War Against Human Nature: 100% Failure

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Instead of training to fight America’s enemies, the United States Army has been ordered to engage in a war against human nature:

All eight female soldiers who survived the initial days of the first-ever Army Ranger School course to include women failed to make it to the second phase, but can still try again and pass, Army officials said Friday.
The women were attempting the famously difficult 62-day course as the Pentagon weighs which combat jobs women will be allowed to hold in the future. Army officials at Fort Benning, Ga., said that 115 men in the class had moved on to Ranger School’s second phase — mountaineering at Camp Merrill, Ga. — but that eight women and 101 men will be left behind at Fort Benning, Ga., to attempt Phase One again.
Top Pentagon leaders dropped a longtime ban on women in combat units in January 2013, but gave the services until later this year to seek exceptions and provide justification. . . .
About 35 male soldiers who attempted Phase One with the women failed to meet standards that would allow them to repeat, and will be sent back to their units, Army officials said. . . .
The Ranger class began April 20 with 19 women and 380 men. They where whittled down to eight women and 184 men after the initial, grueling four-day Ranger Assessment Phase, known as “RAP Week.”

Doing the math here: Of the 380 men who entered, 48% completed RAP Week. Of the 19 women who entered, 42% finished RAP Week. Of those who survived RAP Week, 63% of males advanced to Phase Two, whereas the failure rate of females was 100%

To repeat: ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FAILURE.

Believe it or not, that statistic is actually inadequate to describe how badly this social engineering experiment failed. It’s worse than 100% failure, as will be explained, but first permit me to quote the introduction to Sex Trouble:

Feminists have . . . undermined customs of courtesy and decency, fostering a climate where there are no commonly recognized rules to prevent or mediate conflicts between men and women. The destruction of civilized restraints has unleashed savage impulses, so that sexual relations at times approach the “war of all against all” of which Thomas Hobbes once warned.

The natural (and biologically necessary) relation between men and women is one of voluntary cooperation — as husband and wife, mother and father — to provide for themselves and their offspring. However, feminists reject this natural cooperation, condemning it as a system of male supremacy that oppresses women; feminists instead insist on viewing men and women as collective groups with antagonistic interests, engaged in hostile competition. In this zero-sum game mentality, human beings are not viewed as individuals but as members of collective groups. Any observable inequality between groups is automatically assumed to be a result of social injustice. Ergo, the all-male status of elite combat outfits is evidence of sexist discrimination.

Army Rangers are the patriarchy, and the patriarchy must be smashed!

How could the failure rate of females in Ranger School be worse than 100%? Because these 19 women were handpicked as human guinea pigs in this experiment, and some were given special preparation, as an anonymous Army lieutenant explained in an online military forum:

I’m gathering that you are trying to make a point against the people who disagree with GI [gender integration] and ranger school. So, here’s my personal response.
I honestly know that some (not all) of the females who are going through right now were treated favorably in order to be better prepared for Ranger School. And “favorably” is a very conservative way of putting it. For example: multiple opportunities to pass RTAC; training in-between RTAC cycles to get better prepared to complete RTAC; training by an RI (not from RTB or RTAC) to get better prepared for Ranger School; PT plans focused on RAP week events and weapons training. All of this took place on the the governments dime at Ft. Banning and they did not have duty obligations back at their units. I’m sure all Ranger students would love to be put on active duty orders (if guard or reserve) or separated from their daily duties to strictly prepare for Ranger school. At the end of the day, they needed this preparation in order to have a good shot at passing rap week in ranger school.
Saying that… if they went straight to Ranger School (like the vast majority Ranger Students do) and did not get trained in preparation to go, how would they [fare]? I personally know that the several needed time to recover and get the extra training to potential pass RTAC. Not all, but several. (it was a significant number when your talking about 19 total)
I have seen the [gender integration] from the very beginning until now. My personal opinion, based on what I have seen first hand, is that all females ‘collectively’ will not be able to walk on to Ranger school and be successful. They need extensive training, physically and tactically (at the one on one level) in order to have a slim chance of being successful. And by training I mean separation from duty to do nothing but train and improve physical fitness. My reasoning behind this: the females who came to attempt ranger school are the most elite, physically fit, and top .17% of all females in the Army (130 out of 74000). So if they need all of this training, how will the other 99.83% of females [fare]?
If the 16 make it, how does that reflect all females? Over 130 (approximately) attempted, and 16 are left (12%). .02% of ALL females that were allowed to attempt still have chance. If these were males, this would be deemed an epic failure. Do the math on the money the government spent on this, and tell me this is worth the tax payers dime. It’s [borderline] criminal. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, literally, from the pay, tdy, salary of the personal instructor, time away from their unit (other people doing double duty), salaries for O/As for several months, and the actual cost of sending a soldier to ranger school.

Everything about this experiment is wrong — an insult to common sense — because it is inspired by radical feminist gender theory.

Understand this: Because of budget cuts — thanks, President Obama! — the Army is currently planning to eliminate 10 brigades.

