If women or any other life form can legitimately earn a place among the U.S. Rangers, or any other human endeavor, so be it. Equal opportunity for all; I see no reason for accosting any portion of the premise. If Army 1st Lt. Shaye Haver and Capt. Kristen Griest fulfilled the requisite requirements, have shown they can perform as mandated, and absent any legal rules or regulations to deny them, they should be elevated to what they have proven equal.
Does mixing genders in the military lead to complications? Sure it does. It’s a fact only the partial, those nebulized with an agenda, will reject. Yet, let us not forget in all this clamor of the jubilation and resentment this has triggered, that there are fundamental, incontestable, ineffable, and irrefutable differences between a woman and a man — and I’m not only talking about genitals.
True, there are exceptions where the one can physically do much that the other can, but the key word is “exceptions.” Until we’re all hermaphrodites, endowed with equal distribution of the qualities that make us male and female, no matter how society will strain to bend reality because it is correct politically, or it matches better to the artfully distorted, temporary moral standards that prevail at any given time, that fact won’t change, and may forever be observed by those immune to socio/political conditioning.
Michael E. White
BRUSH PRAIRIE
