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- Posted: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:23:21 +0000
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/14/health/military-sexual-assaults-personality-disorder
The rape of women in the military is a fairly controversial topic, though it shouldn't be. The average person, as far as I know, is opposed to rape because it is a vile action. However, something to do with the military makes people lose any reason they had and go, to use the industry term, full-a*****e.
Take for instance, Liz Trotta. She appeared on Fox News ranting about how women who join the military are begging to be raped, men are raping machines so it's not their fault, and that women there get what's coming to them. The video footage shows that the Fox host was even bothered by her out-and-out monstrous argument.
We hear these kinds of arguments occasionally, but really, I have to wonder. Why is it that people, for some reason, feel the need to defend men in the military by calling all of them rape monsters incapable of controlling their urges? To me, that's an insult to the uniform.
Unfortunately, the uniform does little to protect people under its purview. Women are getting discharged for medical reasons following rapes instead of the military solving the problem. The problem being allowing assholes in. Men aren't all rapists. Men can in fact control themselves. Why then is there a laissez faire attitude towards it from HighComm? It seems like they, in effect, propagate stories about their soldiers being loose cannons.
Now, if I was trying to maintain the reputation of the US military, I wouldn't be excusing the actions of the bad apples. It's counterproductive. There are good men and women fighting for the country and we have assholes being apologists for assholes in the military, which stains the uniform for every member.
"These women are so fffuuckinnngg naive. If you join the army, what the fffuuccckkk did you expect to do there? Your only job really is to relieve pressure. In a testosterone driven institution, like an army, being a female, of any animal or breed, you will get it, thats a fact of nature. Its how males work. Hell I have seen men do it into a tree. Men are driven to insanity unless the pressure is relieved. I find them very dumb to think this was rape. It was their duty to help those men. Former marine." - An example from the comments section from CNN.
Do I think men think this?
No, I think a few ******** up guys do. Why do y'all suppose the military is sticking up for them and not for the actual soldiers who represent the US? Is it because the problem is more widespread than we think and to handle it would hurt our deployment numbers? That seems impossible to me, but maybe. Any vets or people on leave who can add commentary?
The rape of women in the military is a fairly controversial topic, though it shouldn't be. The average person, as far as I know, is opposed to rape because it is a vile action. However, something to do with the military makes people lose any reason they had and go, to use the industry term, full-a*****e.
Take for instance, Liz Trotta. She appeared on Fox News ranting about how women who join the military are begging to be raped, men are raping machines so it's not their fault, and that women there get what's coming to them. The video footage shows that the Fox host was even bothered by her out-and-out monstrous argument.
We hear these kinds of arguments occasionally, but really, I have to wonder. Why is it that people, for some reason, feel the need to defend men in the military by calling all of them rape monsters incapable of controlling their urges? To me, that's an insult to the uniform.
Unfortunately, the uniform does little to protect people under its purview. Women are getting discharged for medical reasons following rapes instead of the military solving the problem. The problem being allowing assholes in. Men aren't all rapists. Men can in fact control themselves. Why then is there a laissez faire attitude towards it from HighComm? It seems like they, in effect, propagate stories about their soldiers being loose cannons.
Now, if I was trying to maintain the reputation of the US military, I wouldn't be excusing the actions of the bad apples. It's counterproductive. There are good men and women fighting for the country and we have assholes being apologists for assholes in the military, which stains the uniform for every member.
"These women are so fffuuckinnngg naive. If you join the army, what the fffuuccckkk did you expect to do there? Your only job really is to relieve pressure. In a testosterone driven institution, like an army, being a female, of any animal or breed, you will get it, thats a fact of nature. Its how males work. Hell I have seen men do it into a tree. Men are driven to insanity unless the pressure is relieved. I find them very dumb to think this was rape. It was their duty to help those men. Former marine." - An example from the comments section from CNN.
Do I think men think this?
No, I think a few ******** up guys do. Why do y'all suppose the military is sticking up for them and not for the actual soldiers who represent the US? Is it because the problem is more widespread than we think and to handle it would hurt our deployment numbers? That seems impossible to me, but maybe. Any vets or people on leave who can add commentary?
