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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

First woman to join Paras

21 replies

BiologyIsReal · 19/02/2020 08:09

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51553815

A sign of our times that I had to read the story all the way down to checik whether this was really a woman.....

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Pirrip · 19/02/2020 08:49

Well done, Capt Rosie Wild. Awesome achievement!

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 19/02/2020 08:51

She's not joining the Paras though, although the article didn't make clear why. Such an amazing achievement to earn her maroon beret that I felt a bit deflated when I realised she wouldn't be joining the regiment.

DodoPatrol · 19/02/2020 08:53

I’ve just read what they have to do to qualify. Wow.

‘Also a competitive triathlete’ - surely she could add a few more sports in there in her spare time?

(And like many people at the peak of fitness, she’s genuinely stunning as well.)

Lordfrontpaw · 19/02/2020 08:55

Is she really? Well that’s a thing! (Proud aunt brag - my niece was top of her intake of fire fighters and did the same physical challenges as the men).

ByGrabtharsHammerWhatASavings · 19/02/2020 09:47

First woman to pass since it became open to women 30 years ago apparently!

zanahoria · 19/02/2020 09:55

" Marching 20 miles (32km) with a backpack and rifle, within four hours and 10 minutes"

a tough call without the backpack and rifle

MorrisZapp · 19/02/2020 09:58

'Captain Rosie Wild' - Dickens himself couldn't come up with a more inspiring or evocative name. Love it! And she's only 28. Christ.

Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons · 19/02/2020 10:07

The boxing thing basically sounds like take a beating Shock can’t defend or block
So delighted she’s a woman - well done Rosie!

MorbidMuch · 19/02/2020 10:10

Wow! What an inspiring woman. She must be incredible to overcome the height disadvantage she has on some of those team challenges.

Is it men who she is boxing too?

Callmejudith · 19/02/2020 10:16

Fantastic!

Aesopfable · 19/02/2020 10:23

And she's only 28

That is pretty much your peak physically.

Amazing achievement

NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace · 19/02/2020 10:24

Fantastic. I am genuinely in awe. You are amazing, Captain Rosie Wild Smile

CaveMum · 19/02/2020 10:37

Well done Capt Rosie!

The people that take these selection tests are are as nails, as well as nuts! My BIL passed out as a Royal Marine on the third (and final) attempt having suffered hairline fractures on his first attempt and hypothermia on his second.

Mockersisrightasusual · 19/02/2020 10:40

Plenty of women in the Parachute Regiment. They are Quartermasters, Adjutants and Medical Officers. One famous documentary on P Company showed a fearsome Trunchbull of an M.O. who wielded an officers cain to smack any recruit who presented improperly when she asked them to cough.

Catting · 19/02/2020 11:23

I mentally finished your opening post with 'the first woman in the paras "is a man"' such is the state of things nowadays.

GrumpyGran8 · 19/02/2020 11:56

A sign of our times that I had to read the story all the way down to checik whether this was really a woman.....
I had to check the photograph, to see that she was clearly shorter and more lightly built than the men around her. Sad
Women are being erased....

DodoPatrol · 19/02/2020 14:05

I would be genuinely impressed by a transwoman who got through that selection test too -- as long as she didn't claim to be the 'first woman' to do so.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 19/02/2020 14:23

Funny isn't it? Fully expected that top be a transwoman but a split second's look at a photograph and we know... we really do know... Capt Rosie is an actual becunted woman!

Still pissed off that my first thought wasn't congratulatory. STOP FUCKING STEALING MY LIFE!!!!

PeterPomegranate · 19/02/2020 19:08

What an achievement! She must be well hard (and I mean that as a compliment).

SonEtLumiere · 19/02/2020 20:42

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FrogsFrogs · 19/02/2020 21:56

"I would be genuinely impressed by a transwoman who got through that selection test too -- as long as she didn't claim to be the 'first woman' to do so."

Remember Chloe? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/transgender-soldier-british-army-serve-frontline-scots-guards-chloe-allen-a7312751.html

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