ilikeverin
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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2010, 06:42:37 PM » |
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States, you're not making a valid comparison. We segregate women from men because the sense is that basically "if you have women and men in close quarters with each other at all time, you're bound to lead to romantic entanglements" (i.e., you're asking for it). Since it's the general consensus that romantic entanglements are a bad thing to have as a soldier (with your fellow soldiers, at least), we segregate by gender.
Splitting gay troops off into their own special units is bad for many, many reasons, but the one that makes your comparison futile is that gay men/lesbians presumably would want to get into romantic entanglements with other gay men/lesbians, and so putting gay men/lesbians in their own units would mean that, well, you're asking for it again. I'm not saying that you're "asking for it" any more than you would be among gender-neutral units, but you're doing just the opposite of what's intended by gender separation.
The "ideal situation", if you only took this factor into account (very! important! caveat!), would be to have straight male units, straight female units, and units that somehow segregated into pairs of exactly one gay man and one lesbian woman, and that would be hard (not to mention the other five hundred million reasons why it would be bad idea, discriminatory, etc. etc.).
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