Now that thing about unwanted sex: Now that we’ve all seen the question, and the stats for girls **and** boys, isn’t the problem there the non-gender specific teenage perception that rooting is cool and grown-up? And also that intoxicants make both genders less likley to think with their brains?

Males using their superior strength to coerce sex is also real problem of course. A **separate** problem. Surely there are more than enough stats about this latter, eg see Tigtog above, without bringing in something irrelevant about non gender specific peer pressure?

Name a great female general. ‘Zactly. When it comes to ordering men (ex-babies) to tear each other into bloody shreds, you women are complete pussies.

Most men, including me, do wonder and/or go for it about the warrior elite thingy and/or getting mobbed up to defend the tribe if the need arises.

But basically, and because of the points I made above, I think blokely blokes don’t make very good generals. I want my military commanders to be more girly. I want them to fight like a cornered tigress while also remembering what they fighting for beyond immediate victory.

Allenby pressed flowers, Monash wrote poetry, Nimitz cried in public after his fuckup at Leyte Gulf, Slim personally ripped Japanese skulls off his army’s vehicles and Arthur Wesselley weeped as he walked through the aftermath of Waterloo. The two things they all had in common.

One. They were real girlymen by today’s media pundit bravado and bluster standards. A bit too feminine if you know what I mean. Pressing flowers, poetry, crying.

Two. They were great leaders who brilliantly won battles. And did so not least because their troops felt the respect and confidence was mutual.

But yes, it’s unlikely we’ll see a great female combat officer at general staff level. Mainly because you dames are smarter than that.

However I look forward with great interest to Hillary taking over direction of the campaign against the latest bunch of corsairs to plague the empire’s trade routes. It’ll be the The Wind And The Lion in reverse.

And thank you, also, Tigtog.