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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 1926044" data-attributes="member: 27012">Babylon 5, a show that had women not only as fighter pilots but also as ground combat forces, had a quote by Ivanova (no less) concerning the death of "women and children", too.  I think our society is still a bit schizophrenic (in the non-clinical, multiple-personality sense) about women in combat, as illustrated by the whole Jessica Lynch situation in Iraq.  On the one hand, society wants to say "You go girl!" and let women do whatever men do.  On the other hand, society winces at the though of women actually getting blown away or molested by enemy troops in combat.  There was a low-budget 1986 movie called Opposing Force that fairly fully and brutally deals with this problem.</blockquote>