Some douchebag organization that calls itself Miller-McCune takes up the “Gender Justice” issue with it’s focus on the “Gender Justice Conference” at West Point. it turns out to be nothing more than poisoning the well of future officers with unsubstantiated blather;
Speakers at the two-day Gender Justice conference — hosted by the West Point Center for the Rule of Law — tackled a tight range of sober topics, and the Friday morning speaker presented the results of three years of research about a particularly troubling subject: rape and gender inequality in the military.
According to her research, said Helen Benedict, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and author of the book The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, 1 in 3 women in the U.S. military is raped by another service member.
yeah, you know where they got that “1-in-3″‘ number? From some broke-dick survey in which they polled every woman who worn a uniform since the Vietnam War and got responses from less than 1% of the women they polled. We’ve discussed this poll before. Don’t you think that if you were not a victim of violent treatment at the hands of fellow soldiers, you’d be less likely to respond to an obvious cheap shot at those same soldiers?
Benedict is a novelist and short story fiction writer who stumbled upon this survey and decided to make it a work of her own brand of fiction. And now she’s taking it on the road to the service academies to poison the minds of future officers. At the behest of those same service academies. What possible contribution could a band of 50 cadets have to add to this travesty of research? They’ve never served in the military and their experience is solely at the academic level.
Mickiela Montoya, one of the female Iraq veterans Benedict interviewed for the book, explained her experience of men’s treatment of women in the military: “There are three things they’ll let you be: A bitch, a ho or a dyke. You’re a bitch if you won’t sleep with them; you’re a ho if you have only one boyfriend; and you’re a dyke if you don’t like them.”
Yeah, that sounds just like how I treated women who I encountered in the military. Well, except that I also treated them with respect they wouldn’t ordinarily get from their college classmates and respect for their rank and experience. And i was in the infantry – the branch that’s supposed to be the most misogynistic because it excludes women. The biggest “boys’ club”.
And, oh, by the way, the Geezers For Sitting On Our hands have embraced Benedict’s “research” as a part of their anti-recruiter campaign. So WTF is she doing at West Point? Who’s next? Cindy Sheehan?
