I heard today that for the first time in history, women would soon be allowed to serve on submarines.

I think its a great idea, I mean they just seem to fit in well around a bunch of seamen :excited:

 

The joke about "What is long, tubular in shape and full of seamen?", will no longer be true. Except some of the seapersons might occasionally be full of seamen.

 

I'm all for feeding women into the meatgrinder in equal proportion to men...

... but I wonder if this is actually "physically possible."

I heard this on the news the other night and I was wondering the mechanics of a woman on a submarine. Like, I assume - they're going to require separate bunking and separate facilities. A submarine isn't an aircraft carrier, though. I don't know if a submarine is designed with the extra room to accommodate separate facilities for gender.

Obviously, we could build future submarines with this in mind - but wouldn't that require sub captains to fill a quota where half the crew is women and half the crew is men (as per the facilities on the sub). If the Navy can't find an equal number of women that want to serve on a sub - would this hamper our ability to field subs?

And what happens in the mean-time? If a sub captain has three seawomen on board on his next trip - does he have setup schedules and shit for using the facilities? Like women shower time is 6:15-6:30, etc? Do they have to put up screens around the bunks, etc?

 

"Hot racking" may take on a whole new meaning.

 

ZING!

I was totally waiting for someone to make this joke.

 

They'll have to provide sanitary disposal and extra chocolate rations for those times of the month

 

Id gladly give up my chocolate rations to those women in need..:excited:

 

If you're worried about the limitations on bathroom and sleeping arrangements, why not just have a certain number of all-woman crews?

For myself, though, I would have no problem bunking with the men. I have confidence in my ability to deal with situations like that. The question is, would THEY survive.

 

There's still the transition period. We don't currently have the officer corps to support an all-female submarine crew and we probably won't for 5-10 years. And, the way the news described the Navy's action, sounded to me as if crews would be co-ed.

I probably shouldn't have doubted the "impossibility", I just don't think folks should skip past this story as "yet another brick outta da wall." I think the Navy is doing something that requires tremendous, extraordinary effort in the name of gender equality and I think that effort should be recognized.

Wow! Great mental image involving K, 59 18-year-olds and a sealed tin can!

 

You bring SO MUCH to every discussion you participate in, bro.

This would be an interesting scientific case study, though...

 

No worse than a crew of men all suffering from testosterone poisoning.

 

Fifty-nine? *smiling, counting on my fingers*

 

The solution is obviously 50-50, the females knocked up and the guys satisfied. No more hormonal problems.

 

Good God! How many fingers...??? You weren't raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania were you?

 

Did you ever read that article about the woman who started her own all-women company?

Fucking disaster.

 

If you were referring to Heidi Fleiss, it was only a disaster when she got busted.

 

I have no idea who that is.

No, this was a woman who worked in television and advertising, I believe, and got so fed up with the glass ceiling and what-not that she started her own company of hand-picked women, to do a better job than the men.

Within a few years, it folded. The women were simply unable to work together in a professional atmosphere. The lack of men to placate the estrogen ran the venture into the ground.

 

Despite my rather conservative views on some things, Heidi and Co was a needless tragedy. Prostitution should be legal, taxed and regulated.

What an adult wants to do with his or her own body, as long as it does not directly harm another, it their own business. (and yes, I apply this to homosexual civil unions and drugs as well)

OTOH, you must take responsibility for your actions, with no BS excuses (on the drugs mainly). You OD, too bad.

Women in subs? (or in combat units?) OK by me, with one major caveat: There is only 1 set of performance standards. No separate male/female PT standards, no separate strength standards, etc.

 

I assume that's a theory on your part. One that I'll bet you can't substantiate.

But I'll bet I CAN find quite a few businesses owned and staffed largely by men that have failed.