And the march of Eloi-dom continues on. I’m certain the Swedes’ new gender-feminist military machine will every bit as effective against the armies of a renewed Caliphate as its ancestor was against the Nazis.

You have to remember that when liberals talk about gender equality they really mean an “equal freedom from the fact of sex”. As I pointed out in an article for Conservative Central http://www.ozconservative.com/womencombat2.htm the logic of this is that women will one day be conscripted to fight in time of war (whether the average woman wants this to happen or not).

Mr. Richardson’s comment brings to mind what occured when the ERA originally went to the floor of the Senate. Sen. Sam Ervin proposed 9 separate clauses as amendments. These included:

—Except it won’t require us to draft women.
—Except it won’t require us to send our young women into military combat.
—Except it won’t take away the rights of working women.
—Except it won’t take away the rights of wives, mother’s, and widows.
—Except it won’t interfere with laws which are based on physiological differences.

Every one of these proposed clauses was defeated.

Sweden can afford this; it’s surrounded by those ferocious aggressors Norway and Finland, and narrow straits protect it from that other ferocious Great Power Denmark.

Once upon a time, Israel used women in combat. When reality intruded upon its egalitarian prejudices, it changed its rules to keep women soldiers behind the front lines. Israeli women are still obliged to do national service, because that tiny country needs all its possible personnel to help it defend itself. Sweden’s reason is pure ideology.