Attention! I Stand Corrected... a little

[eumelia]

Robbie brought to my attention that fact that I let hagar_972 get the last word on this post, thus making her the winner of the argument.
Thinking about this further (since I dislike being shown up and made to rethink my positions), I've come to realize that yes, in that argument, hagar_972 did stump me, because her points were correct and presented in a way that really brooked no argument.
It's also due to the fact that on the actual points she and I really do agree, in the majority of the Army “gender is not an issue and differential treatment is nonexistent or frowned upon.” (quoted from this comment), because the a huge, massive and indeed major part of our Army is not the combat soldiers, but us guys who provide everything else for the Combatants.
I had an exceptional service, where I felt I really contributed and was proud to serve my country (this lessened with time, as it often happens when you're disgruntled with who you are and find yourself afraid of the real world because you've been cloistered in the “comfortable” conformity of the military for two years... though that could just be me).
But our unit and other “egalitarian” units are special and despite, as mentioned, “gender is not an issue”, that isn't true in the strictest sense.
hagar_972 is right, I did exaggerate in the aforementioned post, but in a company (and the Army is an economic entity and company) where the higher you go, the more men you get, then they're standing on a glass ceiling. Are there women in the higher ranks, sure, but how did they get there “They were bitches” or a rumor I heard about the Army Spokesperson, who is if I'm not mistaken, the highest ranking woman currently serving in the Army, I heard her called a real Working Girl and yes it was said in English in a Hebrew conversation.
Bitch and Whore, what every strong woman in the world is called when she shows power over men.
And hagar_972 replies: “Only proves that women are, on average, smarter than men, if you ask me ;) to the fact that there are more male officers than female, yes it does, it proves that they, the women, know that there is no long term future in the Army, unlike the men, who can go on until they retire in the Army.
It smacks of corporate sexism and it goes on beyond the Army into other walks of life.

That's what I wanted to say and to thank hagar_972 for bringing me down a notch.
Thanks m'dear :)

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PS.Thanks for deleting that thread.:)