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and bicker.

You still haven’t thanked me and aelfheld and Megaera and Muldoon for our flawlessly helpful medical advice.

There is also the obvious problem that women simply cannot go into combat with a 60lb pack and also cannot pick up a wounded comrade to save them.

American liberals continue to have trouble admitting, much less accepting, this truth.

Military: there is a conceit that on a navy ship women are ok, but in actual combat every single person must do arduous tasks–load shells, carry and deploy fire hoses, carry the wounded.

Feminists have told me that carrying the wounded is no problem: First, women are not weaker than men. Second, even if they are weaker they can just have two women lift one wounded or four carry a stretcher normally handled by two. It proved futile to point out that (1) Women really are weaker. (2) In combat there are not “extra” soldiers available to double up on tasks normally performed by one man. (3) Onboard ships, corridors are narrow and stairs (companionways) are steep, making it impossible for more than two sailors to carry a stretcher. (3) And so on.

The same arguments were used with regard to firemen: If women are too weak to do a fireman’s carry, then they can drag the fire victim to safety, or two can carry the victim. And then there is the raw upper body strength needed to perform firemen’s jobs. I have read that, with the mandatory relaxation of hiring standards, many fire departments now have women in their crews who cannot be relied upon for anything more strenuous than operating radios and speaking to people.

I eventually concluded that feminism was a “luxury” which, in the long term, no civilization could afford to support.

recruits deemed sufficiently “diverse” no longer need to be able to read chemical labels and safety instructions.

It’s as if these bien pensants think police officers and firemen and soldiers don’t need any brains to do their jobs.

It’s a mystery why this should be.

I’ll be taking a break for a few days

So how are you and the significant other feeling today? Better?

Wooly-headed is not conducive to the compilation of Friday Ephemera, much less more in-depth posts.
Take care of yourself (and your significant other).

[…] firefighters don’t do very much actual firefighting any more and spend a lot of time earning very large union paychecks to do “education and outreach”.

This ‘education and outreach’ involves a lot of big trucks and sirens at odd hours if the fire station across the street is any indication.

In my experience, fire departments do spend a lot of time doing on-site fire code inspections and reviewing records of inspections done by third parties.

Every building in our city, with the exception of single family homes, is subject to multiple annual inspections–general fire code, fire alarm system testing, sprinkler system testing, backflow, elevators. And every 4 years more rigorous testing of the sprinkler system must be done, including the fire department hookup and hose connections on each floor. Heating system boilers every 4 years, I think. Some of these inspections are done by the fire department, while other tests are done by trusted third parties.

I’d prefer all this work to be done by experienced men who thoroughly understand the technology and what is important vs what is not, rather than by diversity hires.