The latest hot take on women in the military, courtesy of the Men’s Rights subreddit:
They’re “inferior soldiers for obvious reasons?” What “obvious reasons?”
Because they’ll sneak away in the middle of a firefight to have a tea party with their dollies? No, that’s little girls (and someĀ boys),Ā not adult women.
Because they can only live for a limited amount of time out of water? Oh, wait, that’s goldfish.
Because they’ll poke too many holes in their uniforms and possibly in other soldiers as well? No, that’s porcupines.
Because they’reĀ 1,300,000 times the size of earth? No, that’s the sun.
Oh, wait, it has something to do with shoes, right? Women love shoes!
And if the whole shoe thing isn’t enough, we should definitely kick women out because when they engage in prohibited sexual activity, that’s totally their fault and not at all the fault of the guys having sex with them, and also because when a really cute women has sex with some dude it might make some other dudeĀ feel sad because that ungrateful slutĀ should really be breaking military rules with meĀ and not that dickhead Tony who thinks he’s so cool, but somehow Tony himself isn’t at fault, because I dunno, he’s basically all right, a real solid dude, when you think about it, he can’t help itĀ that women are always throwing themselves at him, man I wish I were more like Tony.
Huh. So if we’re going to start tossing people out of the army for making other people upset, should we toss all people of color out of the military because some white solders are racist?
If there’s some soldier who really hates standing in line at the mess hall, should we kick everyone standing in front of him out of the army?
And if we’re preemptively tossing whole groups of people out for hypothetical things they might possibly do, why not toss gay men out of the military (again) because they might get someĀ of those tiny yappy dogs — I mean, gay guys love those tiny yappy dogs, right? — and these tiny yappy dogs might chew through the wires of some really important piece of equipment? (Wouldn’t that make a great comedy? Email me if you want to buy the movie rights to this paragraph.)
Hell, I’m pretty sure everyone on planet Earth has the capacity to make some other person on Earth feel bad or suffer inconvenience, so let’s just toss everyone out of the military just in case.
I should point out that not everyone in the Men’s Rights subreddit agrees withĀ ABunchofTards here. Indeed, the top response to his comment comes from a subreddit regular, blueoak9, who declares that the assumption that women are naturally terrible soldiers
is insulting. It insults the women I served with which means it insults me.Ā There were women who were shit soldiers, and men too, but it had nothing to do with their gender or how people interacted with them.
And as for all that “love triangle” nonsense,Ā blueoak9 informs Mr. Tards that women in the armed forces are actually very stinky.
I have news for you – human females smell about as intensely as human males; it’s just a feature of the species – and after a few days in the field they get pretty unappetizing, so all this rumpy-humpy you are imagining is pure fantasy. I never observed any of it. I’m sure it happened, but it was rare and surreptitious.
And besides, when this, er, rumpy=humpy does happen, you’ll get some too because these gals will have sex with pretty much anyone.
[A]s for not having your buddy’s back because you are somehow jealous of him – that’s a rather civilian perspective. Much more likely is telling him it’s your turn next. A lot of women get a lot of dick in the Army; it’s a perk of service.
So there you have it. Women are terrible soldiers except when they aren’t, and they will have lots of sex except when they don’t but even when they don’t they do.
I’m glad the fellows on the Men’s Rights subreddit were able to resolve this issue peacefully.
UPDATE: In case you’re wondering about the illustration I used for this post, you can read about the artist here. It was used as the cover of a men’s adventure magazine in 1971.
H/T — r/AgainstMensRights
Oh, blueoak9, you started off so well …..
He’ll never know because he will never enlist.
One day we’re horrible for not going to war and sacrificing our live like teh menz.
The next day we’re horrible for saying we should have the right to go to war and sacrifice our lives like teh menz.
It’s almost like no matter what women do, MRAs will hate us!
A BunchofTards should explain his…theory to Ruth Westheimer who was wounded as a scout and sniper during the Israeli War of Independence.
