You can only shudder to imagine the latest calendar: combat girls. Israeli female soldiers in basic training bared almost all in a series of photos posted on Facebook.
It's not clear whether the young women were engaging in a subversive act or trying to bring a bit of erotic fun to their day jobs, but one thing's for sure: their commanders weren't impressed.
According to an article in the Daily Beast, the IDF soldiers were promptly apologizing to their superiors after their "immature antics" went viral on social media. Apparently Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that 88 percent of “all roles in the IDF are now open to women.”
It's hard to imagine what the young soldiers were thinking when they posed for the photos. Most likely they weren't. Frustrating, because it's hard enough for women to break into careers in the army. Then a group goes and pulls stunts like this one, which essentially shoots feminism in the foot.
Were the soliders simply letting their hair down and assert their femininity in an ultra-hard male environment? Or were they making an entirely different statement altogether?
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