THE DIVERSITY PLATOON
Editors Note: This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.)
The Current Situation
Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We have since gone from mutual disdain to the point that the military polls as the nation’s most trusted institution. Those who first accomplished the turnaround were the very Vietnam (and often WWII or Korean War or both) veterans who had been lied about and spit upon. The vehicle that enabled them to make the change is erroneously called The All Volunteer Force (AVF). In reality, it’s the All Recruited Force.
Those who molded the AVF pursued the single minded goal of improved war fighting capabilities. Those who followed them continued that pursuituntil, most unfortunately, relatively recently. The war fighting goal and most trusted institution status are now in danger of being buried under dual avalanches of operational commitments and political correctness, including the loudly proclaimed virtue of diversity.
For example, we have Afghanistana 10 plus year war involving our unrelenting support of a corrupt government despised and ignored by the bulk of its population. Or, Iraq, where we only recentlyand extremely quietly began pointing out that neighboring Iran has had much to do with the killing of American soldiers and Marines. Adding to those two examples of how to not commit forces to war, we lurched into a third war and in the process, reach heretofore unexplored levels of the bizarrea war of days not weeks in Libya turned into a war of months not days as we led from the rear. We have corporals and lieutenants who are on their third or fourth combat tour; the gear is worn out; an anti – US mullah in Iraq periodically threatens to attack U.S. troops; the corrupt president of Afghanistan has much to say when American troops accidentally injure or kill Afghan civilians and nothing to say when the Taliban do it deliberately; and troops and officers preparing to deploy to combat are receiving intensive training regarding how to accept openly gay leaders and troops in their ranks.
That’s not all. We have the Military Leadership Diversity Commission. That august body, created by Congress in 2009, believes that, the diversity of our service members is the unique strength of our military. Not training, not equipment, not technology, not small unit leadership. No sir, diversity. According to the commission, we must broaden, our understanding of diversity. Adding insult to injury, there are senior military and naval officers who now march in the ranks of the Diversity Platoon.
In these days of Washington politically correct deception – speak where war is a kinetic military action, what does broadening our understanding of diversity really mean? Well, the commission points out that we must get women into real combat positions in order to level the career playing field for promotions. The commission then reaches further into the realm of the absurd by noting that our Armed Forces have too many white male officers.
Given the illogic of today’s Washingtonian logic, if diversity continues to be the rallying cry of commissions, politicians, and cooperative senior officers, it is but a matter of little more than a decade before we see the complaint that the percentage of heterosexual male officers of all races is too high, followed by demands that the playing field be leveled for gays, transsexuals and cross dressers.
The excessive number of white male officers complaint should be rejected out of hand. During the past three decades, the services have done more than any other institution to attract and reward qualified minority members. It should also be noted that the percentage of white male officers is only a few percentage points above the percentage of whites in the population. Any complaint in this area should be made on grounds that selection boards are discriminating against minorities, a whopper that would be tough to prove.
What cannot be rejected out of hand is the cry to put women in combat in order to enhance promotion opportunities. That is the Diversity Platoon’s current point of main effort and it is one giving no thought to enhanced combat readiness and efficiency. Instead of floundering around in a Flanders Field of political correctness, ensuring that we increase the numbers of killed and maimed females, let’s return to the days of yesteryear when combat readiness and improved war fighting capabilities were all the rage. We will find better ideas. First among them is the idea that we should think more about wars and their characteristics.
Wars
All wars are intended to be short wars. Most wars become long wars. Wars are easy to start and hard to stop. Wars fought by the United States are fought in different climes and places against different enemies. One size does not fit all.
War is not a game. No two wars are the same. None occur on playing fields. All occur on killing fields.
The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet has not fought a fleet engagement since WWII and it may never again. But there is now more than a little concern about China’s naval buildup. Chasing pirates or launching missiles at targets ashore is one thing. Fighting ships that fight back is quite another. Read Neptune’s Inferno, The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal. The carnage is unbelievable and the physical strength required to move casualties or take ship saving measures impressive. Today, women serve in combatant vessels, a practice that we could come to regret in the future. Why make it worse?
