Bryan Fischer, the spokesman for the homophobic American Family Association, is not happy about women being allowed in combat. His justifications for his attitudes are essentially the same as those that were used to defend discrimination against gays in the military, the now revoked “Don’t ask, don’t tell”. As it turns out, Fischer doesn’t just want women out of combat situations; he wants them out of the military altogether.
I just think having women in uniform is just a bad idea and here we are seeing one of the reasons. You have got subordinates serving powerful supervisors, you’ve got predatory women, it’s just a recipe for complete sexual meltdown and that’s why we are seeing General Petraeus being a key example of that.
As it turns out in the case of hypocrite Petraeus was not an affair arising between an officer and a subordinate, it was an affair between a man in a position of power and his biographer. If Fischer’s argument were a valid one, it would mean that women should be out of the workforce altogether. Which is precisely the argument the Taliban used to keep women at home.
Misogyny, thy name is fundamentalist religion.
