I always thought you could only build one of these per mission...
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Ziggy Stardust
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The Great Head.
I wonder if the Chinese have a formation of ugly women too.
They do, but they're driving the tanks.
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Man, when I become the King of Cascadia, I'm gonna have an elite unit of warrior women called the Cascadian Valkyries who are constantly scorned!
The international community is gonna condemn me for possessing a force of Mass Destruction!
The international community is gonna condemn me for possessing a force of Mass Destruction!
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
Well, Asians do have considerably less genetic diversity than Europeans, and fewer mitochondrial DNA differences indicate they are much more closely related to each other. Native Americans have the smallest gene pool, and Africans the largest with. Genetic diversity arguments can't excuse why many whites also think all blacks look alike.
Of course, those of European descent do have the widest range of hair and iris colors, which are among the easiest way to tell people apart.
Familiarity likely plays a large role too. When you grow up around people who look very similar, you are more likely to notice the subtle differences that do distinguish them. I recall that in my first couple years of elementary school I had trouble telling black students apart (I could of course tell the tallest and shortest of them in my class apart, despite their skin color and the fact that their names were only 1 letter apart), but my middle school that difficulty was gone. I've never really had much trouble telling Asian individuals apart ( perhaps because there were 2 Asian families on my street with kids about my age when I was little), certainly not those I've personally met, but distinguishing Chinese from Vietnamese seems impossible.
Among the Asians though China probably has the most diversity though. It is much easier to distinguish among Chinese from different regions than between Chinese and their neighbors, at least for me. Southern Chines are notably darker, and there is even one region of China where blue/grey eyes and even blond/red hair aren't all that rare (although certainly not common). (There is some evidence that these people may be descended from Indo Europeans. I think genetic tests on the Caucasian mummies found in Xianjian showed them as most closely related to Bulgarians, but living in China with an Indian derived culture including Hindu dress, probably the Buddhist religion, and marijuana use.)
i'm sure i read somewhere that people of a different ethnic group look more alike to ppl outside that ethnicity so for example to a white person, black people would look more alike than they would to other black people and white people would look more alike in the eyes of black people
Ecofarm
Deity
When female units wear different uniforms than men - especially heels during parades, it's nothing more than sexist.
Nobody takes a trooper in a skirt and heels seriously; these women are being abused. I'm surprised they don't have poles for them to dance on during the parade route... maybe some nice lazyboy recliners for lap dances. They should at least serve some drinks along the way.
I hope they made some good tips that day.
I don't respect them as fellow soldiers one bit; they're dressed like circus clowns.
Nobody takes a trooper in a skirt and heels seriously; these women are being abused. I'm surprised they don't have poles for them to dance on during the parade route... maybe some nice lazyboy recliners for lap dances. They should at least serve some drinks along the way.
I hope they made some good tips that day.
I don't respect them as fellow soldiers one bit; they're dressed like circus clowns.
You know, the U.S. military has different Dress Uniforms for men and women too. The female version even has a skirt and heels. Dress uniforms aren't exactly meant for combat, but rather to look pretty, and I'd say looking pretty trumps combat utility in a parade.
Nylan
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No parade formation is taken seriously, full stop.
Ecofarm
Deity
They are not real soldiers. Anyone can see that by their absurd uniforms (skirts and white jack-boots with heels). They are probably the whores for the army.
ParadigmShifter
Random Nonsense Generator
How feminist of you.
Nylan
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Did you not read the thread? There's clearly no need to be all "I'm a soldier and feel superior to these women!" about it.
Ecofarm
Deity
I'm proving a point. Sorry you don't get it.
If you want to put women in military parades (which I have nothing against) then give them real uniforms. Don't turn them into the army's version of Hooters. It's sexist, it's abusive towards women, and it undermines their legitimacy. Those women are clowns, not soldiers... by the looks of it.
If you want to put women in military parades (which I have nothing against) then give them real uniforms. Don't turn them into the army's version of Hooters. It's sexist, it's abusive towards women, and it undermines their legitimacy. Those women are clowns, not soldiers... by the looks of it.
You still haven't responded to the fact that U.S. military women wear skirts and heels as a part of their dress uniforms too. Are they whores for the American army too?
Nylan
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Have you never been to an Officer's Club or Collocated Club? If your issue is with dress uniforms, then all parade uniforms must go because they are not useful for combat or otherwise of military function.
If your issue is with skirts in general, then I'd say you're the sexist one.
Ecofarm
Deity
We're talking about a parade and the image that is put forth by clowning the women in uniform.
I don't give a crap if it is done elsewhere, that does not change how wrong THIS is.
As far as I'm concerned, it's wrong there too... but let's not get off-topic.
These women are obviously not supposed to be taken as real soldiers. If they were, they'd have real uniforms.
I don't give a crap if it is done elsewhere, that does not change how wrong THIS is.
As far as I'm concerned, it's wrong there too... but let's not get off-topic.
These women are obviously not supposed to be taken as real soldiers. If they were, they'd have real uniforms.
