Celebrating Women’s Military Combat Equality
Let us celebrate if we can
Women soldiers’ equality with man
For women have now achieved combat status
Giving the military cannon fodder gratis
Women can now kill with equanimity
Our quintessential mortal enemy
Yes they can shoot, stab, blow up and perhaps like men even rape-
Clearly for our essential enemy there will be no escape
And with fair women a modulating force
Testosterone will not run its hideous course
The pentagon predicts—on this there‘s no silence-
There will be a reduction in military sexual violence
Ah, but with women now armed to the teeth
Who knows what men may meet
Perhaps women will men’s crimes avenge-
Unleash blood lust- and extract their revenge
Clearly the emperium will benefit as well
By liberating these preexisting personnel
As women will with patriotic flare
Help the US wage perpetual war
You see there seems to be a recruitment problem here
Forcing soldiers to re-up year after year.
Because the volunteer army about which they’ve bragged
Was crucial for with the draft officers were frequently fragged
So here’s to women’s equality – we know with training women can
Kill as well as any virile man
To me however, this is an absolute scourge
And think the correct response a funeral dirge.
For violence does violence beget
This fact we should never forget.
For women to covet combat equality savage
Can only be described as an event most tragic.
Howard P. Charman, MD 1-29-2013