"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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And let the discussions begin…

Nothing new, but then again this is a post from 2015. The summary of sci-fi characters is interesting.

Here potw.org/archive/potw96.html is an older argument as to why it may not be a good idea to have Females in the military.

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I have posted on nearly everyone of the 'Women in Combat' topics on the Jugoslav experience in WWII – the Partisan had the highest percentage of women as a part of their combat forces that anyone ever had – 25 percent. Larger than even the more integrated modern militaries. And they served extensively in frontline combat units.

And the blog totally skips them and in fact none of the former Jugoslav republics are listed in the section dealing with women in the modern military.

Of course as previously noted the Jugoslavs demobbed all but a few Heroes of the Revolution immediately after thee end of WWII and only brought women back into their military – support roles only – in the 70s when there was a significant fear of Soviet invasion.

And the reasons the Jugoslavs did all of that was exactly for all of the reasons given for not having women in combat – 25 percent pregnant at any given time, higher casualties than all male units, etc.

But then, what does real world experience have to do with this discussion?

Of course if the current US Navy experience of up to 25 percent of their female sailors returning from tours on shipboard pregnant (how much impact does that have on the Navy's budget?) can be glossed over…

At least this is posted in the right forum.

25 percent pregnant at any given time

up to 25 percent of their female sailors returning from tours on shipboard pregnant

Wait … you're telling me women can get pregnant ?

Who knew !?!?!?!?