Comments on: Not My Uncle Dick’s Military

By: Joyce Arnold

Joyce Arnold — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:20:26 +0000

According to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Netwowrk, since 1994, more than 13,500 service members have been fired under DADT. How many women, and men, have been targets of sexual assault during the same period is, no doubt, equally as horrendous. And no doubt, as you say Taylor, DADT provides cover for those responsible.

While efforts continue, by SLDN and others, to repeal DADT, word from the Obama administration makes it clear this isn’t anything like a priority. At a time of multiple deployments, high suicide rates, as well as high rates of sexual assault, repeal of DADT would be one significant step.

By: Taylor Marsh

Taylor Marsh — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:03:26 +0000

How in the world the brass doesn’t get that DADT provides cover for sexual assault against men is beyond me.

As for female soldiers, they simply have to approach it as being the next line of suffragettes, this time standing a line for the biggest change of all, equality among men who hold guns.

By: secularhumanizinevoluter

secularhumanizinevoluter — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:00:27 +0000

This is an apalling and unaceptable situation. Sexual assault is occuring in epidemic numbers through out our society. Virtually EVERY woman I know has been the a object of at the very LEAST sexual harrasment on the job and street and upwards of 90% of them actual assault to outright rape.
A BIG part of this attitude is the repression of normal (and by normal I simply mean acknowledging that SEX is a healthy normal activitey for consenting adults)sexuality through out our society.
Once it is OK to deny certain people’s sexuality as ligitamit based on nonsense like “natural law” and the bogus crap served up by in particular rightwing UUUUberchristiansit is OK to then exert dominance over and claim as your own their sexuality because they are now less then human.
Until Officers are in place in the military who obey the orders of their superiors and not allow their compliance to be colored by their OWN religion/societal prejudices (and this is in referance to the UUUUberchristian push to stack the military with evangelical zomboids) but according to their oaths nothing will change. They just don’t see it as a problem much like the politicion who said “Ladies, if you’re gonna be raped, might as well lay back and enjoy it”