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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
Cats don’t mourn, they dine.
Why do so many trolls go “I wasn’t a misogynist until women/feminists made me that way” and then when they describe this event it clearly shows they were already misogynist to begin with?
Otis already thought women were weak, then he saw feminist sites saying that women can be strong and got angry because it contradicted his pre-established notions, and now he blames those sites for his bigotry.
“I’m a man, so I would never throw a kick”
….I think that practically any woman with, say, five minutes of training can take down Otis, then.
Given that he seems to believe fights fall completely to strenght and not to, you know, technique.
lauralot: That was wonderful. After a long day selling knives it was a pleasure to be laughing myself silly into my beer.
katz: M. says Fassbender; as he looks most like me. And shucks, I’m flattered.
Otis: First of all, some marines are huge guys who even after basic training are well over 220 lbs. Doing three at such a high weight is different than doing it at a more normal weight. Second of all, most marines can easily pass the pullup portion of the test. The hard part of the test is the running which I certainly would be unable to do.
Nope.
The hard part is the pull-ups. That’s why the passing score is 3. I’m out of shape; by my standards, so my time for 2 miles (army standard) is probably down to about 14 minutes.
That’s 13 minutes after two-minutes of push-ups, and two minutes of sit-ups. If I didn’t have to do the first two events I’m probablu still running about 13.
So you don’t know the standard and are too lazy to look it up. As I said, you are wrong. Hundreds of young men fail to get into basic training, directly, every month; because they can’t do the push-up to standard. I have seen them unable to manage even one.
This wasn’t to me, but it bears addressing:
Again, you don’t know jack-shit about fighting. It’s not about brawn, it’s about brains. Give me the chance to land the first blow and I (at 5’9″ and 120 lbs) am confident I can take out Mike Tyson; if he doesn’t know it’s coming, and I can do it face to face.
damn… blockquote fail. And I was doing so well.
true story. I was working on a set (Limit Up…. wretched flick, and so-so food, but it paid well) and we were hanging out, between bits of work. My knife fighting instructor, one of his hand to hand instructors, and me. We were talking the peculiar sort of shop that people who train in different disciplines; and know each other well, tend to fall into.
I was explaining that I liked wearing square toed, low-heeled, riding boots (for horses), because they made it easier to fake a knee to the groin, and then snap-kick to the knee.
“If you miss the heel dislocates the kneecap, or you hook the leg and they fall down so you can stomp on them.”
My knife fighting instructor, one of the most effective fighters I know, looked at me, with that sort of mildly stunned respect one has when hearing of some really subtle; effective thing, one has never thought of/encountered and said, “You know, I always forget what a nasty little fucker you can be”.
I have to be. I’m not huge, and I can’t do pull-ups very well. 🙂
Glad you liked it, Pecunium!
Fassbender it is, then. He’s great at an even, measured delivery that would really work for that scene. The man does a mean monologue.
Daniel Craig reminds me of my father, but his chin is too narrow.
Pecunium’s father was actually James Bond, that’s why he’s so badass. 😉
MollyRen: That’s a lot sexier than the truth. I didn’t meet my father until I was 19. I managed to survive a moderately misspent youth; some of it in pretty seedy parts of town. I got very good at looking over my shoulder, and going from calm, to berserk.
Which only works if you know what to do when berserk. I was lucky, or I’d be dead.
James Bond must have a lot of children, but properly Pecunium would have been from the Connery era (by my estimate).
This made my night
Yes katz, I would be the child of a David Niven/Peter Sellers/Ursula Andress/Dalia Lavi/Terence Copper era James Bond (1967 Casino Royale)
So basically you’re throwing an extended tantrum about the fact that the culture you live in doesn’t reflect your own personal preferences and prejudices as much as you would like.
Poor baby, life must be so hard for you. Here, have a tissue.
Pecunium, you should just thank your lucky stars you missed George Lazenby.
I kinda liked that George Lazenby one. Didn’t see a single one of Timothy What’shisface or Pierce Brosnan. Or Daniel Craig. Come to think of it, I’m not much of a Bond fan.
I read the books. Great stuff… semi-reliable narrator.
It is not women per se who should be “blamed” for the prevalence of rape in the armed forces. Women (since WWII) have shown by their enlistment that they lack the capacity of good judgement, common sense, and intelligence to make sound decisions for themselves, and they can’t see the relation between rape and making their bodies freely available in a setting that almost guarantees that men wll decline morally and sexually to the lowest common denominator.
War (and war preparations) do terrible things to people! It is the business of armed forces to train WARRIORS–not male feminists, not “pussymales”, and not ladies’ companions.
Recognising the lack of any sound judgement among women, it is the fault of government policies that misapply gender “equality’ to areas that it simply doesn’t, and cannot, apply. The armed forces should be exclusively male, and the issue of rape would not arise.
The issue of gay rape, is another kettle of fish, and should be dealt with in other posts, and perhaps other websites.
Oh look, the pro slavery guy wants to talk about poor judgement.
Go perfume your dolls, abuse advocate.
Oh, David K. Meller. Fuck off. And while you’re fucking off, do a little research into the existing and established mixed-gender armed forces (with openly gay servicemembers) around the world that don’t appear to have nearly the prevalence of rape that the US forces do. And then fuck off some more.
This is a brilliant reveal. Meller explicitly equates “existing while female in the presence of men” and “making one’s body freely available”. Female soldiers’ bodies are approximately as freely available as the cigarettes behind the counter at the drug store; the fact that something could be taken or used by force does not make it free. I hope that the clerks at toy stores keep an eye on this one.
Now I need a shower.
Aw, have the dollies stopped talking to you again, Meller? Have you run out of cancer patients to mock and kittens to euthanize? I’d sympathize, but you’re a grade a asshat who can FUCK RIGHT OFF as far as I care.
What a Grade-A asshat Meller is. To counteract the toxin he spews, here is a video of some rescued ducks being introduced to water for the first time in their new sanctuary home:
Ha ha, should have refreshed. Glad KathleenB and I have the same view of Meller!