Sexism you have personally experienced or have heard of? *READ POST 1*

Again how by your logic is it a good thing? I mean your logic of even if they've been certified as unfit?

Honestly, it would seem to be fairly obvious to me that, in any walk of life, things work out better with a balance of genders. But I know SFA about running defence forces, so I can't say anything sensible about that. Here's some people who do know a bit about running defence forces;

The Defence Forces chief of staff has said it is vital that organisations promote gender equality and cultural, ethnic, religious and generational difference to deal with increasing global complexity.

Organisations that nurture difference and allow for mistakes as a form of learning will improve resilience as an "antidote" to complexity, Vice-Admiral Mark Mellett has said.
achieving greater gender balance is a societal issue and that “improvement” in this balance at all levels “facilitates better decision-making and creative processes”.

All-women teams that worked alongside special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan were able to build relationships in local communities that men never could, often yielding mission-critical intelligence

I'm not sure what exactly you're asking, but maybe you'd like to direct your questions to the Chief of Staff?

Interesting to see how it's now also mens fault that female Olympic boxes can't fight each other.

Happened to see this today where someone had called for abolition of women’s prisons. Different people will have different opinions on what punishments offenders should face but the issue is the different treatment male and female offenders face, and want people to face in the future, for the same crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/article/2024/aug/04/me-we-need-more-funding-and-more-research

Abolish all prisons

I appreciated Eva Wiseman’s column about the urgent need for prison abolition for the roughly 3,600 women in prison in the UK (“Women’s prisons have served their time. They should be abolished”).

However, I did wonder why she stopped short of calling for the abolition of men’s prisons. Although there are more violent offenders in men’s prisons than in women’s, the majority of men are there for non-violent offences. There were 92 suicides in prisons in the UK in the year to September 2023, of which 91 were men. This makes the suicide rate in men’s prisons nearly four times higher than men in the general population. Men are also cut off from their children, and children from their fathers. Only 38% of men were offered a phone call to their family on their first night in prison, compared with 73% of women.

During my medical training, I shadowed the healthcare teams in women’s and men’s prisons. I was shocked by the terrible living conditions, very high rates of mental ill health and pervasive violence and substance misuse. Women and men in prison deserve comfort, safety and the opportunity to build a better life. Let’s end prisons and build better systems for all.
Dr Charlie Wilkinson
Hotwells, Bristol