“The reaction there to recent news that Games Workshop have introduced female characters, including shock horror a female soldier has led fully grown manbabies to fits of outrage on the internet at the sheer audacity that a fictional universe set 40,000 years in the future, which has chaotic gods, giant alien spaceships, and teleporting necromantic androids can possibly even contemplate the idea that a woman could be a soldier. “
This.
But I’ve also had some women tell me that I can’t be a bodyguard, it swings both ways from my experience
>The reaction there to recent news that Games Workshop have introduced female characters
There have been female characters in GW stuff since 2000 when the book Necropolis introduced female soldiers to the Tanith 1st.
There are probably earlier sources, that’s just the most prominent one I’ve personally read.
From experience, there’s one group who routinely seem to be the most vocal against women/ethnic minorities/any positive change in the culture of defence. They tend to be individuals who served for a couple of years in their late teens or early 20s, are now 60+ and still hinge their entire personality around the fact they’re a ‘veteran’.
They view any change to the armed forces as negative because it’s different to the warped memory they have of their brief time served.
Nothing worse than finding yourself seated next to one at a formal military function and having to steer the conversation away from bigotry all night.
It’s a long one but how much gravitas do we actually need to put into a random blogspot post?
40K has had female characters since at least 1997, was anyone genuinely outraged about Ursula Creed? I’ve only seen a positive reception so far.
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Equal opportunities doesn’t mean everyone is equal. If you pass the requirements and testing for certain roles, no one should question you.
Some women can’t meet the minimum requirements for certain roles, for example ‘rucking’ 100kg for 30 miles isn’t something many women find doable, but then again neither do plenty of men.
It’s the dumbest debate ever. They’re called “guardsmen”. Just drop the “men”. It’s not difficult.
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“The reaction there to recent news that Games Workshop have introduced female characters, including shock horror a female soldier has led fully grown manbabies to fits of outrage on the internet at the sheer audacity that a fictional universe set 40,000 years in the future, which has chaotic gods, giant alien spaceships, and teleporting necromantic androids can possibly even contemplate the idea that a woman could be a soldier. “
This.
But I’ve also had some women tell me that I can’t be a bodyguard, it swings both ways from my experience
>The reaction there to recent news that Games Workshop have introduced female characters
There have been female characters in GW stuff since 2000 when the book Necropolis introduced female soldiers to the Tanith 1st.
There are probably earlier sources, that’s just the most prominent one I’ve personally read.
From experience, there’s one group who routinely seem to be the most vocal against women/ethnic minorities/any positive change in the culture of defence. They tend to be individuals who served for a couple of years in their late teens or early 20s, are now 60+ and still hinge their entire personality around the fact they’re a ‘veteran’.
They view any change to the armed forces as negative because it’s different to the warped memory they have of their brief time served.
Nothing worse than finding yourself seated next to one at a formal military function and having to steer the conversation away from bigotry all night.
It’s a long one but how much gravitas do we actually need to put into a random blogspot post?
40K has had female characters since at least 1997, was anyone genuinely outraged about Ursula Creed? I’ve only seen a positive reception so far.
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Equal opportunities doesn’t mean everyone is equal. If you pass the requirements and testing for certain roles, no one should question you.
Some women can’t meet the minimum requirements for certain roles, for example ‘rucking’ 100kg for 30 miles isn’t something many women find doable, but then again neither do plenty of men.
It’s the dumbest debate ever. They’re called “guardsmen”. Just drop the “men”. It’s not difficult.