Female Soldier Kate Lord Wins Queen's Medal For Battling The Misogyny Of Afghanistan Troops - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015...
Feb 26, 2015
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"A female army officer has been given a medal for challenging the "highly misogynistic" views of Afghan soldiers. Staff Sergeant Kate Lord, 32, received the prestigious Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service for challenging the opinions of young men in the Afghan National Army, who accused her of being weak were shocked that her husband would let her go to Afghanistan. Lord trained Afghans in the Royal Army Physical Training Corps, and was praised for helping to tackle the country's "deeply conservative culture".""
- Mark H
"Her award citation says that "nobody in this mission - male or female - has done more to further the standing of women in the Afghan National Army". She said: "Originally I was sent out to mentor women in the Afghan National Army. However, when I got there there were no women because there had been a delay in their recruitment, so I was thrown in the deep end and sent to mentor the men. If I had known I was mentoring the men I probably would have prepared a little bit more perhaps.""
- Mark H
""When I first met my mentors I had three and it was a weird reaction. They at first stared for quite some time, they were intrigued with me, then the questions started firing towards me. Very personal questions, so they wanted to know whether I was married or not. They were shocked that my husband would let me go to Afghan on my own with lots of men. Then they started getting onto the physical aspects - because I am small they thought I was weak. I then had the challenge of changing and proving them wrong.""
- Mark H
That's awesome. It's also somewhat ironic for the Queen considering Prince Philip's past comments demonstrate his raging misogyny.
- Benny Bucko (Josh)