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"Technologically, humans might well reach a place where men and women are as interchangeable in combat as they are in office work but we’re not there yet."
It doesn't bother me as I am out of step and now even one might say middle-aged, so I have no stake in what present societies have already decided about gender roles. I would care even less for anything more symbolically representative about these.
The point is, since I am one imbued with ONE of the most fundamental elements of fighting capacity (I don't assert that I have all of the elements or that I am superlative in the military mindset), I do get to use it, informally and whenever I like. I also seek avenues to express it more fully.
The issue of recognition does become more trivial: as time presses on the stakes are somewhat different.
I don't really care if a society relegates me to a definitively feminine role, which is what it has tried to do for the first part of my life. But I do take pleasure in making it pay.
It's not for any reason, really, just that I have a military instinct, and I like to bring it out to play. :)
"Technologically, humans might well reach a place where men and women are as interchangeable in combat as they are in office work but we’re not there yet."
It doesn't bother me as I am out of step and now even one might say middle-aged, so I have no stake in what present societies have already decided about gender roles. I would care even less for anything more symbolically representative about these.
The point is, since I am one imbued with ONE of the most fundamental elements of fighting capacity (I don't assert that I have all of the elements or that I am superlative in the military mindset), I do get to use it, informally and whenever I like. I also seek avenues to express it more fully.
The issue of recognition does become more trivial: as time presses on the stakes are somewhat different.
I don't really care if a society relegates me to a definitively feminine role, which is what it has tried to do for the first part of my life. But I do take pleasure in making it pay.
It's not for any reason, really, just that I have a military instinct, and I like to bring it out to play. :)
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