Women Vs The Front Line! Fight!

[dv8nation]

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-sources-panetta-opens-combat-roles-women-203034238--politics.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat,

Comments

[yes_justice]

Well, if we're going to go around slaughtering each other and blowing shit up, may as well make women do it too. Cause, ya know after two wars and occupations, we need the bodies folks.

Lysistrata aside, no reason women should be above men in that way.

Kids next?

[telemann]

Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace - a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society

Oh my

[yes_justice]

It will be mostly poor women who have no options but to join the military as we have an economic draft. We will have to see more black women on those silent ABC news Sunday night rosters.

At least it will look more like America, I guess.

[dv8nation]

You're trying to draw in other issues and being inflametory. Knock it off.

[yes_justice]

May I ponder the fact that poor women will be disproportionately impacted?

Please explain why this issue is not relevant. I don't see you scolding anyone for bring up rape. Why not poverty?

[dv8nation]

We're talking media reactions to a change in the military. That is the topic. Not poverty.

[yes_justice]

Oh. As you like then. I'll wait until its a media issue in a few years and then make an OP about it.

Sorry to sully your fine work. Good bye.

[dv8nation]

Because that's not the topic. Nor is it a comment on the original post.

[yes_justice]

The original post, entitled, "Women Vs The Front Line! Fight!"

Sure.

[notmrgarrison]

I quite honestly think you're bringing up a good point. Except maybe the last sentence.

[yes_justice]

Another time.

[terminator44]

I love that play. Aristophanes was one of the first political satirists, and in my mind, one of the best.

[telemann]

Yeah, I keep hoping a buried Roman or Greek or Egyptian library will turn up with all his lost plays, but it seems so unlikely :/

[dv8nation]

You edited because you don't think people here wouldn't know Lyistrata? So little faith...

[yes_justice]

LOL.

I await the code pink drag interpretations of the play commenting on this issue.