Reply #84: Ok my point was less clear there

[SharkSquid]

Miliary men do not except military women because there are some rotten apples that make it very hard to take them seriously (the pregnancy thing is just one example). The constant excuse making I have seen in my day for incompitent female officers is the freshest example in my mind. I have worked with about 65 female officers in my career, about 2/3 were compitent, about the same average as the overall officer population. But in the drive to "integrate" and "retain" almost all of them were just praised to high heaven for the smallest of tasks, the truly superior ones saw through it as BS but some ate it up with a spoon and created the type of mid-level senior officer you really hate and since she is female it makes it all the more obvious (like it or not). The current culture, in the officer commmunty at least, is that the bar for females is pretty damn low, and it is setting women in the military back futher than any asshole general or president ever could.