Santorum lived up to his Google Santorum name today. IT is clear he does not understand women

[demtenjeep]

did you know women shouldn't fight in combat because at times they might be ruled by their emotions instead of the mission?

WTF

[surrealAmerican]

1. That's certainly true.

Of coarse, it's just as true of men. I guess no humans ought to serve in combat. I'm okay with that. Thank you, frothy mix.

[demtenjeep]

2. he's trying to walk it back hehe

Rick Santorum raised some eyebrows by saying women should not be in combat because of the "the types of emotions involved." Now, Santorum says, he is also concerned about "physical strength and capability" of women in combat situations.

First, on those "emotions," Santorum says he was not talking about the emotions of women.

"I was talking about men's emotional issues; not women," Santorum told ABC News. "I mean, there's a lot of issues. That's just one of them."

http://gma.yahoo.com/rick-santorum-meant-mens-emotional-issues-154221352--abc-news.html

[pinboy3niner]

7. Summed up well by Eli Clifton at thinkprogress:

In the past 24 hours, Santorum: accused Obama of helping Iran acquire nuclear weapons; suggested that male soldiers are incapable of controlling their emotions around female comrades in combat; and said women are better suited to “flying small planes.”

Posted in GD by ProSense:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002296150

[quakerboy]

9. If you read the original statement

That is clearly what he was trying to say the first time around. Not that women are too emotional.

Be fair to the man, there's nothing to loose by doing so.

You don't have to distort his stated views for them to be horrible. He was pretty clear in saying that women are weak, and men would be distracted from the military mission by having to take care of them. And consistent in doing so.

[JDPriestly]

13. I believe he was specifically discussing women as medics and

in communications when he said that.

I don't think he is going to be elected under any circumstances.

[Ohio Joe]

3. Understanding has nothing to do with it...

He wants them to be completely controled by men.

[demtenjeep]

4. true

he is disgusting

[WhoIsNumberNone]

5. I saw a Facebook posting attribting this to his Twitter account:

"Three more primary wins! I won't rest until the entire electoral map is covered in Santorum."

I say 'attributed' because I just looked up his Twitter account, and this tweet isn't there. Funny nonetheless...

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. Women Are More Vicious Soldiers

Right after I returned from Vietnam I was St. Clair, Missouri where my parents lived. I was sitting in a little cafe about a block from the house they rented. It was 1968. I began a conversation with a WWII vet who was a sniper in that war. We were talking military shop talk since I had just gotten back from RVN.

He began telling me about his experiences. He had had some contact with women soldiers. As I remember they may have been Israelis. He told me that the worse thing that could ever happen is to get captured by female combat soldiers. He said they would do to prisoners particularly men things that no other human being could imagine. He said they were particularly vicious fighters when properly arm armed and trained. What he told me made it clear why you do not really "tick" off a women. Even Shakespeare talked about "a woman scorned".

He implied they had no trouble doing things to a certain part of a man's body if you really made them angry. Remember that gal who?

[demtenjeep]

8. we have training to stop fights in schools. Police say girl fights are much more violent

They advised us to never get inbetween two girls fighting

[The Genealogist]

14. Anecdotal evidence, but...

the worst fight I remember from school (k-12, that is) was between two girls. I think it was 11th or 12th graders. There was one big chunk of hair, I remember that quite plainly. The other kids were talking about that skirmish for some time there after.

[HockeyMom]

10. Oh, that is a very old male religious argument

It was used decades ago as to why women shouldn't even work. Oh, that old PMS "insanity" claims.

[provis99]

11. men are never ruled by their emotions, eh?

[pinboy3niner]

12. And when we want expert opinion on people in combat, Santorum is our 'go to' guy

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. I guess he never heard of Maria Bochkareva and the 1st Russian Women's Batallion Of Death

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wdeath.htm

They were organized in World War I of mainly war widows and fought in the trenches against the German army on the Eastern front, sometimes shaming male units through their superior courage. They were assigned to defend the Winter Palace during the revolution.





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