Some advice on women in combat from a female veteran:

I'm a female veteran. I deployed to Anbar Province, Iraq. When I was active duty, I was 5'6, 130 pounds, and scored nearly perfect on my PFTs. I naturally have a lot more upper body strength than the average woman: not only can I do pull-ups, I can meet the male standard. I would love to have been in the infantry. And I STILL think it will be an unmitigated disaster to incorporate women into combat roles. I am not interested in risking men's lives so I can live my selfish dream.

We're not just talking about watering down the standards to include the politically correct number of women into the unit. This isn't an issue of "if a woman can meet the male standard, she should be able to go into combat." The number of women that can meet the male standard will be minuscule – I'd have a decent shot according to my PFTs, but dragging a 190-pound man in full gear for 100 yards would DESTROY me – and that minuscule number that can physically make the grade AND has the desire to go into combat will be facing an impossible situation that will ruin the combat effectiveness of the unit. First, the close quarters of combat units make for a complete lack of privacy and EVERYTHING is exposed, to include intimate details of bodily functions. Second, until we succeed in completely reprogramming every man in the military to treat women just like men, those men are going to protect a woman at the expense of the mission. Third, women have physical limitations that no amount of training or conditioning can overcome. Fourth, until the media in this country is ready to treat a captured / raped / tortured / mutilated female soldier just like a man, women will be targeted by the enemy without fail and without mercy.

I saw the male combat units when I was in Iraq. They go outside the wire for days at a time. They eat, sleep, urinate and defecate in front of each other and often while on the move. There's no potty break on the side of the road outside the wire. They urinate into bottles and defecate into MRE bags. I would like to hear a suggestion as to how a woman is going to urinate successfully into a bottle while cramped into a humvee wearing full body armor. And she gets to accomplish this feat with the male members of her combat unit twenty inches away. Volunteers to do that job? Do the men really want to see it? Should they be forced to?

Everyone wants to point to the IDF as a model for gender integration in the military. No, the IDF does not put women on the front lines. They ran into the same wall the US is about to smack into: very few women can meet the standards required to serve there. The few integrated units in the IDF suffered three times the casualties of the all-male units because the Israeli men, just like almost every other group of men on the planet, try to protect the women even at the expense of the mission. Political correctness doesn't trump thousands of years of evolution and societal norms. Do we really WANT to deprogram that instinct from men?

Regarding physical limitations, not only will a tiny fraction of women be able to meet the male standard, the simple fact is that women tend to be shorter than men. I ran into situations when I was deployed where I simply could not reach something. I wasn't tall enough. I had to ask a man to get it for me. I can't train myself to be taller.

Yes, there are small men. but not so nearly so many as small women. More, a military PFT doesn't measure the ability to jump. Men, with more muscular legs and bones that carry more muscle mass than any woman can condition herself to carry, can jump higher and farther than women. That's why we have a men's standing jump and long jump event in the Olympics separate from women. When you're going over a wall in Baghdad that's ten feet high, you have to be able to be able to reach the top of it in full gear and haul yourself over. That's not strength per se, that's just height and the muscular explosive power to jump and reach the top. Having to get a boost from one of the men so you can get up and over could get that man killed.

Without pharmaceutical help, women just do not carry the muscle mass men do. That muscle mass is also a shock absorber. Whether it's the concussion of a grenade going off, an IED, or just a punch in the face, a woman is more likely to go down because she can't absorb the concussion as well as a man can. And I don't care how the PC forces try to slice it, in hand-to-hand combat the average man is going to destroy the average woman because the average woman is smaller, period. Muscle equals force in any kind of strike you care to perform. That's why we don't let female boxers face male boxers.

Lastly, this country and our military are NOT prepared to see what the enemy will do to female POWs. The Taliban, AQ, insurgents, jihadis, whatever you want to call them, they don't abide by the Geneva Conventions and treat women worse than livestock. Google Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca if you want to see what they do to our men (and don't google it unless you have a strong stomach) and then imagine a woman in their hands. How is our 24/7 news cycle going to cover a captured, raped, mutilated woman? After the first one, how are the men in the military going to treat their female comrades? ONE Thomasina Tucker is going to mean the men in the military will move heaven and earth to protect women, never mind what it does to the mission. I present you with Exhibit A: Jessica Lynch. Male lives will be lost trying to protect their female comrades. And the people of the US are NOT, based on the Jessica Lynch episode, prepared to treat a female POW the same way they do a man.

I say again, I would have loved to be in the infantry. I think I could have done it physically, I could've met almost all the male standards (jumping aside), and I think I'm mentally tough enough to handle whatever came. But I would never do that to the men. I would never sacrifice the mission for my own desires. And I wouldn't be able to live with myself if someone died because of me.

• Sentry

It's time to face the fact that feminism has failed. It has caused massive destruction in our country, politically, morally, and economically. It has devastated marriage, resulting in large numbers of divorced and unmarried women, single mothers and all the associated social/economic problems. It is a constant thorn in the side of business, resulting in endless lawsuits. It has resulted in women not having the option to work, but rather being forced to work outside the home in order to make ends meet.

Large numbers of children are aborted or raised without fathers, resulting in historic numbers of teen pregnancies, juvenile delinquency, gang activity, and all the associated social/economic problems. The black community, which used to have a growing middle class and higher rates of marriage than whites, has been debased and destroyed.

Women's liberation has made the electorate much more easily manipulated through fear (and sympathy), and it has shifted our entire political spectrum to the left, resulting in skyrocketing debt, taxes, and inflation, constant foreign wars, uncontrolled illegal immigration, BLM riots, rampant crime, and all other manner of ridiculous social problems. We now have trannies in the military and mentally ill men demanding to use women's restrooms. We are inundated with sexual harassment lawsuits and men being falsely accused, having their lives destroyed. We have female judges and crazy mothers forcing sex changes onto their sons against their father's permission. We have become the laughingstock of the whole world.

Birth control drugs are now known to cause brain damage, and to alter normal patterns of sexual selection and reproduction. Sperm counts are falling. Men are becoming feminized and weak. We have an entire generation of STD infected sluts, unable to find marriageable men, since the men are all smoking bong hits and playing video games. Everyone is fat and has pink hair, covered in tattoos and body piercings. A large percentage of young men are virgins, unable to find romantic partners. A small number of men are sleeping with most of the available women, resulting in modern-day harems. As a result, an unprecedented number of women are aging and alone, with historically high levels of childlessness, anxiety and mental illness, and many on anti-depressant drugs. Many young women are selling their bodies for the money they need for school so they can have a "career" they will eventually regret.

This will not end well; it's not sustainable. How will society pay for all of this in the future? It can't. We're already bankrupt. Many people are going to suffer in their old age. Happiness levels of both sexes are at an all-time low, and birthrates are below replacement levels -- our civilization is committing generational suicide.

If you could go back in time 100 years ago and show that patriarchal society what we would become as a result of women's liberation, what would they think? What would the women think, knowing the fate of their descendants? The warnings against women's liberation from that time have all come true, and even far beyond what they could have imagined back then.

We must repent of this evil.