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Having been driven away from sports radio long ago, the first I'd heard of Cowherd was last week when he insulted the city of Cincinnati for producing what he thinks is a disproportionate number of idiots, and it made the papers here. Even if that didn't happen to be the town I live in, it would still be an amazingly stupid thing to say on the air. (As though Cincinnati isn't a market for his show? As though Connecticut, where he lives, is any different?) And now he's attacking blogs. What a moron. And what a pathetic look at what's become of talk radio.
... and so is Parker. The physical differences between men and women on a gender-wide basis don't matter, because the military is perfectly capable of determining how capable each individual solder, man or woman, is. Surely some women are more physically capable than some men, and there are no reasons to keep them from combat positions they're qualified for just because of that sweeping generalization, and no male soldier (unless he's plain sexist) is going to resent that woman's presence. I don't know whether the milltary is actually gender-blind in this respect, but it should be, and it would make the gender-based claims irrelevant. And furthermore, the military should be good at finding front-line positions for less physically capable men and woman that don't require the highest level of strength and fitness, anyway.
