"About Female Soldiers" Topic

"When you enter the science fiction section of bookstores or surf online book seller websites, it is easy to spot one of the strongest symbols of military science fiction: the full integration of women into the military, including combat roles. Women infantry donned in futuristic armor using futuristic weaponry is a staple of sci-fi and is found across all media. Some creators of these sci-fi proprieties sexualize the female soldier to garner more sales for their product. Others, like myself, present a more realistic idea of female soldiers in future military service. Until recently, women were mostly banned from the combat-center jobs in the military, and this used to be called the "Brass Ceiling". However, the present is catching up the future, with more military organizations are lifting the ban between female soldiers and the combat roles. This even includes the infantry and special forces. With the altering of the modern battlefield and the burred frontlines, more women have seen combat in the 21st century, and this altering reality of modern warfare shifted the point of view on females in combat. While this blogpost has been in the draft since the founding of FWS in summer of 2010, I've waited to craft the right balance and depth needed to explore this trope of science fiction. Paired with the normal discussion of sci-fi's take on female soldiers, I've also included extensive information on modern female soldiers as well. Be warned readers, this is not an easy or funny blogpost, and some of the topics we're going to be discussing are difficult and painfully. It is my intention to education with this blogpost about the various issues facing modern female soldiers and how science fiction deals with the same topic. On a personal note, this blogpost has also been on the blog draft pile for some time, due to the difficult topics associated with female soldiers in modern military service. Also, this blogpost was a challenge to write due to the steer volume of information and the sci-fi examples I drew upon. Those examples took more than three weeks of research and writing, the full blogpost was more two months of work. It is my hope that with this blogpost that the world of female soldiers has been done justice…"
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The old women are too weak piffle again.

So there are a lot of women in combat in SF (and fantasy). Which is the genre the author writes.

Per the previous thread on women in combat, he is living in a fantasy himself.

I was particularly amused by two things – his insistence that 'sexual assault stop now' and the fantasy that war crimes and prisoner abuse will lessen with women in combat roles.

The first statement is on a par with the 'hashtag' campaign to get Boko Haram to release the kidnapped Nigerian school girls. Which makes his genre fantasy rather than SF.

Read Kipling and historians to see how women from various cultures throughout history have treated captured enemies. In cultures where infanticide was practiced it was generally the females that controlled the situation. If a female can kill her own child, why would she be more merciful to an enemy?

I have often stated that Chivalry was invented in the Middle Ages in an attempt to create a 'kinder, gentler' female.

P.S. In the recent White House break in the intruder (Iraq war vet) overpowered the Secret Service agent at the front door. The agent was a woman.

Wow… the spelling and grammar in that article was bad enough to make me stop reading it.

> P.S. In the recent White House break in the intruder (Iraq war vet) overpowered the Secret Service agent at the front door. The agent was a woman.

And how many instances of a male guard/cop being overpowered would someone have to quote before you would agree that it means nothing?

I'm all for female soldiers. Oh to be an ice cream sandwich!

Have not we beat this horse to death at least 2 or 3 times on TMP already ?

Well Dynaman8789, perhaps a study could be made. Pick a random dozen each of male and female Secret Service field agents and recreate the situation.

If you get similar numbers on men and women being overpowered, then I'll concede the point.

Although for optimum security it might be better to look at those cases where agents were overpowered and look at the physical and combat skill requirements to see whether they need to be revised for all agents.

Putting equal opportunity above rational job criteria when it can have fatal consequences is insane.