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I WISH I WERE<br />

A MAM<br />

BE A MAN AND DO !T<br />

UNITED STATES NAVY<br />

: 13) ' • '<br />

Be a man and do it. War has been a "man's thing" for millennia, with a few notable exceptions.<br />

But as this World War I recruiting poster demonstrates, women have played important roles<br />

encouraging the men. War itself is highly sexualized, and often weapon systems themselves<br />

sexualized, as these leggy ICBM booster rockets are in a cartoon from the Minuteman Service<br />

News advocating systematic design reviews. Actually, though, despite images such as these, the<br />

line between men and women in war is rapidly dissolving. When integrated intimately with<br />

machines, mechanical and computer skills are much more important attributes then protruding<br />

genitalia. Gender is growing irrelevant for soldier cyborgs. World War 1 poster by Howard<br />

Chandler <strong>Chris</strong>ty, Imperial War Museum, London. Cartoonfrom Minuteman Service News,<br />

no. 33, July-August 1967, p. 3.<br />

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