On the land warfare side, we can go back to Vietnam. The grunts of northern I Corps and other places need no reminder but for the initiated, it would be a good idea to read the novel, Matterhorn. One can carp about the portrayals of senior officers and others; however, the author got it dead right when it came to terrain, physical demands, fatigue, hunger, jungle rot, wounds and leeches. If you prefer non – fiction, there is always the late Eugene B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Peleliu and Okinawa were not games being played on level fields.
None of the above examples describe places where rational parents would want their sons, much less daughters. Yet a society must defend itself and the associated combat has always, for good reason, been the province of males. Regarding land warfare, what must be remembered is that it requires more than reconnaissance and infantry units to round out the anvil chorus of combatartillerymen, combat engineers, tankers, amphibious assault vehicle operators, and Fleet Marine Force Navy Corpsmen all serve in combat and each could provide examples of why their contribution to combat is a men only world.
There are innumerable examples of combat realities associated with other wars but these should be enough to inspire those seeking reality to do their own research. And no, we should not level the killing fields for women by keeping them out of the killing fields until they are senior enough to be in command positions in the rear. Why? Competence. Finding competent battlefield leadership has historically proven difficult. Why increase the difficulty by opening the killing field to even more potential incompetents?
The country has accumulated vast amounts of debt. In fact, the country is facing bankruptcy and the Department of Defense is rapidly becoming a major budget reduction target. Yet the Navy has decided to spend millions modifying submarines to accommodate women crew members. Why? Would women crew members enhance combat capabilities? Is the Navy unable to find enough males to serve in submarines? Have not enough social and leadership problems been generated in the surface fleet to warrant caution when dealing with submarines? Before too much money is spent, the Navy should be required to justify submarine modification expenses on combat efficiency grounds, not level killing fields.
Women now serve in aviation combat units. However, the type of combat in which the nation has been involved lately has not resulted in major losses of aircraft. What happens when there is a Tehran Hilton or some other Hanoi Hilton counterpart? What would happen to women POW’s and what would be the public’s reaction? What would happen if we find another war where hot helicopter or Osprey landing zones are commonplace? Will female crew be able to pull the injured out of the wreckage? Maybe so. If not, who explains the losses?
In today’s wars, women are playing a significant and essential combat support role. The wars involve interaction with Muslim civilian populations and their stringent rules regarding females. Women must be involved, a fact putting them in harm’s way. An active duty male Marine captain participating in one of the internet discussions regarding women in combat was effusive in his praise of Women Marines detailed to serve as sentries on entry control points (ECP’s) at infamous Fallujah of Iraqi War fame. One morning, the convoy taking the sentries (male and female) to the ECP’s was attacked by a vehicle borne suicide bomber. There were numerous KIA and WIA. The bomb attack was followed by sniper fire. A female Lance Corporal, led a charge forward to a firing position and began yelling out sectors of fire to the Marines providing security as casualties continued to be pulled from the burning wreckage. She is to be admired. So, too, are those who foresaw the possible problem and gave her the necessary training. The captain went on to express admiration for the willingness of women to volunteer for the dangerous duty because the presence of women was necessary.
In Afghanistan, Marine commands have established and deployed, Female Engagement Teams (FET’s) comprised of two to four females each. The FET’s are deployed to austere locations (rifle company positions), to search and interact with Afghan women, something that male Marines cannot do. To preclude inevitable problems, Marine commanders adopted the policy of restricting the deployments to 30 days followed by a return to a major operating base before deploying to another austere location. The FET’s provide necessary support to combat operations. That and nothing more.
The Marine Corps Times report regarding FET’s includes interviews of male and female Marines. The consensus can be summarized by stating that, in addition to the inevitable distracting social problems, females do not normally have the physical strength required to perform as infantrymenand I would argue also combat engineers, corpsmen, artillerymen, tankers and others who operate with them. Other than in exceptional and highly irregular, unavoidable situations, they do not belong in ground combat units.
The consensus included male and female Marines. Why are the opinions of those experienced Marines who have to live with the decisions ignored? Because in today’s America, Washington progressives and their supportive media know best. In reality, the one thing Washington knows best is bankrupting the country while obfuscating the deed with a top cover of lies. The nation is allowing political correctness to overtake commonsense and millennia of experience. Why don’t we do the sensible thing? Rather than risk losing combat efficiency by forcing the nation’s daughters into combat situations in the name of leveled killing fields, why not improve the lot of those males and females who are committed to combat or combat support roles? Examining wars from Korea onward, one finds egregious errors. Some of them more than once. The most obvious should be the subject of brief mention.
