Pentagon To Announce Equal Benefits For Married Gay Couples

[bigrebnc1775]

What's that? Calling gay people faggots? Is that morals to you?

Hell fucking yes they are what they are faggots is the correct term.

They are a bundle of sticks?

Let me spell it out for you

fag·got 2 (fgt)
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Hell fucking yes they are what they are faggots is the correct term.

They are a bundle of sticks?

Let me spell it out for you

fag·got 2 (fgt)
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

Or, if in Europe, a "fag" is a cigarette. Hell, come to think of it,when I was a kid "fags" were cigarettes here, too.

Come to think of it, Most radio and television comedies were referred to as "That Gay and hilariously funny......"

Damn gays....Taking over our language....


Nowadays, I just refer to them as perverts. Sort of covers the entire gamut....

 

[OriginalShroom]

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The questions are ridiculed because they're ridiculous.

You showered with the same gays but you could remain blissfully ignorant of that fact.

So let's examine the issue in a rational way. The cultural norm in this country has always been: men shower with men, and women shower with women. It is unusual, even for opposite sex couples, married or otherwise, to shower together as a part of normal, daily life (excepting when it's part of sexual play). This means that it's quite rare for men to shower with women, but extremely common for men to shower with other men, and women to shower with other women. Thus gay men have been showering with straight men all along; and lesbians have been showering with straight women. To a gay man or woman, it's not a unique situation to shower with someone of the same gender. Consequently, instances of ogling, misbehavior and harassment are relatively rare. Reducing this fact to a sound bite, the gay servicemember would say, "Been there, done that, no big deal."

For a heterosexual man, however, showering with a woman would be considered a rare treat, indeed. Straight men can readily identify their own sexual interest in that situation and thus project that interest onto gay guys. After all, the thinking goes, men are men. Thus the heterosexual serviceman assumes that the gay serviceman will have the same interest in him as he would in a woman in the shower. He doesn't consider the reality of the situation that gay men have been in showers with other men their whole lives and don't necessarily find it titillating. Even more to the point, the heterosexual serviceman has likely been in the shower with gay guys, too, both in the military and before he joined the military. If he understands DADT (which few do), he would know both the law and DoD regulations say the gay guy can be in the shower with him. They not only have been in the shower with him, but there hasn't been a problem.[...]

n a more practical level, open showers in the military are fairly uncommon these days. A recent Palm Center/University of California poll (conducted by Zogby International) of combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan found that 71% of the troops always or usually showered privately, whereas only 8% always or usually showered in groups. Additionally, The timing of a shower is often discretionary. So if a heterosexual service member is concerned about taking a shower with a gay guy, he/she can take the shower when the known or suspected gay member is not there. Taking this latter tact even further, one might facetiously argue that someone who is "uncomfortable" in the presence of gays would want gays to be able to serve openly so that they'd know exactly whom to avoid in the shower.

Gays in the Shower, Oh My!

Actually, we knew who most of the gays were. When we had the communal showers no one would shower if they were in the shower. When given a gay roommate, it was easier to get them moved.

Working with gays is one thing. As long as they did their job, no problem. But sharing living quarters and showers with one? No fricking way.

You had been showering and living with them, now you just know it.

It's been over a decade now in some countries and over a year in ours. Where are all these "problems" y'all were sure were going to materialize?

While it was not addressed publically, it was accidently released that nearly half of the unwanted sexual advance complaints filed in the mlitary came from men last year.

While some may have been about women making advances on men, I have a feeling that a large number of those complaints were about gay men making advances on straight men.

 

[OriginalShroom]

I found one of the few articles published on it..

And since the source is the New York Times, you can't claim the source is Right Wing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/u...-assault-men-are-overlooked-victims.html?_r=0

But in a debate that has focused largely on women, this fact is often overlooked: the majority of service members who are sexually assaulted each year are men.

In its latest report on sexual assault, the Pentagon estimated that 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, up from 19,000 in 2010. Of those cases, the Pentagon says, 53 percent involved attacks on men, mostly by other men.

“It’s easy for some people to single out women and say: ‘There’s a small percentage of the force having this problem,’ ” said First Lt. Adam Cohen, who said he was raped by a superior officer. “No one wants to admit this problem affects everyone. Both genders, of all ranks. It’s a cultural problem.”

 

[Seawytch]

I found one of the few articles published on it..

And since the source is the New York Times, you can't claim the source is Right Wing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/u...-assault-men-are-overlooked-victims.html?_r=0

But in a debate that has focused largely on women, this fact is often overlooked: the majority of service members who are sexually assaulted each year are men.

In its latest report on sexual assault, the Pentagon estimated that 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, up from 19,000 in 2010. Of those cases, the Pentagon says, 53 percent involved attacks on men, mostly by other men.

“It’s easy for some people to single out women and say: ‘There’s a small percentage of the force having this problem,’ ” said First Lt. Adam Cohen, who said he was raped by a superior officer. “No one wants to admit this problem affects everyone. Both genders, of all ranks. It’s a cultural problem.”

Sexual assault is a problem, not a gay or straight problem. Tea bagging is a common hazing practice that would constitute unwanted sexual contact. When it happened on my ship, it wasn't the gay guys doing it.


Spelling errors courtesy of auto-correct

 

[Wacky Quacky]

I found one of the few articles published on it..

And since the source is the New York Times, you can't claim the source is Right Wing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/u...-assault-men-are-overlooked-victims.html?_r=0

But in a debate that has focused largely on women, this fact is often overlooked: the majority of service members who are sexually assaulted each year are men.

In its latest report on sexual assault, the Pentagon estimated that 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, up from 19,000 in 2010. Of those cases, the Pentagon says, 53 percent involved attacks on men, mostly by other men.

“It’s easy for some people to single out women and say: ‘There’s a small percentage of the force having this problem,’ ” said First Lt. Adam Cohen, who said he was raped by a superior officer. “No one wants to admit this problem affects everyone. Both genders, of all ranks. It’s a cultural problem.”

From your own link:

Many sexual assaults on men in the military seem to be a form of violent hazing or bullying, said Roger Canaff, a former New York State prosecutor who helped train prosecutors on the subject of military sexual assault for the Pentagon. “The acts seemed less sexually motivated than humiliation or torture-motivated,” he said.