Woman breaks "glass ceiling" in the army.?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/female_general

For the first time in American history a woman has been chosen for promotion to four-star general.

What are your thoughts on this?

Answer 1

That feminisms glass ceiling is a load of c**p.

Edit

If you want things to change immediately (I want it now), then I suppose you could say there is a plastic ceiling (not as hard as glass), but if you want things to change in the long term, then you are already there. It is feminists who are jumping up and down like spoiled little brats, that are making things untenable.

You surely cant expect the army to lesson there need for "YOU GOT MY BACK" just so the feminists can stop jumping. IT AINT GOING TO HAPPEN.

We can, to some point, allow and afford (like I said, to some point) people with less qualifications or future growth (women, migrants, disabled ect) to take positions that can effectively be shared among many to hold it together.

The killing fields however, have no room for your sh**.

You will get what you want, in the process of time. Not NOW NOW NOW.

Answer 2

good for her!!!

there's no reason not to promote a woman to that position,or any other one,she's a person like everyone else,I'm surprised it took this long for it to happen,but there's just more men who make a career out of the army than women,i guess that's why it took so long.

:)

Answer 3

She is responsible for equipping, outfitting and arming soldiers throughout the Army. She is the Army's mom.

I agree with what Shamu says about women fighting on the front line, because I stated it yesterday, that if a woman can meet the same standards as a man she should have the right to fight on the front lines. It is well earned and she is an equal to her male counterparts.

I mentioned an average score of 80 (240 overall) on the male standards of the fitness test, but I'd knock it down to an average score of 65 to 70 on the male standards of the fitness test (195 to 210 overall) to be eligible for fighting on the front line. It would help if they got rid of the female scale and use only one scale, the male scale.

Answer 4

i hope they take the nuke codes away when she gets pms

Answer 5

I wonder what feminists will say about the glass ceiling now.

Answer 6

HOOAH!

That is outstanding! And about time, too... There have been a few others that would have made good candidates in the past, but Lt. General Dunwoody is as good as they come. I truly hope she gets it.

Answer 7

She shouldn't have gotten the job.  Not because she's a women but because she doesn't have combat experience.  I'm fine with a women as a high ranking general if she's proven herself on the field.  But the facts of the matter is that men are built for war.  This isn't really sexism, evolution tells us that men were designed for combat.  If a women breaks the mold then I wish her nothing but the best, but she has to prove herself.

Answer 8

Good for her. That's all I have to say.

Answer 9

I'm sure it was well earned.

Answer 10

Traditionally it requires combat experience to get promoted to full general, this was kinda brushed away.  This is nothing more than political.  Woman or Man she doesn't have the requirments but yet still got the promotion, of coarse she gonna be ridiculed.

Answer 11

more power to her i guess

Answer 12

Super duper, girl power!

Answer 13

the more women in upper ranks, the eaiser it's gonna be for us ladies in the lower ranks to get the respect we deserve.

good for her.

Answer 14

Probably she earned it.

Men are much less afraid to die, than women, and for this reason men will always outnumber women in the leadership ranks of the miltary.

Answer 15

weird.....but scary lol

Answer 16

I wish we didnt have armies.

They only are for one thing.

And whenever a country makes war, it always says it's about defense, but it never is.

Even World War I, for example, was just a bunch of nations arming and arming  untill they just had to "get to" play with it all, like boys with exciting toys.

Bloody animal that we are.

I dont like the excuses.

War only makes more war. Only peace makes peace.

Do you suppose if someone bombed Montana we'd respond by admitting we might have  done something to deserve  RETALIATION , and so do nothing back, and seek to make peaceful relations instead, because it be the right thing to do?

No, we wouldn't.

What we'd do is a guy with a 70 IQ would stand on the rubble hugging a fireman, promising we'd go  spill some blood too!

And then the pre-emptive war plans would come to light.

And the speculations about wagging dogs

But everyone would prefer the lies instead of reality.

George could've had a nobel peace prize.

We could've been in a safer world now.

A better one.

Instead I'd be afraid to travel abroad frankly, because the world hates us.

And I hate us. I feel ashamed to be part of such a violent pack of excuses to go mass-murder and country-invade just to get to be the latest bully boy on the block dominating the whole world.

And my country which used to be about being free is more right wing than ever, more Animal Farm, more Big Brother.More ugly interferance by the most secret governmenjt we've had.And people dont even pick the president anymore.

I'm not "proud" of how we responded as a nation.

I'm repulsed and saddened.

Before you whip out your thumbs - and you will - I'd just like to end by quoting someone whose simple plea seems so to-the-point for me still:

"Can't we all just get along?"

Now go ahead and thumb me and tell me about how war is necessary.

And there's something wrong with people who'd want to do something better than it instead (how dare us).

Just be forewarned I'll never be convinced of that.

I mean how far must I go to shame people into not being so QUICK to defend  killing and country invading? -excusing it as "needed" , by citing phonied evidence and incredible claims.

Must I change my end quote to "Turn the other cheek"?

"Thou shalt not kill" ? "Vengeance is mine sayeth the lord"?

Answer 17

good, i saw that too lol.

But that was kinda fast to me...i didnt think that was going to happen for awhile.

Answer 18

That's great, and I don't think they'd have chosen her if she hadn't earned it three times over.

*Edit* You wonder what the feminists will say about the glass ceiling now? I'll say that now there's a hole in it.

Answer 19

I saw that article. I was like "woo hoo!"  Good on her!

Answer 20

Yah and I bet its just a coincidence that happened during an election year. Its just a political move to help McCain get at least some of the female vote. Generals arent around for long anyway to not "clog up" the promotion line.

Answer 21

About time!

Too bad she won't last, as every decision she makes will be challenged and ridiculed

Answer 22

we like to make you ladies feel special every now and then,   jk   good for her.

Answer 23

Over due and another sign of the Military's realistic view of what must change about it as our culture evolves.