The Unique Role Men Play as Soldiers

Throughout history, men have been cast as the defenders of the societies in which they live. It’s a universal truth - every culture has its protectors, warriors, and soldiers, and they are men.

With the advent of postmodernism and critical gender theory, the gender binary has been flipped over its head, deconstructed, and reshaped to give women the same role as their male counterparts. No longer are women relegated to homemaking - “There’s not a single thing a man can do that a woman can’t do as well or better. Not a single thing,” President Joe Biden said at his 2021 address to mark Equal Pay Day.

That leaves men in a precarious position. No longer do men have a firm role in society - the roles they once played are now being expropriated by women who can supposedly do their job better than they can. It’s girl boss energy institutionalized by the military, which puts individuality above camaraderie.

According to statistics released by the US Army,nearly half of the women who take the Army Combat Fitness Test fail to qualify in contrast to a mere 7% of men. The result comes even with the relaxation of ACFT standards, which were lowered in 2019. Under the new testing scheme, women are allotted extra time to complete the same tests. Will the enemy provide extra time for women to run for cover before opening fire? Probably not.

Under theObama administration, military heads at the Pentagon devised a plan for a “gender-free” fighting force, with men and women serving in infantry units involved in direct ground combat.

The promise of a gender-neutral military culminated in the relaxation of the Army Combat Fitness Test, which has seen high drop-out rates among enlisted women in contrast to their male counterparts.

According to theCenter for Military Readiness, over a dozen major studies warned of serious problems before the social experiment even began. A three-year scientific research project conducted by the US Marine Corps in 2012 showedsignificant physical differences between male and female volunteers to the detriment to combat readiness. Worse still,injury rates for enlisted women in infantry training were two-to-six times higher than for men.

The experiment, which continues under the Biden administration, does not bode well for the military, which seeks to broaden its appeal to women through advertising. A series of ads produced by the US Army, aspreviously detailed on Lotuseaters.com, follows the stories of a variety of troops from different backgrounds explaining how each of them came to join the military.

One ad in particular, which features a female enlisted service member with two lesbian moms, appears to cater to the narcissism of contemporary clout-addicted zoomers who emphasize themselves above the people around them. They’re hardly military material - and not the kind of people you want fighting alongside you.

History will show that men will go out of their way to protect women on the battlefield. It’s in their nature. And the presence of women on the front lines makes their jobs that much more difficult. Case in point: during the Iraq war, a unit supply specialist from the 507th Maintenance Company named Jessica Lynch was ambushed and captured by Iraqi forces. As the military deployed Special Operations Forces set off to recover her, the entire case receivedconsiderable media coverage. 

In short, Lynch became the mission - not the military invasion of Iraq. It goes without saying that a soldier should never be the mission. Real-life isn’t supposed to be Saving Private Ryan, a movie that drew comparisons to the rescue of Army Pfc. Lynch.

Expect to see many more cases like the Jessica Lynch debacle to the point of oversaturation should America face a real enemy in war.

If so few women are physically capable of carrying out the duties expected of a soldier, then the front lines are not the place for them. This isn’t to say that women have no place in the military - far from it. Women can, and have been serving dutifully in support roles from logistics and engineering, intelligence and communications, administration, and in combat roles as helicopter pilots.

The Supreme Court agrees. Following a proposal by the Obama administration to remove barriers to enlistment, the army was set toregister women for the draft - a move that was shot down in June when the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the law that requires only men to sign up. The ACLUchallenged the law, claiming that it “imposes selective burdens on men, reinforces the notion that women are not full and equal citizens, and perpetuates stereotypes about men’s and women’s capabilities.”

The Center for Military Readiness, along with a group of retired military officers, urged the court to deny review, arguing that Congress, and not the court, should decide on the matter. They argued, as detailed by the New York Times, that its challengers “also fail to address the elephant in the room: Men, as a group, are stronger, bigger, faster and have greater endurance than women as a group.”

As an addendum to Ben Shapiro’s popular saying, facts don’t care about your feelings - and the enemy cares even less.

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