{"id":59413,"date":"2015-04-21T19:03:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T23:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59413"},"modified":"2015-04-22T03:38:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T07:38:13","slug":"showering-with-friends-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59413","title":{"rendered":"Showering With Friends &#8211; Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is directly in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59403\">Jonn&#8217;s post and the comments.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As long as he allows I have a platform,<a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58084\"> and I already used it to amplify what I believe to be the primary issue here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not strong enough &#8211; not aggressive enough, etc, etc. Not really relevant.<\/p>\n<p>You have, likely, always served next to someone that you didn&#8217;t fully trust to do the job. Everyone has weaknesses, mind you.<\/p>\n<p>BUT&#8230;How do we adjust to natural hormones? On guard duty somewhere and your mind turns to the one at the next post. She met every requirement that you did&#8230; but her smile makes you dream just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Set aside the closeted gay. I don&#8217;t have any real numbers easily at hand, but apart from the recent profoundly PC years and I suspect it was a small number during WWII, and rarely an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless: When females become a significant proportion of combat arms what becomes of the mission? <strong>I&#8217;ve heard that there are drugs that suppress hormones, etc.\u00a0 sounds like the next step.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are any number of positions where females and males can, and have, served together with honor and effectiveness &#8211; I am struggling to put &#8220;in the mud&#8221; combat arms in that category.<\/p>\n<p>Last note: Segregation! It&#8217;ll never fly in our PC\/Bizarro world, but meets every rational criteria including the hormonal one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is directly in response to Jonn&#8217;s post and the comments. As long as he allows I have a platform, and I already used it to amplify what I believe to be the primary issue here. Not strong enough &#8211; not aggressive enough, etc, etc. Not really relevant. You have, likely, always served next to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-fsh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}