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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
Otis – good for you! I hope your high standards continue to serve you well in life.
@kiwigirl Yeah, I’m not fond of ‘survivor’ either (for me personally, anyone else who wants to should) I prefer ‘person who a bad thing happened to’.
I’m not going to be talking up coaching, I can only handle rugby players for 80 minutes at a time.
Oooh, I like — let’s try just ignoring the racist. He’ll hate that.
I mean, “I have black and hispanic relatives, but I refuse to meet them”? Talk about troll bait. Though if said relatives actually exist, then he’s obviously doing them a favor by staying away.
@WeeBoy this is where I admit that I can’t stand rugby. Sometimes the media hype around it makes me feel like I should hand in my citizenship for being so disinterested in the national sport. I do like the rugby 7s though, just because of the costumes. On the other hand, cricket…
TL;DR; antisemitism.
If Jews are not biologically inferior to Aryans, why did they let the Holocaust happen?
Apply the same logic to other instances of oppression and it sounds especially heinous. Then why it is used to justify the oppression of women?
Meanwhile a few threads below we have a dude arguing that the MRM isn’t hateful and racist because they have black people there.
Honestly, my dream team is just all Charizards.
Water-types? Please. I will eat steamed Blastoise for dinner.
I would cast a level 9 Ignore spell. That was the only thing that seemed to work, as I recall.
You must have a very short memory. Nobody was able to ignore me and Amanda had to remind people like 10 billion times to stop responding to me, despite the fact that she herself couldn’t help responding to me on occasion.
Anyway, Manboobz/David whatever his name is asks me to stop posting and I’m gone. No need to even bother with the banning. I have a special revulsion for Amanda which required me to troll her blog endlessly. I’m sorry but this place just doesn’t give me that same feeling. It’s nothing personal.
I’m going to spam the thread with cute animal pictures now. If that is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
Corgi!
Kitten!
Like I’ve been telling my sister regarding guys you date (or often even before you go on a date with them) and then they do/say something really stupid or creepy and then text you nonstop. Keep ignoring them; they always give up eventually.
Dogs in a photobooth!
Then why it is used to justify the oppression of women?
But I oppose the (formal) oppression of women. I’m against democracy in principle but as long as men are allowed to vote, women should be allowed to as well. Women should have the right to work and own property as well.
My issue with Feminism is the idea that women are equal to men and that men should respect them. Women are inferior to men and are not worthy of respect.
Hey, has anyone seen the latest Dr Who?
Gur ovt rzbgvbany pbzcnavba qrcnegher fprarf qba’g hfhnyyl qb nyy gung zhpu sbe zr, ohg V trahvaryl grnerq hc bire guvf bar.
@Kiwi girl – He’s just an all-around jewel. It’s a shame Otis won’t enlist – he’d get a battlefield commission in six months and have the whole U.S. Army straightened out by the midterm elections! Unless he got a minority or – gasp! – female drill sergeant. Then all bets are off.
But what would I know? I’m a useless little buttercup who wasted two years of her life being PC window dressing.
I don’t know if I can withstand the heartbreak. I really don’t.
Cute cats with oddly short legs:
@ Kiwi Girl
Yep, that’s it, hand in your passport. No, I jest. I like cricket too… Hell I love almost every sport with a system of scoring. cept golf.
I don’t really have it in me to participate in the MRA-shaming tonight. I wish I could chat with y’all. If any of you have AIM or twitter, this is my username there too.
I have gchat too but I’m not giving that out in public 😛
anyway here is my brainbleach contribution
ok one thing
Otis
did you really just admit that you are for the informal oppression of women (you scumbag)?
b/c pretty much you are terrible.
Puppylicious!
Okay, it’s been a difficult week, so even though it’s only a little after 10 PM for me, I am going to sleep. I look forward to seeing how you either (a) totally ignore racist troll, or (b) amusingly bat around racist troll.
My contribution is… the best Dr Who was and always will be Tom Baker, and I am now about 10% of the way through the scarf version in this story: http://whatinthewho.livejournal.com/3175.html
This kitty reminds me of one of my doggies who used to play with raindrops in puddles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Ha0D-iuVk&feature=player_embedded
So the MRM believes that >Women are inferior to men and are not worthy of respect.
Yet the MRAs invest tremendous amounts of energy into proving they’re a legitimate human rights organization and not a mere hate group.
Their hamsters must be exhausted from spinning so much.
By the way, that’s animal cruelty.
Our kitty has come out from her nearly perpetual hiding place under the bed, which she only does when the boys are asleep. Smart cat. 🙂