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A Brigadier General in the US Army has been charged with rape. Well, actually, Brig. General Jeffrey Sinclair has been charged with a veritable laundry list of offenses, as set forth in an Army press release, among them
forcible sodomy, wrongful sexual conduct, attempted violation of an order, violations of regulations by wrongfully engaging in inappropriate relationships and misusing a government travel charge card, violating general orders by possessing alcohol and pornography while deployed, maltreatment of subordinates, filing fraudulent claims, engaging in conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman and engaging in conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline, or of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.
While details are still sketchy, the charges apparently involve misconduct with several female subordinates.
Over on The Spearhead, W.F. Price bravely takes on the real villain here: women. Apparently their mere presence in the Armed Forces is enough to provoke male soldiers and generals alike to rape them and, while they’re at it, to buy booze and porn, mistreat their subordinates and rack up unauthorized purchases on government issued charge cards. In a post with the title “How’s that Women in the Military Thing Going Now?” Price gets right to the heart of the matter:
I suspect that the more combat-oriented environment an environment is in the military, the more likely these problems with women are to come about. For one thing, fighting men are more passionate by nature, and then there’s the fact that these men also turn women on more.
Yes, because when male soldiers rape female soldiers, the problem lies with woman in uniform getting “turned on” by men in uniform.
A forward base in hostile territory is not likely to have the same atmosphere as an assignment stateside. The sense of danger actually tends to make people more sexually charged, or so I’ve heard from those who survived battles and sieges on the Eastern Front in WWII, where female-operated AA batteries behind the front lines became de-facto brothels.
Of course, male soldiers are also known to rape civilian women, so by Price’s logic women should neither serve in the military, nor not serve in the military. In times of war, they should just do all us dudes a favor and cease to exist at all.
If not, well, women just need to face up to the danger of “hanky panky” that their mere existence creates:
[O]ur personnel are serving in a remote Muslim country with no access to local females to speak of, and things are bound to happen. As to whether Sinclair “forced” anything on anybody, we don’t know at this point, and it seems unlikely, but it isn’t surprising at all that some forbidden hanky-panky may have occurred.
At this point, virtually all we know about the alleged crimes here is contained in that laundry list of charges I posted above. Yet someone Price is able to deduce that Sinclair is likely to be innocent here. Evidently Price is convinced that anyone who is a “real combat general” and who has “earned a number of awards related to combat arms and parachuting” is someone who is to be implicitly trusted.
In the comments, the Spearhead regulars offer their own unique takes on the issues of women in the military.
Keyster seems to dream of a day when women can not only be kicked out of the military but also out of pretty much everything else as well, except presumably the kitchen:
It’s not safe to work or serve with women.
The potential for trouble is way too high.
Once they invaded the workplace the last vestige of male only space was the military. Now even this is no longer true. I don’t know where men can go and work with other men without female interference anymore. Even if you own your own business, the government forces you to hire them…and invest in all manner of special female accommodations, like breast pumping stations and tampon dispensors.
Ironically the safest “male only” space is a Gay Bar. And even then curious women wander in to meddle and cause disruption.
Numnut drops some biotruths on us all:
Appears women are very horny once a month and will have sex with the most aggressive male available to them at that time.This re-enforces the “thinking with the vagina” theme that a women herself espoused.
Now that the lawz have given wymyn free pass to act out their base animals nature,no man is safe from the Whiplash regret post-sex.(ref to OT)
No doubt these milfem cursors were ovulating and thinking with the gash when they asked to be screwed.
The proper thing for the law to do is recognize this animal instinct and either regulate wymyns behaviors of legalize male sexuality again.
Women want it both ways,a rough man for sex,and prison for rough men.
Jean Valjean hopes that this case will help to expose women for being the filthy sluts they really are:
The question on my mind is will this man fight the charges and reveal the sexual nature of many women in the military or will he go meekly to his fate?
A commenter with the highly ironic name Reality offers up this bit of secondhand shitthatneverhappened.txt.
There was a guy who had been in the military who told me that in actual warfare when the bombs start dropping & the gunfire starts coming at them in an actual combat situation, women just throw down their guns and start running screaming like they would do any other situation.
We’re doomed. All so we can pretend ‘women are just the same as women’ [sic] – that’s more important to all these idiots that run this country & half the idiot population than the security of the country. It’s that way in any situation in life- this political correctness & diversity shit is becomes more important than success, life or death- you name it. In that sense it’s like drugs or alcohol addiction – you throw away your whole life for this one stupid, trivial thing.
Equality: Stupid and Trivial.
I learn new things every time I read The Spearhead.
For some actual facts on the epidemic of rape in the military see:
Leon Panetta: Military’s handling of rape is an “outrage.”
Naomi Wolf: A culture of coverup: rape in the ranks of the US military
Victims say military condones rape
Rape in the Military: America’s Dirty Little Secret
New military rape lawsuit filed
I think there’s a compulsion here to be on the receiving end of verbal abuse, kind of like NWOs.
