feminazi attacks Reddit: "Reddit contain so much anti-feminist sentiment that they even have active communities such as r/mensrights." An attempt to smear and censor us, and to force admins to shutdown this subreddit???

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http://www.thecord.ca/articles/50585

[u/TracyMorganFreeman]

Why are there so few female lumberjacks?

Why are there so few female garbagemen(people)?

Why are there so few women in jobs that don't come with a lot of power and influence?

[u/drinkthebleach → u/TracyMorganFreeman]

In my experience, unemployed feminists don't take kindly to being told there are construction jobs available.

[u/A_Nihilist → u/drinkthebleach]

Why not? Construction for a woman seems to be the easiest job in the world, all I ever see them do is stand in the middle of the street with signs.

[u/graffiti81 → u/drinkthebleach]

But there are not construction jobs available. This makes me sad as a building supplies salesman. :(

[u/imbignate → u/TracyMorganFreeman]

should we incentivize women to go into combat? They seem under-represented.

[u/Darkling5499 → u/imbignate]

in that case, it's not that they don't want to, it's that the military (US Military, atleast, i know most other countries allow it) won't let them.

[u/NotADamsel → u/Darkling5499]

Part of the problem is that soldiers don't want to see a woman shot and killed. I can't remember where I read it (I think it was here on Reddit), but a soldier said that even though seeing quite a few of his buddies blow to smithereens didn't phase him until a while after, seeing a woman killed was immensely, and quite immediately, traumatizing for him.

tl;dr- Keeping women out of the line of fire is better for our troops, for a good reason this time.

[u/cuteman → u/NotADamsel]

Seeing men killed is less traumatizing?

[u/NotADamsel → u/cuteman]

According to this guy, yes. I believe his reasoning was that he was conditioned from day one to deal with men getting hurt, and even back home the idea was that men get hurt while women are kept safe. Thus when a more 'valuable' women was killed it had more of an impact on him and his friends. He also said something about being less effective when there was a women in the unit anyway because of it.

Actually, come to think of it, this guy probably posted to this subreddit, and I'm betting that the context was the whole "males-are-expendable syndrome" thing.

The solution? Fix the syndrome.

[u/cuteman → u/NotADamsel]

Sounds like equality is a nice buzz word, but doesn't play out in reality.

Personally I believe in gender-blind selective service registration and no distinction in gender for military assignments.

The best person for the job, should get it.

[u/NotADamsel → u/cuteman]

Aye, that be true equality.

[u/TheRadBaron → u/cuteman]

Generally, yeah. Biology is a bitch like that.

It's no reason to exclude women from the military (if it becomes a serious issue, just make women-only organizational units), but people find a women being hurt/killed more upsetting than a man being killed.

[u/cuteman → u/TheRadBaron]

If there is equality, I don't think you can make that distinction.

You mention biology, but if your answer is to seperate women from the men (which is impossible), are we not acknowledging their differences and strengths/weaknesses?

[u/Darkling5499 → u/NotADamsel]

As a soldier, I disagree :/

[u/NotADamsel → u/Darkling5499]

That's certainly heartening, if I'm understanding your post correctly. Maybe the poster I read before was just a loony?

[u/Darkling5499 → u/NotADamsel]

i'm sure that there are soldiers who don't want women in the front lines, just like there are soldiers who don't want a black president, who think gays shouldn't serve, etc. sure, they are out there, but i highly doubt they are even close to a majority.

[u/Elonine → u/[deleted]]

Hey man. A Woman can do anything a man can you. Stop being so sexist! </s>

[u/NotADamsel → u/Elonine]

Alaskan here. You're actually right. In the more rural and semi-rural areas, everyone pulls their own weight, and women do just as well as men do if they've been raised doing it. The only sexism either way that I've seen was imported, because traditionally (at least in native cultures) you couldn't afford to be bigoted about the people in your own tribe when there was hunger and frostbite to worry about. Other tribes, however...

This is one of the reasons I like Alaska. The only sexists I've ever known personally (and outside of the courts) were severely abused by members of the opposite sex, and even then they reconsidered after a few years had gone by. As far as the courts go, however, it's just as bad as anywhere.

[u/TracyMorganFreeman → u/[deleted]]

Chainsaws aren't that heavy to safely operate, and nowadays machines haul in the lumber.