I repeat: TEN BRIGADES are being eliminated from the Army and yet, somehow, the Pentagon manages to find enough money in its budget to provide special training for female soldiers for use in this bizarre “gender integration” experiment at Fort Benning.

Even if you are not disturbed (as you should be) by the weirdness of this Island of Doctor Moreau project, even if the idea of trying to turn women into androgynous Death Machines doesn’t give you nightmares, what about the costs in terms of dollars and human resources to conduct this experiment at taxpayer expense? Only a government under the control of fanatical ideologues would attempt to do this unnatural and unholy thing in the name of “gender integration,” and yet no member of Obama’s Army can be permitted to criticize it.

“Feminism is fundamentally inhumane. It is a totalitarian belief system, intolerant of dissent. It is a rationalization of hate, and therefore feminism can justify telling any lie, so long as men are hurt (and feminists are empowered) by the lie. . . .
“All that is necessary, in feminist rhetoric and belief, is to blame men for everything bad. . . .
“To be a feminist in good standing, therefore, requires a woman to ignore the basic errors of her fellow feminists, to cooperate in feminism’s totalitarian project of silencing critics who call attention to that which feminism must ignore.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War on Human Nature, pp. 81, 84

So it is that the U.S. Army, which is supposed to protect American freedom, is being used to destroy American freedom.

(Special hat-tip: Paul Hair on Twitter.)





 

148 comments

  1. It’s bad enough that we expose men to combat, it is a crime against humanity to intentionally expose women to it. However, it is the duty of a man to stand between his beloved home and war’s desolation.

  2. Well, one requires neither physical strength nor major not-freaking-out about said feat, and the other is a pretty simple mechanical task.

    So, I understand yours. Perfectly, actually, since I run, poorly, but with determination, and could not dream of jumping out of an airplane with more than half my body-weight and have any prayer of doing anything except lying there going, “Oh, shoot me now!”

    But I still don’t get what’s so hard about fitted sheets! If I can do it, surely anyone can?

  7. Women don’t belong in the military, nor in the fire department, nor in the police department (*).

    (*) auxiliary support positions, such as Jeanette Victoria mentioned above, with respect to all three, may be a different matter.

  8. There are those who can accept facts and make decisions based on them. There are others who will only be moved by emotional arguments.

  9. You have no problem with:

    *The massive waste of money to pre-train these women, the cream of the Army crop, physically?
    *That they were relieved of their normal duties to focus on prepping (that no male gets, thus not, in fact, holding them to the same standard), forcing *someone else* in their unit to take up their slack?
    *That males that have a much better chance of passing were *denied* slots to accommodate them?
    *Conducting social experiments on the taxpayers dime when it’s the Army’s primary job is to win wars?

    Unreal.

  10. the most obvious point to all of this is societies used to understand that the womb was women’s contribution to their tribe, society, country — risking wombs is not how a society survives — one man can impregnate how many women but women can realistically how many children

  11. This is right in line with the contortions US Special Operations Command is going through to ram females into frontline SOF units. Remember what General Dempsey said: If the standards are high, you need to justify why they’re high. Yeesh, the idiocy of that statement should be disqualifying enough, but that is the mentality that has been forced on the military.

  12. Agreed. Of course, I also don’t care whether he/she/it transitioned at all. I’m not going to participate in his little head game.

    It’s similar to this: My given name is Susan, but my family has called me DeeDee for 50 years since one of my younger brothers mispronounced my name as a toddler. I hate it. Nobody cares. At this point I’m just hoping to outlive them all so that none of them can put it on my gravestone.

    So if some dude wants to be called Wanda and identified as “she”, that’s nice if you can talk idiots into doing it, but I ain’t one of those idiots. It’s exactly like some psychopath wanting to be called Napoleon, and no normal person would play along with that.

  13. Yes, their God-given role. Which is why I’m more than happy to submit to my husband. Even including labor pain, I still got the better end of the deal.

  14. While no doubt conditions are better now in my time as a combat infantryman I saw feet traumatically amputated by “Bouncing Betties”, utter squalor in firebases including open slit trench latrines full of the product of dysentery, guys bleed out from severed arteries, no bathing this side of bomb craters, fatigues rotting off in tropic heat, mind numbing weary trudges through rice paddies full of feces, leeches crawling up orifices among other horrors. Come on down, sister.

  15. As I recall, that would be… starkers, yes?

    Might be uncomfortable for winter olympics, but hey, Beach Volleyball in the summer!

  17. Every now and then there is a debate on who is more “anti-science”, the Left or the Right…liberals are highly resistant to accepting any differences across groups because of their adherence to social constructionism…To give a concrete example of how far this goes, there are many liberal Left people who won’t even accede to the proposition that men are, on average, stronger in terms of upper body strength than women…on Twitter recently I saw an article which quantifies the difference in concrete ways. To be honest the difference shocked me…

    http://www.unz.com/gnxp/men-are-stronger-than-women-on-average/

  19. It’s folding them nice and flat and square, with military precision, so everything lines up evenly in the linen closet. Ahhh…perfectly organized linen closet…it’s like heaven on earth! 😀

  22. In every case women have graduated as a result of lowered standards so they could be allowed to graduate. In “Revlon’s” case it cost her life. In every case the military has lowered the standards for women. Anyone questioning the wisdom of such idiocy has found their career abruptly truncated.