For starters, the nation should enter wars to winand winning should be defined in clearly understood military terms before the first bomb drops. We should never again allow an enemy safe havens from which to operate as we did in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan; if you can’t isolate the war, don’t get involved. Never again support a government that its citizens consider corrupt and irrelevant. Finally, nation building as it has been attempted in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan is a farce, wasteful of both lives and money, because there apparently is no joint Defense Department – State Department doctrine upon which to base the combination of military and reconstruction operations. If there is such a doctrine, it should be either read or revised.
The All Recruited Force
We have come full circle to the All Recruited Force, the force honed to a state of excellence unmatched in the world and the force currently under assault from within America by the civilian – military Diversity Platoon. The All Volunteer or All Recruited Force is the result of hard work by dedicated recruiters and their commanders. Theirs is a crucial, extremely difficult assignment. One of the great aids available to, and employed by, recruiters is a class of people called, influencers. Those who influence young men and women to join. Among the influencers is a valuable and effective category.relatives and friends who have served and who encourage youth to do likewise. The percentage of those now serving who were influenced by that category is high. Very high. It may be high enough to become the difference between success and failure of the recruiting effort, especially during time of war. Needless to say, those serving today will themselves become influencers if so inclined.
It would be a great idea if those promoting the causes of political correctness and diversity were to consider that fact when working so hard to shove bright ideas down the throats of those serving the nation in its Armed Forces. The Diversity Platoon is running amok, largely unchallenged. In an era wherein disdain for and mistrust of official Washington is a dominant public attitude. The most trusted U.S. institution is now in danger of becoming nothing more than an integral part of the nation’s Washington – inspired march to mediocrity.
The mindless babbling of The Diversity Platoon ignores the lessons of the past as it panders to the gods of political correctness in its quest for diversity … a quest bound to eventually destroy that which has been built at such cost. It would be a great idea if those promoting the causes of political correctness and diversity were to consider that fact when working so hard to shove bright ideas down the throats of those serving the nation in its Armed Forces.
It has to stop. For the national good, it must stop. And the only way that’s going to happenmaybeis if the Americans who pay for the manufacture and distribution of Washington’s effluent bombard the jackasses on Capitol Hill with emails and letters of protest.
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Sir,
Let me analyze your proposition a second. You’re saying that the only way the current trend will be reversed is if Americans rise up as one and demand it. Now, who’s the target demographic here? It’s pretty obvious that women and minorities, in general, are not going to turn against diversity, being its primary beneficiaries-I’ve never heard of an entire social class voluntarily relinquishing power for no reason other than that is seems like the right thing to do. So, you’re saying that the only hope is that white men will, en masse, develop class consciousness and demand an end to diversity-based policies in the military (and make no mistake, that is the only way that women are not gonna get put in combat roles-the current situation is unsustainable, and the only stable position lies at the extremes.) And my question is, if they have been passive as a class in the face of 50 years of policies which have struck much closer to home (affirmative action in the workplace, sexual harassment lawsuits, forced integration, the transformation of large swaths of middle-class American cities into third world dumps, etc.,) then why would they rally around this issue? Most of them have never served in the military and have no first hand idea of what it involves. The subject matter experts, the officer class, are jumping over each other to sing diversity’s praises (it’s adaptive!) or keeping their faceholes clamped shut. So why are “Americans” going to bombard anyone with anything?
The answer (as best as I can see it)-they’re not. They’ve got bigger things to worry about, like the economy, and Twilight, and who’s gonna be the next American Idol. By the time the hordes are at the gates, the military that meets them will be fully integrated and politically correct, with predictable results.
Well Tim I guess the older you get the smarter your father gets. Thank you and thank your father for taking his time to write this. Many of us may know this is true but can’t articulate it as well as some OLG General.
Thank you for the post.Great read but sometimes i feel they would like to be at 1939 levels.
