Pearl - May 27, 2025


Why Are We Allowing Women To Do THIS？!


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4 minutes

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165.53542

Word count

691

Sentence count

1

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Misogyny

7

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Hate speech

2

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Marine Corps experiment that will help determine the future of women in combat. The study compared men and women fighting side-by-side. The final report released yesterday says men performed significantly better and got hurt less often.

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00:00:00.000 academia always comes after common sense by like 20 years you could have asked any husband
00:00:07.100 who talks more you or your wife and he would have given you the answer there's a study that
00:00:13.340 came out that pointed out the obvious um that women are at a disadvantage in combat i don't 1.00
00:00:19.620 know why we needed to study to tell you that i could have just went to any gym and figured that
00:00:24.480 out but hey a kind marine corps experiment that will help determine the future of women in combat
00:00:30.940 the study compared men and women fighting side by side the final report released yesterday says men
00:00:36.600 performed significantly better and got hurt less often jan crawford is in washington with the story
00:00:42.000 jan good morning well good morning you know we spent several days in the california desert back in march
00:00:46.900 watching this experiment talking to the men and women who volunteered and now the results are in
00:00:51.560 and for those arguing that women should be able to perform all the same combat jobs as the men 0.58
00:00:56.880 the news is discouraging
00:00:58.860 it was as close to war as you could get
00:01:04.600 an unprecedented scientific study men and women enlisted marines side by side for months of
00:01:14.140 simulated battle six and throughout researchers watched and recorded their performance to help
00:01:20.260 determine what impact women would have on combat even then the women realized they were at a 0.91
00:01:26.540 disadvantage what we discovered water is wet the sky is blue women can't do what men can do 1.00
00:01:35.060 it's not that we can't carry the weight we can carry the weight but
00:01:37.860 it's the pace especially when we're matching up with the males you're looking at our size and we have
00:01:44.720 males that are almost six foot with longer strides and it's hard to catch up with i like how she's saying 0.99
00:01:51.180 it's the strides and not the strength i'm six foot i can't do anything against a six foot guy
00:01:57.980 keep up with them that is what the results show in almost every area the all-male units performed 0.94
00:02:05.700 significantly better than those with both men and women marines the men were faster in each tactical
00:02:12.740 movement had better accuracy and were quicker they registered more hits on target and had a noticeable
00:02:19.080 difference in their performance of overcoming obstacles and evacuating casualties the marines
00:02:25.340 commissioned the study after then defense secretary leon panetta in 2013 ordered the military to open
00:02:31.340 all combat jobs to women we must open up service opportunities for women as fully as possible most 0.95
00:02:40.700 branches are ready to comply just last month two women passed the army's toughest test to become army
00:02:47.580 rangers we can handle things physically and mentally on the same level as men and that we can deal with the
00:02:54.140 same stresses and training that the men can the women rangers said the standards should not be lowered
00:02:59.740 women marines we talked to agreed they told us a few would want these jobs but if there is just one 1.00
00:03:05.420 who can do it she should get the chance it takes a special person a special drive a special mindset a
00:03:11.660 special heart to do this there's not many of us and it goes the same way for the men now the marines
00:03:19.020 will make a decision sometime this fall and whether they will seek an exception that would allow them
00:03:23.580 to keep units like the infantry all men nora be interesting to watch as this moves forward i think
00:03:29.740 she said it best special mindset and heart regardless men are women it's tough i agree jan thanks again we
00:03:35.580 have the yeah do you know it's crazy there is a study that came out that said women speak like 10 000 0.99
00:03:43.980 words more a day than men and it's like academia always comes after common sense by like 20 years
00:03:54.620 you could have asked any husband who talks more you or your wife and he would have given you the answer
00:04:01.100 right but um you know it's it's they put out these studies to tell us the sky is blue water is wet