{"id":1591,"date":"2013-01-26T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2013-01-26T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T18:37:12","slug":"more-equal-rights-for-women-except","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"MORE EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN&#8212;EXCEPT . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equal rights for women &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; in the NFL? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; with no rule changes?<\/p>\n<p>Equal rights for women &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; in any male professional sport? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; with no rule changes?<\/p>\n<p>Equal rights for women &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; in the fiercest all-male competition imaginable? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; WAR?<\/p>\n<p>Equal rights for women &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; tired of limits for women? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; different rules for women?<\/p>\n<p>Equal rights for women &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; in hand-to-hand combat against men? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; with no rules?<\/p>\n<p>Equal rights for women &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; where the only rules are the facts? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; size, weight, strength, raw physical power?<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what women in front line combat means?<\/p>\n<p>It means we will have to change a bunch of rules and procedures in our military to accommodate them.\u00a0 Do you suppose our enemies will also endorse our change of rules and procedures to accommodate our women?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Get real.<\/p>\n<p>Our enemies will only have increased motivation to capture our women and rape them.\u00a0 Who is going to listen to any complaining about that?<\/p>\n<p>A man fighting in war is focused, motivated to fight and make it home alive because he is fighting for the women (mother, wife, daughters) he remembers back home, without distraction&#8212;especially distraction by women soldiers who can&#8217;t carry him to safety if he gets wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equal rights for women &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; in the NFL? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; with no rule changes? Equal rights for women &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; in any male professional sport? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; with no rule changes? Equal rights for women &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; in the fiercest all-male competition imaginable? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; WAR? Equal rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}