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MDG: Yes, that is why they are called “male”, for they have no self control at all.
OneOfMany said: “MDG: So you’re saying that one of the most active and combat-ready military forces in the world is in some significant proportion structured around providing its soldiers opportunity for fornication?
…really? “
Yes. What does one have to do with the other? Men can be physically intimate and emotionally detached at the same time. We all need some entertainment – some are more Tahor than others.
What does your answer have to do with my question?
OOM: Why is MDG’s original comment hard for you to accept? In the thousands of years of the history of war and mankind, armies have won and lost their greatest battles without women. Women are not suited for combat. Bringing women into an army does not strengthen an army.
Why else, do you propose, has tzahal always been on the forefront of contemporary armies in placing women in combat?
Joseph: What does your comment have to do with my question, or MDG’s comment?
I am starting to feel like we are playing broken telephone here…
OOM: Clarify you original point, please.
613,
No, that’s not what I’m saying.
Joseph: Clarify what was unclear about it.
I thought my comment addressed your point, but you now indicate otherwise. What was your point?
My point was that MDG sounded like a wacked-out conspiracy nut. I thought that was quite clear.
What exactly was your point?
OOM
Who is Joseph here?
sushee/sushe
But since you ask…hm…on this thread, Loyal Jew and The Litvishe Kiryas Yoelite. (And sushee/sushe.)
sushee- just because in the past women have not faught in wars,why should that change anything now? in the past thousands of years women and girls got by without a proper education by any means and yet we are almost at a 100 year mark of Bais yaakov and relizing what a mistake it was for girls not to have learned previsoulsly. Besides who says that women are not good for combat and that they dont help?
ym613: Society, including women, was far better off before the shas hadchak that required the beis yaakov system. Women in combat is a terrible problem on so many levels, tznius being the foremost in addition to the points I earlier made about it.
sushee-why do you think that soceity was better before women where treated equally? besides without bais yaakovs how do you expect for all these young girls being able to work so their husbnands can learn in kollel all their lives( girls can only work in certain places if they know the halochos wich they learn in school!) and what problems exactly may that be for tznius please tell me?
Torah613- in what way do you think women are distracting to men? and you are being very sexiest right now,you can say majority of women do have less body mass then men but there are many women out their that are stronger and can fight much better then certain men
torah613-edited. We aren’t discussing that. But, you are incorrect, as a quick google search would prove
yes your right there are on occasion young boys taller then women,but they also are not necassirly stronger or better built,and women do mature faster then men adn are able to handle things of war better.
DaasYochid, no, I could not come up with a better analogy. Regardless of how commendable some of the people who serve in the IDF are, they are part of an organization that is anti-Torah which is, in turn, a part of a State that is anti-Torah. So I thought my analogy was actually pretty charitable.
Regardless, as you mentioned at the end of your post, it doesn’t matter what you might think your reason is for wearing a sweatshirt or anything else.
If the garment carries with it a popular connotation then by wearing that garment you will convey that connotation even if you’re doing so because it’s “stylish” or comfortable or you like the color or for any other reason.
Wearing an IDF sweatshirt necessarily implies endorsement of the IDF and, also by extension, the State of Israel. This is, therefore, inappropriate, on many levels, as mentioned earlier.
im so glad that you are checking with google for accuracy but its a pity that you trust the internet over frum people. I have very good friends with family in tzahal currently and i have seen how they dress and i will tell you its as frum as any bais yaakov girl. everyone has a choice when getting dressed how and what to wear and in the army the also have a choice,im sorry you think i was misinformed
torah613- im not saying i have a tivah to join the army,because i dont. I am trying to defend those i know who do,theres nothing wrong with it and theres nothing wrong with women showing their eqaulity to men and theres nothign wrong with wearing tzahal sweatshirts,supporting tzahal
what i said was that women have every right as men do in the army,they should be given the same oppurtunity and cahnces,
and that is totally fine with me, i find it hard to believe that their are still people like you who dont believe in giving men and women equal chances
So have it with me. ^_^
What does “equality” mean?
equality means that people,male and female,are given the same chances and treated the same way. Such as men and women are equaly strong sometimes opposed to how some people veiw that men are always strong and women are weak
lol I meant torah613613torah. I think I (mostly) agree with you.
