US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has previously expressed opposition to women serving in combat, has ordered the military to develop gender-neutral physical fitness standards for frontline troops,…
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has previously expressed opposition to women serving in combat, has ordered the military to develop gender-neutral physical fitness standards for frontline troops, a memo released Monday said.
"Gender neutral" - conveniently written in a way that emphasizes the athletic feats that men have an advantage in, while downplaying those that women have an advantage in. This will be "gender neutral" in the way that most unisex shirts are. (Ie, just declaring the male as default.) If you wanted to, you could write a "gender neutral" fitness standard that women would pass at ten times the rate men do.
Hell, the US military learned the flaw of relying on averages back during the 1950s.
This is especially wild when you consider that some of the sports / feats women are often if not usually better at include shooting, distance / endurance events, and withstanding high g-forces without losing consciousness, which are way more useful in a modern military than the high jump or javelin throwing.
Even biologically, men are woman if the anti-muellerian hormone is not surpressed during the fetal development.(Usually happens if the gene in males is missing or suppressed that)
Being born with the appendage designed for peeing standing up is significantly more important than all that other stuff you mentioned. Simply having a uterus makes women 10x worse, duh.
Reminder that every country that oppresses half of its population and prevents them from having the same access and rights tend to... fail on every societal level. But, they are also the most religious countries, so if that's what we're going for over things like infrastructure, jobs and "safe drinking water" then we're definitely on the right track.*
*I've been informed that the term "safe drinking water" has been banned.
They can make it as equal as they want--IF they actually align the standards to the fitness needs of each job. But then they might have to admit that office work doesn't require an 8 minute mile.