The media has become obsessed by the death of a precious, 'brave' little woman in Afghanistan, yet almost completely ignores her male colleagues who also died on that day. Their names - in case you didn't know - are L/Cpl Richard Larkin, Trooper Paul Stout and Cpl Sean Reeve.
It's truly sickening. All you read in the media is "Sarah Bryant this" and "Sarah Bryant that"... Did the sun actually shine out of her arse or something? Did she find the cure for cancer? No. She's a fucking woman, that's all.
Female 'soldiers' constitute a full one-fifth of the army's 'strength' in Afghanistan yet represent only 1% of total casualties. That really says a LOT.
Story here, here and here.
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This reminds me of the case last year when a boat load of navy personnel were abducted by the Iranians. There was only one woman in a crew of about ten but she received all the media attention.
In the last Gulf war, a huge proportion of female personnel suddenly got pregnant, effectively taking them off duty.
All of this is documented in The Myth of Male Power by Warren Farrell.
We now need to find out more about other, more recent, wars to see if a similar picture emerges.
It was my understanding that women were never to be used in a front-line situation. Indeed, this woman wasn't, she just happened to be on an unlucky training exercise that got bombed. I have no idea what makes her death so special, it seems more like an accident. Now if she had been taking on the Taliban, guns blazing.....
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