I think Operation Honour is the necessary evil in the sense that it has propelled us to move forward and explore issues. I do a lot of presentations to battalions, combat units, and the feeling that I'm getting is not to push Operation Honour on them. They're sick and tired of hearing about it. The backlash against women is atrocious. They feel it's because of them that they have to sit through a harassment briefing, so it's had a lot of negative impact, as well as positive. It's brought things into the open.
You cannot order soldiers to respect women, LGBT, visible minorities or any DGM group. You have to create situations where a light will appear in their mind and they'll say, “Wow, luckily we have women on board”, women in their platoons who can push through this exercise in a certain way.
If we design our training so that women are valued, with scenarios like Afghanistan or Haiti, where women get to be the leaders in talking to the women who are on the belligerents' side so they can connect, men are going to see that if they didn't have women, they wouldn't be getting this information, this precious intelligence. We don't do that. We force them to respect women, and then we design obstacle courses that physically highlight women's weaknesses instead of their strengths.
That's what I mean by changing the paradigms.