Good movie but managed to make completely the opposite point

I would like to agree with your point, but I can't. This is clearly a matter of how soldiers regard themselves - as men and women or simply soldiers, which is a question of attitude adjustments. That might take a while, especially for gender-segregated countries (as the US is) but I think it is impotant to ask the question:

Why would it be worse if a prisoner was raped than water-boarded, electrocuted or subjected to some other kind of torture? Technically, a normal rape doesn't cause a lot of physical damage, so why would this be worse? I personally felt it was worse when Jordan had the crap beaten out of her, since that could cause - yep, you guessed it - deeper and more serious injury.

Few women are fit to hold (infantry) combat positions in the armed forces, simply because of the physical strain that is demanded of the soldiers and a physical fact of life is that men have more muscle mass than women. That doesn't mean that females can't fly aircrafts, drive tanks or hold support positions, but how many women could for example serve as loaders on a 155mm howitzer?

However, I have nothing but the outmost respect for females that do manage to take combat positons in the infantry.

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Women are now deploying and patrolling with Special operations forces as cultural support teams. I know its not new news but it seems to have many benefits.

I think some level of integration is needed. I'd begin with; i.e. female medics with forward deployed troops. Bad things happen in war, male or female it is terrible to watch a friend/comrade being hurt, shot, tortured....

Do not be a victim, Do not be a perpetrator,above all, Do not be a bystander

Sorry but women have long been raped in front of soldiers and men during war and times of violence. Women have been killed and tortured and killed destroyed as simple bystanders or "collateral damage." There is no difference in the situation except that a female soldier knows exactly what she is getting into and fully accepts the dangers of her job rather than being a helpless statistic of war time gendered violence.

There’s no one on IMDB I care enough for to use spell check- suck it grammar Nazis

It's BS. They conveniently didn't show any male soldier being tortured in front of his buddies. I doubt they would find that any more palatable. And men can be raped too. They are.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

You arbitrarily decided you knew what the movie wanted to portray, then criticized it for portraying something different. You are quite wrong.

The movie didn't make any final conclusion one way or the other. It allowed the characters to make their arguments. It portrayed a scenario where a woman, not every woman, but A woman was capable of doing the job, and it presented the positive and negative components of this event.

The main antagonist in the film doesn't finish by saying "Oh you were right, I was wrong, women can do anything." However he does grow great respect for her as an individual, but says that it is everyone else who has the problem. This is profound, because it's simultaneously acknowledging this might work, but that there are still standing social-psychological barriers. So at least to him, he sees it will cause trouble, but it might be worth it, and people have to change. The supposed supporter turned out to merely be playing politics, and the protagonist, "GI Jane" herself simply wanted the challenge. So ultimately the film doesn't give a definitive answer, it astutely notes the controversy, it counters the claims of absolute inability, but concedes there are weaknesses in men and women that may be a problem, but also may be solved.

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