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| Girls! Guns! Generals! Articles! by Zsenipoo 01/05/2008, 12:25pm PST | ||||
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| True Confessions of an Ex-Chauvinist:
Fodder for Your Professional Reading on Women and the Military This is a delightful specimen of a written English all but extinct: the precise, blocky, pre-ironic language of the 40's and 50's. The dialect equivalent of Modernist architecture, its apparent ugliness and heaviness mask splendid utility. With exception of the odd concluding paragraph, this article is completely free of waffle words - sort of, kind of, pretty, a little, almost, a bit - which can be shocking in its own way. "Back in 1948, I had an aviation rating in the enlisted Navy—thoroughly bored and stationed at North Island Naval Air Station, observing manly naval aviators zoom overhead in their beautiful Corsairs and Bearcats. It appeared to me that I could escape into a world of adventure and manliness by applying for admission to the Naval Academy." "My Tentative Conclusions • Women can fight and have fought with competence and aggressiveness. • Women can handle scientific, technical, and mechanical work. • Women can fly and have flown high-performance aircraft. • Women can perform and have performed effectively at sea. • Women are at least the intellectual equals of men. • Women, on average, are not as strong in upper-body strength as men, and they have less physical endurance in the short term, though they enjoy a longer life expectancy. • Culture changes only slowly." |
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Girls! Guns! Generals! Articles! by 01/05/2008, 12:25pm PST  Re: Girls! Guns! Generals! Articles! by 01/05/2008, 5:30pm PST How progressive, an army of mostly women, blacks, hispanics, homosexuals, etc. NT by 01/05/2008, 8:43pm PST Is this better or worse than the alternative? NT by 01/06/2008, 6:48pm PST Meanwhile, back in reality... by 01/06/2008, 11:19am PST |
