Marine Corps group under fire for honoring essay that advocates infantry ban for women

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Marine Corps group under fire for honoring essay that advocates infantry ban for women
Scott Kaufman
14 Sep 2014

The Marine Corps Association is coming under fire for giving its top essay award to an argument in favor of banning women from serving in the infantry, War Is Boring reports.

The winner of the Marine Corps Association’s 2013 Major General Harold W. Chase writing contest was Captain Lauren Serrano, for an essay entitled, “Why Women Do Not Belong in the U.S. Infantry,” in which she argued that women have no place there because it’s a boys’ club where “men…raging with hormones…and easily distracted by women and sex…fart, burp, tell raunchy jokes, walk around naked, swap sex stories, wrestle and simply be young men together.”

Such an environment, Capt. Serrano argued, “promotes unit cohesion,” and thereby serves a vital function “in both garrison and combat environments.” She then claimed that the only forces that readily include women are those in countries engaged in an existential struggle for survival — like the Kurdish Peshmerga or the Israeli Defense Force.

The award is supposed to recognize “articles that challenge conventional wisdom by proposing change to a current Marine Corps directive, policy, custom or practice,” and authors “must have strength in their convictions and be prepared for criticism from those who would defend the status quo.”

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