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Article Excerpt
TWQ: Many people have said that since the attacks of September 11 masculinity is making a comeback. Can you comment on this?
TIGER: It's very hard to discern because we are talking about what is really a microscopic period of time. But there's certainly no question that, if nothing else, the people who have been doing the burly guy jobs have reason for enhanced self-esteem (a term I hate), because people now clearly realize that what these men do is nor only essential but dangerous. For the moment, the claim that women should be on the front lines and go into battle has subsided. Whether this will affect the reigning orthodoxy in the universities or the social worker mentality that seeks to use the government to change behavior in fundamental ways is another question.
TWQ: Proponents of women in combat may not want to admit that women would be at a disadvantage if fighting hand to hand against stronger men.
TIGER: Right, and they would lose, particularly if they were fighting the kind of ground war our special forces have been engaged in in Afghanistan. Not only would they lose, but, as the Israelis have found, if you put women in a situation like that, the men around them tend to become twice as brave and twice as reckless in order to protect them. Moreover, judging from what a lot of women in the military have said, they don't really want to be there. Women understand completely that they can do many things that are not on the front lines but are nevertheless very important.
For example, about a fifth of the officers in the Air Force are women and they serve many important functions. That's different from saying that everyone has to be able to do...
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