{"id":143978,"date":"2023-07-08T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=143978"},"modified":"2023-07-06T21:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T01:30:50","slug":"saturday-updates-recruiters-military-drag-revisionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=143978","title":{"rendered":"Saturday updates – Recruiters, Military Drag revisionism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remember the Navy saying it would be requiring its recruiters to work six-day weeks in an effort to make recruiting numbers? Well, that lasted… a whole week.<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday, the service confirmed that Rear Adm. Alexis Walker — the head of Navy Recruiting Command — gave the order to go to a six-day schedule after emails announcing the change began to surface on social media. But on Friday, the Navy said that Walker’s boss “issued a pause” on the plan.<\/p>\n

Capt. Jodie Cornell, a spokeswoman for Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman, the chief of naval personnel and Walker’s boss\u2019 boss, said that Cheeseman put the move on hold “as the Navy is committed to providing a work-life balance for our personnel.”<\/p>\n

Many of the memes and comments posted after the policy became public were simply criticisms of Walker’s decision. One comment on Reddit said the extra hours weren’t “gonna change anything” and called the move “ridiculous and a waste of good people.” Others portrayed Cheeseman as a hero for stepping in and publicly overriding a subordinate officer.<\/p>\n

Included in the initial social media posts were images that suggested the Navy was also considering ordering sailors slated for recruiting duty to report to their new posts six months early and keeping recruiters already serving in place for an extra year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s see…high stress duty that most have to be ORDERED to accept – let’s make it a longer assignment and increase the hours and<\/em> stress. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n

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And Military Times is running a piece claiming that shows in World War II in which men dressed as women were actually LGBTQ-friendly events in which alternate-sex folks could be their “true gender” temporarily.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military has a rather lengthy history when it comes to drag shows, particularly during World War II, when cross dress events were not only sanctioned by the Army, but celebrated as a boon for morale. Because the armed forces were officially segregated by sex until 1948, there was little choice for any service member theater production but to employ men as women.<\/p>\n

The World War II-era shows, which featured men dressed as women, not only provided a platform for troops to decompress during a time of stressful conflict but furnished a safe space for members of the gay community who were clandestinely serving as well, according to New York University New School professor Joe E. Jeffreys, a drag historian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n

I sense a bit of projection on said historian’s part… having seen similar events in all-male establishments like sex-segregated high schools, the main audience reaction to boys dressing as girls was laughter. I, of course, would not suggest that is still the main reaction nowadays in a much more sensitive, enlightened world… would I?<\/p>\n

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