Saturday, September 19, 2009

Women in army-Gender bias?

This post is just an opinion on the newslink (obviously of TOI):
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5028294.cms

And especially for this particular remark:

"We have doubts on why you should do it for male officers and not for the women. Why are they treated differently?" the court asked.
Well am not a gender biased person or anything but one thing I firmly agree on that on an average men are physically stronger than females. Now you can point out 100 exceptions but I assure you those number of exceptions will be quite finite (maybe even countable). So for any job that is a physical job I will be biased towards men and for most jobs against women too. And especially for army I find no reason why women should be preferred for killing other person and living in tough conditions over men?

As I said am not gender biased so dont apply the above principle to any other kind of jobs thats just skill, intellect or a routine job that doesnt require anything. Its just for jobs that require physical strength. For those who contest this claim also or want to give some examples here is my suggestion: watch finals of any sport that has different section for men and women and compare the record time or anything. Be it athletics, tennis or any other sport (can leave out gymnastics here probably...not sure).

Another thing is that for those women who really want equality should expect no concessions for being a women (like claming mahila seat in bus or expecting etiquettes like opening of door for them or whatever). This is the same principle of reserved categories wanting equality and wanting concessing because they are from that caste at the same time. If you want to be considered in the same level then you should play on the same field. Only till the time being you want to get to this level you should have concessions (for the reason the reservations were implemented to get the scheduled class at the same par).

Just my thoughts no offence here. I certainly like women :)

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