Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version Tektronix Network News Daemon (B 2.10.2 based); site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!michaelo From: michaelo@tektronix.UUCP (Michael O'Hair) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Israeli women in combat Message-ID: <5479@tektronix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 13:40:26 EDT Article-I.D.: tektroni.5479 Posted: Mon Jul 8 13:40:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 00:28:22 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 26 [ this is not a superstition... ] Quite some time ago I was discussing "women in combat" with a woman who said that she'd heard that the Israeli army was ceasing to train women for combat. One reason (in her opinion) was that the women lacked the conflict-control socialization process that men undergo as boys. The result of the military training was to develop trained killers for whom any conflict was open to immediate escalation to physical violence. This was, in her opinion, a ruse to keep women "in their place" and deprive them of a means of independence. Can anyone (in Israel?) verify/resolve this? Was/is there any information on the long term effects of combat training on women? Michael O'Hair Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 500 Beaverton, OR 97077 M/S 50-709 1-503-627-6049 tektronix!michaelo