Horrifying misandry: women and girls being told that if they really want to do something and are prepared to work their asses off for it, it can be achieved. Also, being told that its okay to be a sexual being and that dressing to show your figure in ways men find pleasing is a terrible oppression.
Dude, if you feel so oppressed by feminists blogging, or mainstream media DON’T PARTICIPATE.
I don’t particularly care for Marcotte. Which means I don’t bother reading her stuff or trying to engage her.
Lauralot, I can’t decide whether I want to cast Jeremy Renner, Michael Fassbender, or Daniel Craig in the role of Pecunium. Fassbender probably looks the most like him, although he’s too young, and is the only one who could ever sport a braid. Daniel Craig, of course, kicks the most ass.
No idea. I thought we were all humorless feminists.
@CaptainBathrobe you read my mind. Sweatstains, I hereby declare you responsible for every single thing that gets written at Stormfront. Although you strike me as more the WND type, so you can be responsible for them, too.
@pillow,
It’s sort of like when far-right fundies cry about freedom of religion, when, of course, what the really want is the freedom to force people to believe as they do. The very existence of out and proud atheists is just intolerable, and is evidence of how oppressed fundamentalist Christians are.
This is, of course, opposed to ordinary people who just happen to be Christian. I don’t have a problem with them.
@emilygoddess,
Sweatstains, I hereby declare you responsible for every single thing that gets written at Stormfront.
Somehow, I don’t think he’d mind about being associated with their core message. He seems, however, to get caught up in minor doctrinal differences with other wingnut groups, so he probably distance himself from them–say, for not hating Hispanics enough, or something.
Otis gets along better with women than men guyz!
I bet you do sweaty. Its always easier to get along with your inferiors, whom you can safely ignore or bully right?
Captain Bathrobe, its not just that people exist with differing views that cannot be forcibly channged, its also that the people with different views are happy about their lives and find them fufilling.
Think about how many slurs are directed at feminists that display how convinced the non feminist is that our lives are miserable and worthless in our own eyes.
I find this hard to believe.
“I’m a man, so I would never throw a kick”
Hahahahaha! Otis, go tell that to the MMA fighters you love so much! Go tell that to Bruce Lee! Go tell that to a ninja!! Or a shaollin priest.
Agh pillow don’t get him started mansplaining how to fight again
Oh, no, we must hear all about his fighting styles. I need to work it into my screenplay.
Wait… Otis, you’re blaming Feministing, Jezebel, and Pandagon for your misogyny?
Guess what?
Those were my first experiences with feminism.
And you know what?
I’m still a feminist ally. I’m not a big fan of those three sites, personally (partly because I really did feel unwelcome there even when I was agreeing with their writers, which was more often than not), but they represent feminism in the same way Mao and Pol-Pot represent atheism.
So I’m calling bullshit on that one.
Also, how arrogant do you have to be to argue with a veteran about what goes on in the army? Are you fucking kidding me?
Usually, when I end up in a conversation with someone who very obviously knows a shit-ton more than I do about whatever it is we’re discussing, I shut up and listen to them because… you know… they actually know what they’re talking about. I recently had a conversation about Physics, and a Physics major (a woman who wants to work on M-Theory) joined the conversation. Every single one of us (most of us men… a couple of them MRAs!) had the decency to shut up and listen to her because this was her area of expertise. She… you know… knew what she was fucking talking about.
It seems obvious to me that Pecunium knows what he’s talking, since he’s… you know… a veteran. So I’d shut up and listen to Pecunium if I were you, Sweaty.
Otis said “I’m a man so I would never throw a kick”. There is only one gender represented in the UFC. Since it is the kick-throwing gender, it must therefore be women (because, as we all know, we live in a gender binary). Women like Jon Jones, Chael Sonnen, Anderson Silva, etc, prove time and time again that fighting is a women’s sport and men needs not apply.
@ lauralot- He runs repeatedly and blindly into his opponent’s fists, of course- that’s how Men fight!
@pillowinhell,
Very true. I can’t remember how many MRAs have predicted that feminists will die alone and barren, with only their cats for company.
Presumably later in the scene Otis says that men never throw kicks, then Pecunium kicks him and says “Then I guess that never happened.” Or something like that. /imshitatscreenplays
I dunno – I’m not sure how being good at pull-ups would help with that, and we’ve already established that being good at pull-ups is somehow absolutely critical to defeating people in a fight.
@lauralot, re: your kickass screenplay. To me it’s obvious that the denouement should be a pull ups contest . Maybe film-Pecunium could just walk over and knock film-Otis off the bar with a bored push.
Film-Pecunium wrenches the bar off and smacks Otis with it.
Judging by how many parents and partnered people hang on this board, we must have missed that memo.
Not to mention that a bad day by yourself is miles better than a good day with a superior, oppressive jerk.
@katz I like the way you think!
“You are a worthless feminist, you were born a feminist, you’ll die a feminist, and only your fleas will mourn you!”
…What I wrote makes no sense. That should have been “only your cats will mourn you.”
Cats have fleas (sometimes) – I think it still flies.