In the Bible there are some female military leaders, and G-d had no problem with that. My own daughter was commanding a platoon or whatever in the Shomron. But now we are hearing more and more protests about the presence of girls in the Army: girls as entertainers, girls as commanders and girls as subordinates. "Modesty" is becoming an issue. Rabbi Dov Lior for example told his disciplines to avoid army posts in command of female soldiers. In my time, kashrut was the main religious issue in the Army. We had no problems with girls, we never saw them, as the Army in my times was careful to avoid mixing girls with married reserve soldiers.
هل تعلمون أنّ ثمّة فتيات مقاتلات؟ أنّ ثمّة وحدات قتاليّة في جيش الدفاع الإسرائيليّ، يخدم فيها البنون والبنات معًا؟ تعرّفوا على كتيبة "كَرَكَل" ("القطّ البرّيّ المفترس") - الوحدة الوحيدة في سلاح المشاة التابع لجيش الدفاع الإسرائيليّ الّتي تشكّل فيها ا
That is from Tzahal's website, trying to make Arab girls volunteer to the Karakal unit, a female fighting unit. My big daughter served in it. They never saw a boy.
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I happen to have had more than a few encounters with Karakal, and at least in my time, they always had a minority of men in their unit (including Bedouin scouts for border patrol).
Beduins are professional soldiers and no boys. About the others you mention - yes.
Ah, the Jewish Taliban in action.
I don't know about female-only units, but women in mixed units are always terrible news from what I've seen. The politics of who is fucking whom, who wants to fuck whom, who is getting what in exchange for getting fucked, etc. make for a horrible environment to operate in. Women usually make very poor leaders due to their insecurity and lack of initiative and ability to exhude calm dominance. Finally, physically only the top percentile of women can operate to the same standard as the 50th percentile of men. Unit workload remains the same, which means that the men pick up the slack.
I do wonder how much fucking was going in around in Karakal.
One would assume that it was mitigated by the fact that these girls went home to their parents regularly. They have other, more socially acceptable avenues, to meet men. US troops overseas don't have that luxury.
Women usually make very poor leaders due to their insecurity and lack of initiative and ability
Joan of Arc did not have this problem.
Where there are men and women, there is fucking. Hierarchical power makes men very attractive to the women who are in a position to appreciate it.
As far as Joan of Arc or Deborah are concerned, you do understand the difference between "usually" and "on exceptional occasions," right? The difference between Joan of Arc and your average female soldier is about like the difference between you and William of Orange.
I dont know about Karakal but I have seen some peculiar figures in that unit. One American princess with a kippah (she was so dedicated that got soon promoted to Kurs Katzinim). There was another girl who looked butchy, but I may be badmouthing that poor soldier. My daughter was stationed in Eilat, on the Taba border, with dozens of Africans lazying around, bringing them cold colas.
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