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Old 09-26-2012, 10:53 AM   #35
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Default Re: Creating Military Culture From Scratch

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Originally Posted by jason taylor View Post
The assumption that the near universal dominance of men in military organizations can only be explained by bigotry is a conspiracy theory. It posits that every military in the world must secretly be cooperating to exclude women for thousands of years, even when that is a military disadvantage which is the end result of the assumption that male dominant military systems are no more then equal in effectiveness to others. Making conspiracy theories about others on the mere basis that they are dominant in a given profession is itself a form of bigotry.
You don't need conspiracy when the status quo is more-or-less homogeneous.
A culture made of species which has identical racial templates for both sexes, contraception is cheap, reproduction is routinely done in exo-wombs, and sex essentially doesn't matter outside the bedroom, will not suddenly develop a bias even in a profession where in other cultures it is common.
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