{"id":30207,"date":"2012-06-01T17:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30207"},"modified":"2012-06-01T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T21:15:24","slug":"boobie-twits-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30207","title":{"rendered":"Boobie twits silenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

You remember Terran Echegoyen-McCabe and her friend Christina Luna who we discussed yesterday<\/a> and their poster campaign to promote breast feeding in uniform. Well, it seems that they are members of the Washington Air National Guard which compounds the idiocy of their cause. How often will a guardsman need to breast feed in uniform? It appears that their commanders have come to that same conclusion and told the two to shut up about it, according to the Spokesman-Review<\/a>;<\/p>\n

[Capt. Keith Kosik, state public affairs officer for the Washington National Guard] emphasized that the issue is not about breast-feeding in uniform.
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Rather, he said, military regulations prohibit the use of the \u201cuniform, title, rank or military affiliation to further a cause, promote a product or imply an endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the press coverage that\u2019s out there right now, it has been misconstrued as a battle against breast-feeding,\u201d he said Thursday. \u201cIt leads one to believe they are being persecuted for breast-feeding. The fact is they\u2019re not being persecuted. The fact is breast-feeding was never an issue for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The military has no rules specifically regarding public breast-feeding while in uniform. The real issue is that servicemen and -women are not allowed to use the uniform to further a civilian cause, Kosik said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our frenemy, Adam Weinstein of Mother Jones<\/a> couldn’t wait to make the military look like a pack of Neanderthals beating our chests over the outrageous photos of boobies. After quoting a female Marine who said that she wanted her Marines to see as nothing more than Marine, Weinstein puffs out his feminist chest-bone;<\/p>\n

The commenter assumes, of course, that the appropriate archetypal image of a Marine is sexless. (Or, at least, boobless.) Which leads to another assumption: that there’s something inherently sexual about a woman nourishing a child with breast milk. Neither of those assumptions holds. No one is asexual (least of all Marines, at least in my experience), and no nursing mother should have to accept a cultural taboo that marks her as a sex object for doing what comes naturally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder how many Marines would agree that their mission in the greater scheme of things like national security is sexual. It was always my impression that women (and gays, because somehow Weinstein equates breast feeding to the recent repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy) wanted to be equals with men. We integrated women in the services, we quit booting them when they got pregnant in my early years of service because they claimed that they only wanted to be in the military and serve alongside men (and then, straights). <\/p>\n

Service in the military isn’t about sex, Adam, well, at least it wasn’t while I was in the infantry. We were more concerned with battle drills, weapons maintenance and physical conditioning. All of this other crap is ancillary cultural bullshit. It looks to me like the social engineers are just trying to turn the military into one long high school lunch period or college dorms instead of the life-taking, destructive force that is supposed to defend us from foreign and domestic enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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