THE FEMINIST SPECTATOR: Equality Equals Death
Neumayr, George
THE FEMINIST SPECTATOR GEORGE NEUMAYR Equality Equals Death IGHTLINE CALLED THE ORGIES AND TORTURE in the unisex units at Abu Ghraib "a twisted tribute to gender integration in the U.S....
...military...
...He thought it "questionable whether an 18-year-old tantalized by offers of tuition money has any inkling of what he or she is giving up in 'volunteering' to leave children yet to be born behind...
...Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness served as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces, which warned in- the early 1990s that placing women in combat would mean exposing them to rape and torture...
...Jessica Lynch, held up as an example of the glories of women in combat, was sodomized in captivity...
...Thanks to Bill Clinton's secretary of the Navy John Dalton, pregnant women serve too...
...We saw it," said Stephanie Thurston, who led an "all-woman crew in an armored Humvee in Iraq," reported the Buffalo News...
...THE FEMINIST SPECTATOR GEORGE NEUMAYR Equality Equals Death IGHTLINE CALLED THE ORGIES AND TORTURE in the unisex units at Abu Ghraib "a twisted tribute to gender integration in the U.S...
...Recruiters, eager to meet female quotas, presented to many of these women a picture of careerism without combat...
...She lost her left hand during an attack in Iraq, the Post reported, which came as a surprise to her old coach...
...The Post reported her "standing on tiptoe in the turret of a Humvee in a vain attempt, at 5 feet 4 inches tall, to see through the sight of her M 249 machine gun...
...woman soldier killed in the war...
...Feminists who condemn a culture of violence against women don't mind it in war...
...So did her properly conditioned colleagues...
...Since Broadwell, reported the Post, "wasn't quite tall enough to see through the weapon's sight, she was gauging the accuracy of her fire with tracer rounds...
...The Pentagon disregarded Heinz's comments, as it "worried about the abstract unfairness of granting single-parent soldiers the full set of career and educational benefits without the obligation of front-line service," the Boston Globe explained...
...She was on top of it," said Pfc...
...And then there was the happy story of "combat heroine" Teresa Broadwell in the Washington Post...
...A 33-year-old female Marine gave birth aboard the warship USS Boxer...
...The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette honored Pie stewa's death with an editorial calling for an end to all restrictions on women in combat: "THE BEST WAY TO HONOR THIS WARRIOR-MOTHER IS TO END AN OUTDATED COMBAT BAN...
...He regarded the deployment of single or soon-to-be mothers as barbaric, reported the Boston Globe...
...For all the misgivings stirred in us, mothers in risky professions are establishing new roles for women that we must finally accept and even embrace," Drexler wrote in the Christian Science Monitor in 2003...
...There was the report last year that babies are now being born on battleships...
...Mary Ann Krusa-Dossin, the first mother to receive a U.S...
...George Neumayr is managing editor of The American Spectator...
...Daughters and mothers in body bags¡ªin some cases, single mothers¡ªalso served the media as a window on the progress of women in combat...
...The first woman to die was Lori Piestewa, 23, a divorced single mother with a boy and girl in preschool...
...The policy reminded Heinz "of the story of Rumpelstiltskin, the dwarf in German folklore who exacts a terrible price for helping a desperate young woman¡ªher first-born child...
...The story put Elaine Donnelly in mind of a comment one soldier unhappy with the prospect of women in combat made to her commission: "This is not Olympic diving...
...Piestewa's orphans have the consolation of knowing that their mother died for an important experiment in equality and self-actualization...
...The problem is so out of hand that Congress in May was reduced to passing legislation asking the Defense Department to define for the first time "sexual assault...
...Where protecting women against rape is a feminist priority in peace, it is a point of pride not to pro tect them against it in time of war...
...Host Ted Koppel observed that "you have only to look at those leering thumbs-up photographs with naked Iraqi prisoners to know that a certain level of gender equality has, indeed, arrived...
...Feminists, she recalled, said that Americans could get used to violence against women...
...We are seeing women POWs, women with their legs blown off, women who are heroes," Lory Manning, director of the Women in the Military Project, told the Post...
...The same feminists who wanted men more sensitive in civil society assured the panel that male soldiers could be desensitized to violence against women in their units...
...The military has become a jobs program for single mothers, and the military not only extends but requires that they partake of the equal opportunity to die...
...Feminist folklore from Iraq is a grim tale, not only for orphans but also for families who greet their returning daughters as amputees...
...The Post gave her an A for effort in a gun battle it reported in November 2003 in which three Americans died and seven were wounded...
...Not that the policy of women in combat isn't producing some happy news...
...Feminists demanded that Bill Clinton's defense secretary Les Aspin, eliminate the phrase "substantial risk of capture" as a "factor in determining where servicewomen would be assigned," said Donnelly...
...Jonathan Rape...
...More single mothers will likely die in Iraq...
...It was just a shock to hear she had been GEORGE NEUMAYR injured because she had said that her job was going to keep her on the sidelines," Irish Coach Muffet McGraw said...
...After that, militaryprograms were instituted to teach male soldiers how to accept in stride females brutalized in captivity S OME AMERICAN MALE SOLDIERS, now officially not expected to behave chivalrously toward women, have absorbed the new ethos too well, as the steady stream of sexual assault charges from Iraq bears out...
...If she were two inches taller, it would have helped, but you couldn't expect anything more...
...From women wardens to sadomasochistic female jailors to single mothers sent to die on the front lines, the war in Iraq resembles a perverse myth Aristophanes wouldn't have been able to conjure up...
...We became intimate with death...
...general's star, counsels other mothers in Glamour magazine not to `shy away from trying to have both.' General Krusa-Dossin, the mother of a 22-year-old daughter, `wouldn't have it any other way.'" Drexler concluded from the deaths of mothers fighting in Iraq that "Only when we accept that the mothers can keep the home fires burning and fight oil fires in Iraq will we truly honor motherhood...
...The Washington Post reported in late May that "162 women have been wounded in Iraq, 99 of them too badly to return to duty...
...In a recent interview, Brig...
...It turns out that Teresa Heinz's late husband, John Heinz, was a rather stodgy fellow...
...Former Notre Dame basketball player Danielle Green was one of many who learned that the rhetoric didn't match reality...
...Peggy F. Drexler, a scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University, noted with pride that "it was a mother who was the first U.S...
...We do not get extra credit for adding an extra degree of difficulty...
...Women are not allowed to serve in some combat units in the military, such as the infantry and field artillery battalions...
...Broadwell had given up a modern-dance scholarship to the University of North Texas to work a machine gun in Iraq...
...By late May, 20 female soldiers had c¡ªed in Iraq...
Vol. 37 • July 2004 • No. 6
