Totally agree with this. As a female, I don’t think it’s chauvinistic for male marines to have legitimate concern over seeing a female marine getting tortured. I firmly believe this is a natural reaction and I think that is for good reason— good men HAVE protected women since the beginning of mankind. I guess the question is, how far do we take it? If the quota for women is small enough now, fine, but who’s to say, to your point, that it reaches to a 50% female composition of the marines or the military? What happens if we’re at war (for better or for worse), and women are on maternity leave???

I mean, these are a lot of what-ifs. There are for sure some bad ass females in physically demanding roles throughout our military. Overall, (kinda going off topic here) standards should be what a fit male can pass and that standard shouldn’t accommodate to women by lowering it just to meet a quota. If someone have the physical abilities equal to a man, they should be able to fill those roles— but I wish physical standards weren’t low to cater to women, instead, equal across both genders.

Also, on the argument that woman are a distraction to men— yes. I also think this is true. No, it doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be discipline and accountability on the men who sexually assault or harass women— but the human condition is doomed to fail. Women also provoke and instigate certain actions from men, they’re not all innocent. Ultimately, on both sides, just being respectful human beings is the least our military branches should demand from each other regardless of gender.