Because in reality, water is wet, the earth is round, and males and females are not interchangeable, the progressive Left must eliminate any means of assessment that exposes the truth ~

Pressure grows on Marines to consider lowering combat standards for women ~

Two years ago, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the nation’s top military officer, laid down an edict on the Obama administration’s plan to open direct land combat jobs to women: If women cannot meet a standard, senior commanders better have a good reason why it should not be lowered. 😯

 
Are we to just ignore the reason for the standards in the first place? Progressives always want change (“Forward!”). Why don’t they ever have to justify the reasons for their “change?”
 
The status quo – military or otherwise – wasn’t arrived at arbitrarily. Common sense, and millennia of collective human experience, all lead us to conclude that males are infinitely better suited for combat than women.
 
 
Leftists should be the ones to “have a good reason” why that tradition should suddenly be changed – and how the change will benefit national defense. Instead ~

“The pressure is on the services from the White House’s politically correct crowd vis-a-vis Obama’s Pentagon appointees, who will force the services to accept degraded standards,” said Robert Maginnis, a retired Army officer and author of the book “Deadly Consequences: How Cowards Are Pushing Women Into Combat.”

Numerous studies have yet to provide any evidence that women in combat would be anything but detrimental to military readiness. Undaunted, the left will forge ahead. “Progress” must trump reality.
 

Somewhere George Orwell is shaking his head in disgust.