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Jack Gladney posted:Unworthy of celebration or recognition outside of sexual reproduction: the female body. I tried reading the whole thing, every single word, until I got the part that talks about the role of men in reproduction: it said something like "they are the sowers, not the field", at which point I couldn't handle it anymore and skimmed the bolded parts. This author thinks women are like a field, like "everyone walks on it and some people put something in it"? That competes for worst metaphor I've ever heard; I'm also reiterate the "this is creepy as gently caress" guy. Edited to avoid double-post Bel_Canto posted:Kind of, yes. Patriarchy/male supremacy and homoeroticism are pretty much inseparable, and in any society or social group that institutionalized rigid separation of men and women, you're going to see a whole lot of homoeroticism come creeping to the surface. Any guys who's been in a high school or college locker room is aware of this on a basic level: the constant affirmations of heterosexuality and denials of gayness exist precisely because people are aware, even if unconsciously, that there's a homoerotic vibe in the room. Homoeroticism has to be constantly fought off in a patriarchal setting because it's seen as feminine behavior, even though the gap between admiring masculinity and admiring men is so thin as to be functionally nonexistent. You also see this in places similar to a college locker room. My old platoon in the army used to have "Gay Tuesdays", where it was entirely acceptable and encouraged (not from the leadership, just the lower enlisted goofing around) for guys to hug, spoon and sexually harass each other by copping feels or making comments. It's just the level of comfort that members of groups like this have with other members of the group that changes how far the "joke" goes. I would not be surprised at all to know similar things happen in police or firemen locker rooms as well. I was a senior specialist at the time and I was always doing real poo poo, so no spooning on a cot or fake boyfriend for me 
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If there is one branch of the military that doesn't need budget cuts, it's the Marines. Marines would wind up at Fort Bragg fairly frequently to beg for our extra parts so they could fix their equipment; I think they're running about as lean as they can be expected to. If the defense budget needs to be trimmed (and we all know it does), I would agree with him that base pay is a much better place to take it from than to reduce services to servicememebers and familymembers like healthcare (it would be better still to just not fund some of the new experimental weapons that cost billions of dollars, but that's not being talked about here). Leave most of the important entitlements (I'm using this in the "military budget" sense, since it is a real term in military finance) that support families in place, and the single guys in the barracks can carpool and eat in the chow hall more often or something; that's what I did my first couple years in the army anyway.
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VitalSigns posted:Joke's on us. The whole point of creating the Sergeant Major of Every X rank in the first place was to give the enlisted soldiers an advocate in tne Pentagon and provide the top brass with the enlisted perspective. It happens to every E-9: spend way too much time with senior people and you lose track of the people on the ground. This satire article is pretty spot-on.
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Mineaiki posted:making sure every kid in America has a full belly when they go to class My mom gave me an earful about how terrible Michelle Obama's school lunch thing is. Her entire line of reasoning was "Kids don't like eating healthy food, so all that food and money is going to waste". I explained to her that I would rather have wasted food that kids wouldn't eat rather than kids who had no choice to eat at all. My family was on welfare when I was growing up (including free/reduced-price lunches at school) and my mom was a member of the Communist Party in the 70s. I don't know what happened to her.
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ProperGanderPusher posted:Like all the other boomers, the minute she or her husband started actually making money, they abandoned their leftist principles entirely. Classic FYGM. She is poor now, she's never been better off than lower-middle class. She takes donations from a local church group or something and works 2 crappy part-time jobs. If my little brother wasn't getting Social Security to cover his disability, she wouldn't have any money at all. She just doesn't have time to follow the news or something and believes what the retards around her tell her, I guess. EDIT: I do appreciate the assumptions about her character though, that's classy. Eulogistics fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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