we see relatively few women in bar
fights, few mothers punching each other out during Little League games, and
few women either participating in or watching violent sporting events like
However, the assertion that women tend to be less aggressive than men
is a fundamentally different argument that saying that women's lack of
aggression makes them unqualified for combat. While women as a whole do
tend to be less aggressive than men, I have certainly known individual
women who seem to be easily as aggressive as any man that I have ever
known. As such, to describe women solely as maternal and nurturing, to the
exclusion of any potential for aggression, seems to be simply erroneous.
It is simply incorrect to assume that women do not have the capacity for
Another important argument against women in combat is that women
should be excluded from combat since there is a significant possibility
that women will be captured and raped during combat. Notes, "Experts in
the field have noted that female captives, unlike their male counterparts,
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