I’m female and I worked on a fish farm in the north of Scotland and I joined 2 months after having my first kid by caesarean section. Lifting nets that are a hundred meters deep and weighted down is hard work for most men but I kept up. I loved it and the craic was great. I got so much sexual innuendo etc thrown at me and I took it as banter and threw it back - it was great. Being shouted…”here, Mel….give us a wank with your lips” at 6am on a shitty weather, stormy sea in an open boat may not be most women’s idea of craic, but I loved it. Got me through a horrible bout of depression after my husband shagged some wee slag! Anyone who can’t take banter ought not to take a job in that kind of workplace. Physical abuse though….that shit is not acceptable at all. And what the Jack said about wee women fighting the fires….I agree.

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Should’ve mentioned, I’m 5’11 and was 12 stone when I joined in 1999. I was 21 and fit. I feel that Wrens should’ve had a minimum height of at least 5’7 so they could at least have a decent attempt at being almost equal to the Jacks when it comes to firefighting etc.

Funny that women mutter about having to "prove themselves"! What new man in enlisted, PO, or Officers Mess Doesn't have "prove himself, Take it!"

Please may I have all my Fines back for sideboards below the tops of the ears Mulcts Jack

We used to call them "double bums".....

And talk of a team....many have died of burns wondering "where IS the Team"!! Many emergency situations are faced with (whoever is near, whoever is still alive, uninjured) WHAT THEN

I don't dispute anyone's right to have an opinion, to like or dislike something or someone. However, when feelings evolve into harassment, abuse, or any other harmful behavior it must be stopped and addressed. I've sadly noted a lot of narrow-mindedness and even some narcissistic attitudes - which includes the Commanding Officer. As a veteran senior NCO, and from a military who's military service spans three countries and hundreds of years, I can see where the Captain and his officers are exacerbating the problem by their attitudes and inviting more serious problems. Our shore unit was "co-ed" but our duties / emergencies were not such as on board a vessel. A few of the Petty and Commissioned Officers had legitimate concerns, which were ill voiced. So to HQ I would say if you are going to have a gender equality, you have to draw the line on political correctness for the sake of efficiency and reality. You don't assign anyone, of any gender to a vessel unless that person is 100% capable of doing what everyone else can do !

As one of the first TAS Wrns, thus I can attest to. I remember it like yesterday

21:50 any wonder?

Why oh why did they allow women into the armed forces. Worst thing ever giving them splitarses a vote 100%

@Highland_Moo

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Troll harder ya wee bawbag lol 😂

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Although, letting them onto submarines is definitively a bad thing.