@weirwoodtreehugger – are you implying that we can’t win with MRAs? *gasp*
Forgot to add this in my previous comment due to over-excitement (probably).
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/the-four-predictably-basic-moves-of-mens-rights-activists-20160211-gmri2v.html
It’s an article by Aust. feminist Clem Ford (a week old now, but hey) and wow the four predictable moves of MRAs she describes are spookily familiar – no doubt to anyone who frequents this blog.
Can MRAs literally not imagine any circumstance where men and women can be together without f*cking going on? Is that idea just too radical for their tiny manbaby minds to grasp?
You mean males and females can coexist in a space without constantly humping each other nonstop? *gasp!* Impossible!
/sarcasm (if it wasn’t obvious)
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/2016/02/18/southern-poverty-law-center-republican-party-is-now-a-hate-group-2/
Off topic, but breaking news a lot of people here might be interested in.
@ authorialAlchemy
Yeah, I just heard about that on Democratic Underground. You know what they say: if the shoe fits. And the shoe definitely fits…
Mish: OMG, that was glorious snarking behind that link, I truly bow to that.
Da fuq did I just read?
And check out that dude in the thread standing up for women in the military. Who wants to take bets he’ll be called a “white knight mangina beta cuck” before his keyboard grows cold?
I get the feeling these guys are pissed because they’ll have one less weapon to bash women with, should Selective Service be instituted for women, also.
After all, that’s one of the complaints I hear: “Women don’t have to sign for SS when they turn 18! MEN ARE OPPRESSED!”
Never mind that feminists have been advocating for that for *years*.
So now it becomes “They’ll distract the menfolk with their slutty ways! Just another way women will get us killed! FEMENISTS WANT US ALL DEAD!”
Seriously? Jeez.
Skiriki, Clem Ford is brilliant. She’s been through so much shite (hateful abusive trolls plus death threats) but she continues to produce ‘glorious snarking’ (as you beautifully put it), and smart commentary.
Glad you liked š
Why do talks about “unit cohesion” always seem to favor the individuals causing the problem? Ha ha, I’m kidding. I know the answer.
There are women serving in militaries all over the world. If this was going to be an issue, it would already be an issue. It would be well known and understood.
I’m reminded of all of the doomsday predictions that came from the US right wing when don’t ask, don’t tell was in the process of being repealed. Here they were, telling us about all the chaos that would ensue if LGBT people were permitted to openly serve, apparently without considering that there were LGBT people serving openly all over the globe without creating the problems they were predicting. Except it’s even worse, because there are women serving in the US.
Tessa,
Seriously. If white cishet dudes can’t handle working with people who look just like them – not that that’s even true, but just for the sake of argument – then perhaps the military should be entirely women, people of color, and LGBT people?
It should be noted that way too many women, and men, are sexually assaulted in the military.
Not gonna lie, I kind of want to read the book the picture is from.
how to effectively take part in the MRA subreddit:
Katz: the artist is Basil Gogos.
http://www.basilgogos.net/
This weenie assumes that all men are resentful when other men have sex. Only the pathetic ones are.
Well, blueoak9 ain’t lying about the effect of the field environment on human body odor. Not that it would stop anyone if they really wanted to do it. More likely it would be the exhaustion, which makes even a good fap in the porta-johns too much effort for all but the horniest of Privates. That, and I’m pretty sure the women who enlist are getting exactly as much dick as they would be on the outside (exception being SHARP incidents, obviously), at least in garrison. It’s not like being forced to do pushups in mixed company is some kind of aphrodisiac.
So, Mr Blueoak. Women get lots of D in the army – a “perk” right?
But but all the rumpy humpy** is a fantasy and you’re not actually aware of any of it going on.
So which is it?
**Did that phrase just surf in on a time vortex from a bad 70s? sit com?
So women shouldn’t be allowed in the military because men are petulant children who will refuse to do their jobs if they don’t get their own way? Seems legit.
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Because women and men have to have sex with each other when put in the same place for enough time right hahaa I know nothing. That’s all I hear.