Discussion Main / QuicklyDemotedWoman

Can someone familiar with this work trim out the natter? I don't know how much of the original post is accurate.

• A variant occurs in Halo 3: ODST. The commanding officer is a woman, but while she's not demoted, she's patronized by her subordinates, viewed as eye-candy by the troops, has her orders ignored, gets rescued by a male character whom she used to be involved with, has her authority stepped on by lower-ranking officers during ops that are supposed to be her speciality, and is apparently fine with all of this. Though some of this may be because she's part of the Office of Naval Intelligence, who are usually officers without too much front-line experience and who in most cases are not trusted by the rank-and-file, being referred to in derogatory manner as "spooks" (She is in fact called this a couple times... by her love-interest). In short, it's not because she's a woman (well, excepting Romeo's quips) but because she's O.N.I.
  • How exactly were Dare's orders ignored? At the time of the slip space jump that split up The Squad, none of them actually knew what Dare had planned for them to do. How is The Squad supposed to carry out orders that their CO hasn't even given them?
  • Plus, Buck's somewhat callous treatment of her can be explained by a) previously being in a relationship with her, b) said relationship ending with Dare vanishing without a goodbye after Buck asked her to marry him, and c) Dare doesn't seem to mind.
  • This smells more of Positive Discrimination than anything else. All male team? Got to give them a female boss, otherwise it's 'sexist'.

Could this be pulled in spirit by kicking the girl into an Administrative / Mission Control-type post, wherein while she's still Senior she's no longer The Captain?