ABSTRACT
Women were, in addition to being attractive, more interesting, more in touch with their feelings, better able to articulate nuances, and more apt to justify their decisions with reason than with force. Worse, the military seems more than ever to showcase all the worst qualities of men. Female officers, generally speaking, seem to feel they have to be pre-emptively harsh to show everyone they aren't pushovers and are just as strong as the men. As a tool of action, a sort of machine to set in motion, the military is both useful and destructive: once set in motion, it's hard to unset it. It fails to understand that it can't force what it's selling, and fails to acknowledge that it can't control all people all the time right here right now, double quick because they say so—at least not when it's four peaceful years of college, rather than the thick of a one-day battle.
