michaelo@tektronix.UUCP (Michael O'Hair) (07/08/85)
[ this is not a superstition... ] Quite some time ago I was discussing "women in combat" with a woman who said that she'd heard that the Israeli army was ceasing to train women for combat. One reason (in her opinion) was that the women lacked the conflict-control socialization process that men undergo as boys. The result of the military training was to develop trained killers for whom any conflict was open to immediate escalation to physical violence. This was, in her opinion, a ruse to keep women "in their place" and deprive them of a means of independence. Can anyone (in Israel?) verify/resolve this? Was/is there any information on the long term effects of combat training on women? Michael O'Hair Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 500 Beaverton, OR 97077 M/S 50-709 1-503-627-6049 tektronix!michaelo