There is apparently an immunity to cognitive dissonance going around, caused by poor education and lack of critical thinking skills.

Id risk it.

If it were just her, perhaps.

Sad thing is, they cant assess the risk, because no one wants to admit there is a problem. Finding out you are well and truly in the company of people who could care less about you or the constitution they pledged to uphold after you sign the contract and are serving in an sctive unit is way too late. Not all…

A military is not needed if there is no need to defend oneself from aggression. In other words, only when there is no one threatening your physical safety, or anyone elses. In other words, never. Humans are violent. You can either accept that one needs to adopt violence in defense, or wait to be killed, because sooner…

As with the lrivate sector, turnover costs are not formally considered. Expedient, discreet resolution of problems is. Investigations of sexual assault are challenging for anyone, even assuming a dispassionate, unbiased juducial process - which the UCMJ is not by even its own standards.

The problem is the participants, frankly. There is a preconception of what someone who joins the military is ‘like’ and that can become a self-selection bias.

I an a Marine vet (89-95). This was a problem back then, and it is the reason why now, when people ask me if I would ever want my son or daughter to join the military, as my family has done for four generations, I say ‘hell no’ and keep my medals hidden in a box. Because a military that holds its own members in…

One of the side effects of the last two decades of republican party implosion and descent into incoherent idiocy is the incredibly low bar for mockery.

It isnt a mirror.

Im with Albert. Without connection to a woman, a disembodied breast or genitalia are... Disconcerting.

Look at it this way - there are many many many more ways for guys to let you know they are Mr. Wrong now than there used to be. This is one of them. Consider it one of the orange cones of the dating highway.

I dont know if they are specifically working with these women, but Plan International does a ton of good work with women and children, especially young girls, to try and stop trafficking, etc.

Raised same. What struck me years later was just how wacky Catholic doctrine is even when taken on its own terms, and how little of the doctrine is actually taught in Sunday school. The church literally does not even try to explain to the sheep in the flock where the beliefs and practices came from. Just obey!

No worries. Just glad you didnt type the number in question.

Apologies, I was not clear.

You know, I first heard the term Feminazi when I was in the Marines and a dittohead I worked with listened to That Effing Show at work, where I had to hear it. Every day. That was 1992. Today, for the first time, I was called one... And I am gonna put it on a T-shirt and wear it.

Lets meet halfway - a black hole swallows all evidence of the Green Lantern film, plus Ryan Reynolds agent.

See how fast those things go south? Lose the scare quotes and suddenly the rumors start flying...

If the likes of Ryan Reynolds gets Deadpool after Green Lantern, MJB deserves AT LEAST this.