Kathleen Parker on Women in Combat

Um, there are a few decent points mixed in this here and there...but overall it's pretty appalling.

My favorite part is: "just because we don't 'feel' humiliated doesn't mean we're not. In the eyes of Iran and other Muslim nations, we're wimps."

Um, if some jackass thinks we're wimps for, ya know, treating women like people...well, I just can't get too worked up by that. And: who, again, would win in a fight, us or these folks who think we're wimps? Furthermore, one might point out that just because we're humiliated "in someone's eyes" doesn't mean we're humiliated. Somebody's wrong about what's objectively humiliating here, and it isn't us.

I actually do worry about the threat of rape to women in combat, and would be interested in hearing a, ya know, sensible discussion of that sometime. But you won't find such a discussion in this bone-headed Parker piece.