No place for women: The Skype affair and women on the frontline

Because the performance of Australian women standing besides men in forward positions in actual hostilities is an unknown, the taxpayer is paying for an experiment.

Picture an Australian female soldier in Afghanistan. A body jumps up in front of her. She squeezes her rifle’s trigger and the body drops to the ground. In the rush of the moment there is no time to think - but there is a lifetime to think about that moment. The advocates of gender equality, focused only on the barrow they are pushing and what this will do to their own image of being fair-minded, are advocating for the right of a woman to be haunted for life. No woman needs that right. If war is the ultimate in insanity, then why would any women demand a right to participate?

Some males interviewed in our own armed forces claim that they enjoy having females around them. That raises another potential problem. This is chivalry. At his cost, a male soldier on our side may be dangerously distracted from the task immediately at hand by a more-than-usual concern for the safety of the female soldier next to him.

So, why are we wasting time, energy and money creating a major issue when once there was almost none? The reason is that when living in comfort and safety, and with plenty of money to throw about, a society assumes that it is now entitled to have the luxury of political correctness to wallow in.

Where would we be if women were not the loving and nurturing creatures that nature has designed them to be? What if they had the aggression of males? The answer is that we would not be here to ask the question. The human species would have destroyed itself millennia ago.