Women are asked to fight and die for their country...

[Playinghardball]

[seabeyond]

1. just the total disconnect from the last post of yours.... lol

maybe the women are merely in the army to be....

fucked.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1588323

[Xedniw]

4. I saw that link in your post, seabeyond

And I alerted on it. I agree with you about the spirit of it.

[seabeyond]

5. truly amazing how conditioned we are in sexism that something so obviously in the face as that

is totally overlooked.

just fuckin amazing.

thank you.

[Xedniw]

9. I also wrote something in Meta-Discussion about it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240156248

[seabeyond]

11. i took note. lol.

and thank you.

that is a very good post and much appreciated. and i have bdays.... today. and hubby on the way out of town. so will have to get back to it.

but, thank you.

[Xedniw]

2. Nice!

And true.

[aaaaaa5a]

3. I like the poster but...

shouldn't it be..... And yet,

Your poster has a good message, thats the only reason I have turned into the dreaded grammar police.

[Playinghardball]

7. Yes it should be AND

[surrealAmerican]

6. I thought the military was one of the few places ...

... where women are guaranteed the same wage for the same job.

[Xedniw]

8. Combat pay is higher, which is why admitting that women are in combat is an economic issue

Also, when these women get home, they face the good old American workplace that wants to pay them less than men, despite their service.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

10. Women serving in combat zones get the same combat pay that men do

Barring women from some "combat specialities" isn't a pay for performance issue, rather it's an advancement issue. Not allowing women to serve in the specialties make it harder for them to advance to higher ranks, which in the long run, does affect pay.

However, men and women that are of the same rank, same speciality and same number of years in service make the same pay based on where they are serving.

[Xedniw]

12. Yes. I thought I implied that, but thanks for fleshing it out.

[WinkyDink]

13. Well, women--as with men---are open to volunteering, anyway. Not so sure about the "asked" part.

[Dash87]

15. They're asked by lying recruiters. People who openly make stuff up to get naive 18-year-olds to sign

their lives away.

[Dash87]

14. And while doing so, they're constantly raped.

When trying to get help or justice, they're denied both and told to stop making problems. And worse, no one wants to do anything about it. 'Our military is absolutely perfect' they say. Only an America-hater would say otherwise.