Arguments For or Against Women in Combat

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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