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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Equal opportunity is not equal outcome
	Date:	2/19/2012 12:53:51 PM

If you weren't so busy formulating your response, you would have read that I do not believe in reducing the standards for women. I think that if women want to be police officers, fire fighters, etc, they should have to meet the same standards as men. And I think the vast majority of them do.
And the differences in the PT test for men and women is only to meet the minimum. Women are just as free as men to exceed the standard set for them and many, many do.

I'm sorry to say guys that I think your age is showing. You grew up in another era. Most young guys today are used to young women being "equal" -- they live in the same dorms and have women as friends. Some of them have been on the same sports teams as girls. I think a lot of young men don't think of young women as sisters, wives and mothers.
They are not shocked to have a woman for a boss or a colleague. I don't think they view them as someone that needs to be protected. A friend of mine's 29-year-old wife was kiled flying counter-drug surveillance mission in Colombia. She was the pilot and their plane was shot down. She was a West Point graduate and a soldier. Her body came home in pieces. I don't think anyone thought she was less than equal.