The legend goes that Israel removed women from combat because a group of them were captured and horribly mistreated - or that Arabs would 'fight to the death' to avoid being captured by women.

Linda Grant DePauw, Linda Bird Francke and several studies. So let's look at the asinine things they say and then look at the facts.with a little help from authors like Major General Jeanne Holm, Dr. If I published the ludicrous e-mails rants I get - fortunately very few - from these people you'd readily see that these folks are of the mentality who think that Star Wars is filmed on location in space. Too often the arguments against women in the military proffered by everything from PBS right-wing specious programming to antiquated military macho blocked brains are fraught with absolutely nothing more than rumor and fractured facts. We used to call them 'latrine rumors' but sadly they are far worse and are being perpetuated by wanna-be celebrities and righteous newstwisters. Just as 'urban legends' abound on the Internet, so do fatuous stories about women in the military circulate in the media and on-line.

Myths, Fallacies, Falderol and Idiotic Rumors about Military Women

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