  23. Were I Dempsey, I wouldn’t be able to hold me head up in polite company. Alas, stupidity has not been of recent invention. Read John Toland’s “Infamy” sometime. Pay particular attention to George Marshall’s behavior in the lack of warning to General Short. This sort of trash has cost many lives among the “helots” of he military, and will cost heavily in the future.

  24. People keep voting for progressives in both parties. Whether a ‘D’ or the magik ‘R’ matters not a whit.

  26. Leftards accept science only when it is convenient. When it isn’t, not so much. “Science” is settled only when they say it is, regardless of the facts of the matter.

  27. I recently saw Bill Paxton on “Who Do You Think You Are?” tracing his ancestors. He found a guy in his family past who had done great things… but was a slave owner. OH, MY GOD! The hand-winging and teeth-gritting that ensued!

    Hey, think about this, Paxton: Do you think HE would be proud of YOU? Do you think he’d like what happened to America?

  28. Actually, I don’t mind fitted sheets. But keep me away from the potato salad. Unless you need someone to eat it. I’m pretty good at that.

  31. The ticket sales for Women’s Beach Volleyball would sell out quickly and if it were on TV, men would nuke the network studios.

    The “nuke the network studios” part sounds like a good idea all by itself, come to think of it.

  32. This attempt to make the sexes fungible isn’t just about lowering standards, it is also about ignoring taking the best advantage of the sexes differences.

    Ok, a woman may not be able to stand up to the same rigorous Ranger standards, but put women in positions where sheer physical strength isn’t a priority and you’ll find some talent that would be wrong to ignore.

    Women as marksmen, women as pilots are two prime examples I can think of.

  34. My wife’s been trying to show me fitted sheet folding for years.
    Nowadays she just tells me to leave it for her.

  35. Hahahahaha! I’m kind of like Eddie Haskell on Leave It To Beaver. “My, you look nice today, Mrs. Cleaver.”

    (Can’t have a show with that name these days. A boy called “the Beaver” would be raised as a little trannie in today’s society.)

  36. BWAHAHAHA! When I was a kid, and my Mom would give us dome M&Ms…I swear this is true…I would peel them, sort the candy shells by color, eat them alphabetically, then eat the chocolate last. To make them last longer.

    If I hadn’t been an obedient, straight-A kid (with a clean room), my parents might’ve had me committed.

  37. I read that article and started issuing mild oaths under my breath.
    My wife who has no interest this kind of stuff ans wonders whyI do said “What is it?”
    I had to explain it a couple of times how this gender self-identification things supposedly works.
    By the time I got done I had to leave the room and step outside for a cigarette….seething.
    We are so doomed.

  40. Pilots still need physical strength, due to heavy g-forces. That is, in fighter jets anyway. Cargo planes, not so much.

    I find women better organized. I’ve always preferred to work for women bosses. Any job with a clipboard and a time schedule, I’d put a woman there.

  41. Yeah, I myself about had a meltdown. Usually I’m really careful about following McCain’s links, most of which make me go tapioca, but I naively followed JV’s link, so now I need to beat her for upsetting me, LOL.

  43. It’s simple: allow the women to apply, and some (very few) will make it, and some won’t. No special provisions, no reduced standards, just apply and attempt he course. If some women pass, they pass, and if they don’t, they don’t.

  44. It was something I noticed in high school. As a runner (cross country and track) there was a 7th grade girl who pretty much started at the top of the varsity girl ranks (North Dakota class B) and it wasn’t even close. Varsity girls ran 4Ks and occasionally they’d have the JV Boys 4K and Varsity girls at the same time to save time. What I noticed that how far behind the girl I mentioned was in relation to the boys she was running with. If you took it as a whole race she’d probably have been lower top 20 so while not bad for a girl who was decimating her competition by almost a minute she was left behind by boys who were only JV level.

    There are many talented women athletes out there but no amount of denying reality will change that the average man’s strength is stronger than the average woman’s by a pretty fair margin.

  45. When my son was in high school, the girl’s basketball team at his school competed for a national championship. They lost to the boy’s J.V. team at their school. Different strengths, body types, etc.

  46. Speaking of basketball when I was in 7th grade we were playing co-ed in gym class and me and a girl went for a loose ball, collided at the shoulders. Her collarbone broke and I was left with a guilty conscience. Mind you at this time I was small, lightweight adolescent and the girl couldn’t have weighed much less than me. Another example of the physical differences between the genders.

  47. Sexes! Quit misusing a grammatical term. Conservatives need to quit allowing the left to pollute the language.

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