Thanks for this Sir. Very timely indeed. Lately, some economists/futurists have been stating that “culture” (much to my surprise, how politically incorrect of them) is one of the most important factors of how America (or any country)can continue to hold its own (let alone thrive)in the face of the increasing power of the BRIC countries and other developing regions. Imagine that – the “culture” of a nation is important! One can imagine many things comprising such a broad term as “culture”, including work ethic, levels of personal savings, commitment to free market, religious factors etc, however I think “military culture” would be an important subset of the group. Compare and contrast the various military cultures among the 194 countries in the world (thanks South Sudan for that 194th spot) – for example the US vs Italy vs Switzerland; the differences are significant.
If I was a despot with great ambitions and time on my side, I would go after my enemy country by eroding its “culture” to weaken it in advance of more nefarious future actions. I would strive to help bring a divisive head of state to power, to paralyze its government, to encourage mass protests against anything related to the “culture” which got it to its current position of strength, and, perhaps most importantly, would lobby against, infiltrate, and poison its “military culture” to render it impotent or at less effective. Oh wait….
1. Agree on diversity and woman combatants.
2. Go back 40 odd years and the ruck loaded with BDA weighed in at roughly 90 Lbs. The skinny, 120 Lb Mexican troop carried the same load I did.
3. Fast forward to late
seventies: TBS. The female officers (some of whom could run like deer), when wearing helmet and boots, carrying a rifle could not keep up with their platoon doing an airborne shuffle.
4. Saw an article in the Washington Post, couple years ago. Breathlessly reported that women at TBS were integrated down to platoon level -as a new thing. Typical high quality media research.
5. Anyway, back then, the USMC included female officers in activities they could not perform up to standard, did not allow them to wear camouflage paint, and insisted they tag along on tactical events they were not allowed to participate in.
6. My company commander spoke derisively to male officers about the female contingent. The women, of course, were instantly aware of this most unprofessional conduct: was an additional factor contributing to their extremely low morale.
7. Once, at the main O Club at Quantico, was part of a group bitching about this. We were overheard by a general officer who asked us to join him for a few minutes.
8. Were given a lecture on projected demographics, the need for high quality human material for force manning twenty or thirty years hence (now).
9. The jist was that a significant female component was going to be necessary.
10. We have been able to create a military force much more capable than any other in existence. I watch this with considerable envy -it is so much more than any of the half-assed outfits I served with.
11. The budget hawks, PC enforcers, diversity enthusiasts, and administrative geniuses are getting their cuts on operational efficiencies. See that as unavoidable.
12. Just hope our prospective opponents have more weaknesses than we do.
V/R JWest
I am just curious to hear everyone’s opinions, the author’s most of all, on women’s experiences in the Israeli Defense Forces. Women have been involved in combat in Israel since 1948, giving the country more hands-on experience with female combatants than any other nation in the world. Based on that experience, a 2007 report by the IDF concluded that including more women would enhance their military capacity. Clearly, those recommendations don’t come from a culture pushing a PC agenda.
What Israel did not do was institute any form of affirmative action, and they clearly stated that women must meet the same physical requirements as their male counterparts. Interestingly, it was female legislators that insisted female soldiers must meet the same requirements. Israeli women passed the physical standards set for men in armor and artillery, and enough of them passed the requirements for infantry that Israel fields a light infantry battalion composed entirely of women.
Israel is no stranger to conflict, and fields one of the best militaries in the world. Every generation of Israelis has served in combat, with women and men fighting side by side. Does anyone think America could learn something from the Israel model? Does anyone think that the different rates of qualification between Israeli and American servicewomen might teach us something about the standards set for American men (after all, the problem of US troops carrying too much unnecessary gear is a constant complaint from Baba Tim). If Israel can do it, and do it in a way that enhances their military AND sees women in more combat roles than in the US, then why can’t we? Why shouldn’t we?
Thank you all for your service and your insight. Cheers.
“Hell no, we won’t go!”
Don’t waste your time and effort trying to convince me our “all volunteer” military is great stuff: If such were the case, then why is MOH Dakota Meyer running into the trouble he has now?
Yea, MOH Dakota Meyer has found himself in a legal battle with a former British employer BAE over “disparaging remarks” which are alleged to have been made concerning his “character” and “deportment” which resulted in his (Meyer’s) being denied employment elsewhere.
