{"id":35796,"date":"2013-05-24T08:09:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T12:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35796"},"modified":"2013-05-24T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:33:27","slug":"military-culture-encourages-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35796","title":{"rendered":"Military culture encourages sexual harassment?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stars & Stripes<\/a> does some navel gazing today about sexual harassment in the military, and, apparently the conclusion that we should arrive at is that the military needs to be feminized. Of course, they talk to morons like Phil Carter, one of the founding members of IAVA who went on to work for the Obama Administration as their chief of detainee affairs. He was fired from that job, too.<\/p>\n

Phillip Carter, director of the Center for a New American Security\u2019s Military, Veterans and Society Program and a former military police and civil affairs officer in the Army, said a testosterone-charged culture is to be expected in any organization of young, athletic men, but that leaders must focus that energy in positive ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe military gives an elite status to the infantry in part because it had to in order to incentivize people to serve there,\u201d Carter said. The Army gives infantry soldiers a blue cord to wear with their uniform to show their status and \u201cencourages a certain amount of pride and chest-thumping.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is also some rivalry between services and between specialties in the services, Carter said \u2014 the feeling that, for instance, \u201canyone who\u2019s not at the tip of the spear is, in their view, a little bit less of a Marine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter said he countered some of the rivalry by focusing on team-building, \u201cso that the men in our units would see themselves as on the same team as the women in their units.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter also expected women \u201cto shoot as well, run as far and do everything they were required to do, regardless of their sex.<\/p>\n

\u201cDifferent standards contribute to tension within the ranks, and allowing women into combat will only succeed to the extent that everyone is held to the same standard,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, i guess the solution to the sexual harassment problem is that we should lower the physical and proficiency standards for men, so they won’t be jealous of women. Never you mind that those standards save lives in combat. It’s more important that we force social experiments on the troops and totally disregard that their job is to survive combat and insure that the enemy doesn’t survive.<\/p>\n

I’ve worked with women and never felt a need to sexually harass them. I expected those in my charge to perform at the same standard as their male peers. Usually, they did. Most of the men in the military treat women as equals without trolling social media to post disrespectful comments about them. Women who come to this forum are treated respectfully without enduring much more harassment than we men endure from each other. <\/p>\n

The problem is that the people who don’t understand military service are trying force the military to eat a shit sandwich of social experimentation which isn’t compatible with military service. <\/p>\n

Carter is so intellectually vacant on the subject, he even blames the infantry blue cord for encouraging sexual harassment. I guess he thinks that the military should just give a blue cord to everyone in the Army and that would fix everything. The Marines don’t give out blue cords, so explain that, Phil. Dingus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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