Men and women are not equal. Women should not get an aliya and men should not tzind lecht Erev Shabbos.
torah613613torah:
Equality is giving people equal opportunities with consideration of biological realities.
I entirely agree. And I think yiddeshemeidle613 agrees with you too. No one thinks that women who are unfit for battle should be sent out into war zones. In fact, I don’t really think that most women would serve much use in a war at all (at least in hand-to-hand combat). The point is that that does not logically impute that there are none who can, and therefore cannot serve as a basis for banning all from combat.
My view, basically, is that equal opportunity be bestowed, and care be taken that it be truly “equal,” and not merely intended to pump the number of females for good PR. Any female with the correct motivations (and self-respect – any true feminist would be loathe to respond to such pandering) would probably pass muster and be worthy.
Joseph: Please join only to add something relevant to the subject at hand.
OneOfMany, whatever you think I can’t stand in for your legendary “Joseph” but all commenters should “add something relevant to the subject at hand.” Here is something relevant about wearing IDF sweatshirts. As we sit here, that Cantonist organization is preparing to chap 3000 Jewish boys and some of us think it’s OK to wear its sweatshirt. That says all that needs to be said about “equal opportunity.”
Okay, I’ll go for irrelevant: I don’t particularly approve of wearing IDF sweatshirts. Did I say something that made you think that?
It should be worn as a “schmatte” – for cleaning the house, taking out the garbage, shopping in a dirty outdoor market, painting, arts and crafts, messy cooking etc. It can also be worn on Peerim, if your legs are slim enough to fit in its arms and you wear something equally absurd but tznius over it.
Loyal Jew, your warped and extreme comments betray your true id. Yoe are –Joseph.
As we sit here, that Cantonist organization is preparing to chap 3000 Jewish boys and some of us think it’s OK to wear its sweatshirt.
Imagine, if 3 thousand boys went in, perhaps 3 thousand girls would not have to go in.
“Imagine, if 3 thousand boys went in, perhaps 3 thousand girls would not have to go in.”
Imagine how many of those boys would, CH”V, experience tremendous nisyonos and yeridos in their avodas Hashem.
And all for no reason other than that the Zionists want to shmad them just as they’ve always done.
torah613: We were talking about the concept of equality. The practicality of incorporation does not factor into the concept. And while the religious implications are definitely a sticky wicket in and of themselves, they are still irrelevant to what we were discussing.
Wearing a Yankee sweatshirt is yarog v’al yaavor in Boston.
And in response to shiratobala on page 1, men have a mitzvah of tznius too.
torah613: Hm, I was actually trying to talk about equality in general, using the army only as an example. But okay.
I do not believe the moral imperative to treat people equally is mitigated by how hard it is to do so. Additionally, any inconvenience can simply be a backlash from being in an unjust state of inequality. So I can’t agree with you at all on that. …but I can’t really refute it, either.
And what do disabled men have to do with this? If they are unfit for duty, they are discharged. If a woman is unfit for duty, she is not given a commission.
If you admittedly cannot refute torah613’s point, you ought to concede it.
Additionally, the religious aspects are indeed part and parcel and very relevant to the discussion.
Joseph: If I cannot definitively prove that there is a God, ought I concede that there isn’t?
I think we defined equality as relates to this discussion as “equal opportunity, with consideration of biological realities”? According to this definition, your sentence should read: Every man, no matter how fit, should be permitted to apply to serve in the army if they wish to.
I’m wearing my Tzahal sweatshirt. ^_^
This was a fun thread.
I am not b’davka for or against them. Joe seemed to think I was defending wearing them from an ideological standpoint, and I was trying to tell him that I wasn’t. I do own one and have no problem wearing it, but would not wear it in public as a statement because I have no statement to make.
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