Santorum: Women shouldn't be in front-line combat.

[useful idiot]

It's not a "natural instinct."  It's entirely a cultural thing.  It just appears inborn because of the way gender socialization works.  Just like every other aspect of gender.

If it's not a natural instinct (which you couldn't prove anyway), you still admit that it's a cultural one, and therefore its practical implications are the same. Whether or not you believe it to be natural has no bearing on the impact a change like this would have on the military...

[useful idiot]

It's not a "natural instinct."  It's entirely a cultural thing.  It just appears inborn because of the way gender socialization works.  Just like every other aspect of gender.

If it's not a natural instinct (which you couldn't prove anyway), you still admit that it's a cultural one, and therefore its practical implications are the same. Whether or not you believe it to be natural has no bearing on the impact a change like this would have on the military...

You could respond the same way to integration in the military and the repeal of DADT...

Not really, no. Comparing the differences between the genders to those between skin colors and sexual preferences is at its face bogus.