Fox News had Marine LtCol. Cowan come to his defense just recently…kinda…in a article, go read it.
Pull up the special Marine salute video to MOH Meyer where the Commandant of the Marine Corps gives an “enlightened” speech praising this heroic warrior, this young and brave American.
Tell me the Marine Corps did not have plans for Dakota Meyer.
So, what happened? March up to Sec. Panetta in Defense and ask him what happened? Ask the VA about MOH Meyer?
You may anguish over homosexuals and females serving in combat, and you may bemoan the struggles of volunteers and long wars where “victory” is defined by…
Lawyers…you remember them, they were the guys and gals who years ago said:
“Hell no, we won’t go!”
They are the ones who hold political power in America. (Check the bios if you doubt me) (Don’t mention Kerry…)
Here is where the war needs to be won…first and foremost!
A 21 year old “kid” performs “heroically” and all is well?
Look at that picture of Obama-Mao standing behind MOH Meyer as he prepares to place the award ribbon…talk about detachment and disdain!
Oh, yea, he’s trained as a lawyer too, isn’t he? The pen is mightier than the sword, right? Read your Plato.
Make Barney Frank the Secretary of Defense, then you will have all the diversity one needs to see clearly and rationally.
But don’t worry, America is going to get her “wake-up call” as Bill Cinton (draft dodger and lawyer like his wife Hillary) used to say, “sooner, rather than later” if my worst fears are correct.
Even Senator Webb wants out of the Washington political scene…
The chances that there eventually will be female infantrymen is very good. The “lack of strength” argument will fail as the proponents of females in combat will produce a couple of varsity basketball players or body builders who will be stronger than some male soldiers. Then it will be a case by case basis with any female failing training having a ready made discrimination suit at hand. Wanting nothing to do with being accused of anti-female bias and negative career ramifications school staff will start to look the other way.
Careerist officers will see the way the wind is blowing and keep their mouth shut or join in for more inclusion. For an example check out the DADT debate. All the talk of mass resignations was rubbish. As long as a steady pay check and pension are on the line the vast majority of the force will go with the flow. This is the key to the success of AVF- mainly careerists and people with largely no other potential source of income- whatever social experiments are adopted will be eventually hailed by the officer corps as very clever and with silence by the enlisted ranks.
The only way to forestall more women in combat is to raise fitness standards for combat soldiers across the board regardless of component, age, rank or the lingering effects of wounds or illness. Call it the “NFL” standard of fitness. The standard to pass basic infantry training is the standard to stay in and that standard is very high. Of course you’ll lose lots of male recruit as well and basic training will be longer and have higher recycle rates but that is the cost of keeping women out of the infantry.
Still not sure our “real enemies” lie within America’s political establishment?
It is being reported today that our dear friend, Major Nidal Hasan, also known as the “Fort Hood Shooter” has had his “alleged” actions classified as “workplace violence” by this neo-Marxist government, led by that great commander in chief, Barak Hussein Obama!
Let’s get up close and personal with the relatives of those who lost loved ones due to “workplace violence” sooner, rather than later.
Speaking of this time moment, how long has it been since that bloody day?
Recall General Casey with his “diversity pleas” right after this event too!
How much American taxpayer dollars have been spent keeping this slime ball muslim alive?
Note to all: Obama-Mao’s game is to “bleed” America to death, using any and all avenues to achieve such. Try bailouts as a simple example, both here and in Europe for starters.
Know your enemy! He comes at you with big ears and a “sweet smile” which look a lot like a “pimp daddy” from the streets!
I have ranted about the evils a person trained as a lawyer can provide in government. Granted, there are many reasons one could find in choosing to attend a law school. Sophists know this too well.
Also, a generation of narcissists may in fact describe our so called “baby boomers” post WWII (”do your own thing, sex drugs and rock ‘n roll” are just a few slogans that come to mind).
When one sends our youth into battle, one makes more than a serious commitment, he engages our future of existence. This is more than just a serious decision.
Especially when those leaders have done everything in their power to avoid ever serving in our military! Think post Viet Nam, end the draft, enter the volunteer military right up to “kinetic military” verbage…language used to hide cowardice.
Not me…you go!
