I signed up to serve my country at 18. @TuckerCarlson did not.
I served with women who risked their lives to protect our country. Tucker did not.
While he denigrates those who serve, our military remains the best fighting force due, in large part, to our amazing servicewomen.
— Rep. Mikie Sherrill (@RepSherrill) March 11, 2021
FOX News commentator Tucker Carlson triggered a lot of people yesterday with a screed objecting to women in the military.
Ho-hum. So far as I’m concerned, any woman who meets the physical and mental standards for a particular job, and wants that job, ought to be eligible for it.
What is interesting to me about Carlson’s original remarks, and the indignant howling about Carlson’s remarks, is that nobody has mentioned a female distinctive that is vital to post-war reconstruction: Woman can bear children.
This is not a small matter or consideration. It probably figures into the Biblical injunction against homosexuality, written at a time when people lived in tribes and population replenishment was vital to the survival of the tribe. And the post-World War II population growth was much slower in the occupied nations — thanks to the relative decline in men and women — than in the United States.
It certainly isn’t so important a consideration today as it once was, when there is a relatively large population — but it undoubtedly is a factor in the historic injunction against women bearing arms.