Farmer Dean: “Get the rude,crude,and socially unacceptable men out.”
Forget the sarcasm tag? It’s the military, not a social club or a church. A good percentage of military members, both men and women, use foul language and joke explicitly about sexual matters. That’s not the same thing as inappropriate physical contact or rape. I’d prefer if they behaved like saints, but that’s not very realistic given American culture these days. Besides, the military exists to win wars.
“I’d prefer if they behaved like saints, but that’s not very realistic given American culture these days.”
Soldiers Sailors and Marines never have been saints throughout history. It is not a result of today’s culture.
I served with many women over my career. I married a Woman Marine over 40 years ago. We both knew women who made or threatened guys with false accusations of rape. Many more who could outcuss any male Marine and who would talk about anything in any company.
As an AF officer I served with several female officers who had no qualms about talking about their sexual conquests and the men they’d had, unsolicited and in mixed company.
Historically it has been the same for soldiers. As noted in Kipling’s poem “Tommy” — Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints —
But when the heat is on —
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
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F**k the democrats, their party, their Fuehrer.