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>Those rationales apply less and less as military technology evolves. There is no obvious reason why fighter pilots should only be men, or Navy gunners, or army helicopter pilots.

so a war broke out and half of your fighter pilots got pregnant and can't fight anymore.

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That is only a slightly less stupid argument for why women can't fight than the "women get irrational for several days every month" argument.

If you're worried about them getting pregnant, provide access to contraceptives. This is only a problem in the minds of people grasping at every possible straw to prove women can't do something they've successfully been doing at scale for decades.

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