the unit and the whole dynamic disintegrates.

2. Sex.

3. Virtually no women, unless they’re on steroids or testosterone, have the physical strength and stamina required. Many men don’t, either. The exceptions among women are so few as to make them statistically insignificant.

4. Psychology has now shown what most of us knew all along: men and women are different mentally and emotionally. Women are simply not suited for combat, which, by the way, involves killing people. Our ancestors figured this out a long, long time ago. Remember the true story of Jessica Lynch? Her weapon jammed and she fainted. Want her in a foxhole with you?

4. Men might be raped or sexually abused if they are P.O.W.s, but it is rare. Women WILL BE. It’s not publicized because it would be damaging to the feminist cause, but it happened in Desert Storm and in the current war. And even with the few men who are, they aren’t coming back carrying an enemy soldier’s baby.

5. Feminists like to tell us that our natural male instinct to protect women is patronizing and wrong. Bull. It’s right and good, and most women wouldn’t want it any other way. Even if they did, it’s hard-wired and not going away, so we just have to accept that that’s the way it is.

The women-in-combat agenda is being pushed to further the feminist agenda of neutering society, and for the sake of career advancement for a few female officers who want to be able to attain the highest positions in the military, which are reserved for combat officers. But the armed forces do not exist to provide career opportunities for a few climbers, nor a captive-audience experimentation lab for social engineers. They exist to defend our country and our way of life, and anything that is detrimental to that mission needs to go away.