Forgive me if I have crossed a line on this blog and it’s comments section. Something to do with my life history, I suspect, along with being what my country considers a combat veteran.
Plato wrote his thoughts over 2300 years ago. What is so different today when one takes a look at this group?
WHO IS THE LAWYER?
Socrates Speaks:
“But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the water of the clepsydra driving him on, and not allowing him to expatiate at will: and there is his adversary standing over him, enforcing his rights; the indictment, which in their phraseology is termed the
affidavit, is recited at the time: and from this he must not deviate. He is a servant, and is continually disputing about a fellow-servant before his master, who is seated, and has the cause in his hands; the trial is never about some indifferent matter, but always concerns himself; (173) and often the race is for his life.
The consequence has been, that he has become keen and shrewd; he has
learned how to flatter his master in word and indulge him in deed; but his soul is small and unrighteous. His condition, which has been that of a slave from his youth upwards, has deprived him of growth and uprightness and independence; dangers and fears,which were too much for his truth and honesty, came upon him in early years, when the tenderness of youth was unequal to them, and he has been driven into crooked ways;from the first he has practiced deception and retaliation, and has become stunted and warped.
And so he has passed out of youth into manhood, having no soundness in him; and is now, as he thinks, a master in wisdom.
Such is the lawyer.
From: Dialogues of Plato, the Book of Theaetetus, The Great
Books, volume 7, 1952 edition, pages 528/529
I completely support diversity in most aspects of our country. The military is a unique institution that has to achieve a goal, it’s not a place where pc takes precedence over mission accomplishment.
My interaction with female Marines was limited because I was in a combat unit but every time it was disappointing. I was a combat engineer so we had females at our MOS school, went to corporal’s course and saw a few female Marines in Afghanistan. All I could think of was the unfortunate male Marines stuck in their units.
There’s a reason men have always been the warriors throughout history. Nature over nurture on this one I say.
I’m a student now and this came up in one of my classes. They knew I was prior service so they asked me my opinion, immediately labeled an asshole. If they don’t know anything about it, it’s hard for them to understand. I’m reminded of one of Babatim’s posts about the big lie. A General asked if females could do everything males could. Before anyone could respond he said that of course they could. PC bullcrap.
I’ll tell you this Devil Dog – you’re going to get that for the rest of your life. Stupid people are like zombies, they always pop up and ruin things when you least expect them and they are everywhere. Stick to your guns brother and remember you live in a country where there are thousands and thousands of guys (and gals) who believe in letting principals and reality guide them through life just like you do. You have a lot of friends out here in fly over country.
Semper Fi
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women can do certain things well. Fly planes and helicopters, do intel, and all sorts of other key MOS’s. But the moment they slow down a unit in any way, they become a liability, just like others with issues that affect their performance.
Good management requires that the manager maximize his/her resources and in war there is no second place. The standards must meet the requirements of the service and the MOS.
In attending the retirement ceremony of a friend who was a Master Chief SEAL in Coronado a while back I saw exactly one female active duty military. There can be no compromises.
I served with 2/26 with your Dad was S-3 of of 2.26. I was a platoon commander with Fox at the time that Jav was S-3. I joined the battalion after LZ Margo but did Operation Meade River and Bold Mariner when he was still the S-3 and Lt.Col Sparks was the CO.
He was an outstanding S-3 and due to his competence and skills brought a lot of Marines home.
His article, the Diversity Platoon is very accurate. I reality, the infantry is no place for a woman. They just do not have the upper body strength or stamina for infantry combat.
The time for social experimentation should end. I always find the hypocrisy of those who voted to end DADT and never been in a uniform.
The best to your Dad and Semper Fi,
Terry Arndt
Captain of Marines.
Very interesting. I fall in behind J Harlan and Devil’s Advocate on this one. I do not believe in discriminating women because they are women, I do believe in discriminating people because they do not perform as expected of them, wether it by physical or psychological. There can be no compromises, if a woman pass selection, she pass selection.
I’ve had experience with women in combat positions up to company level both as a soldier and officer. I’d rather have women with me that be without, for several reasons. I agree on that there are certain slots in the military that are -harder- for women, but that is not the same thing as a society being culturally inclined to -barring- women… or being afraid.
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