They would freak the fuck out because fucking queers are ruining the reputation of the Marines! How dare they!! Then they would try to bring back Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, as if people can magically unknow things...There would also be bashing. Lots of bashing and honestly, someone would probably be killed. Sad to say.

Just like if pics of the male Marines were passed around between a group of gay men, it would be the gays’ fault, not the Marines. But I guarantee you’d see a much different reaction.

Whether or not any of them sent naked photos to someone shouldn’t matter. Doing so is not an open invitation to have them shared &/or ridiculed

Wives, girlfriends and exes were included in the sharing so good for them. Not owning the uniform doesn’t mean you should feel left out. /s

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So, discipline is not something they teach or expect in the military.

Ugh. I always hate bringing this up because they’re not/shouldn’t be held as a “good example” for anything, really, but fucking Soviet Russia under Stalin had a fully integrated fighting force of men and women. Granted, it was due in part to Stalin’s total lack of regard for any human life but still. They did it. And…

Actually, on that note, there’s a web comic geared towards Marines called “Terminal Lance,” that shows up on my news feed (not a Marine, just have a few acquaintances who are/were). One commentor posted “So when will they [the victims] be punished for taking nudes?”

Thankfully, the guy who does the comic replied with…

This, especially coming from sister Marines, is what has been the most hurtful. The rest of it comes as no surprise. I got shown a compilation of explicit photos/videos of service women while in the combat theater in Iraq back in 2005 ffs. By my superior at that. One of my Marine girlfriends and I were talking about…

Why is it when we talk about male hormones it’s all “Boys will be boys” but when we talk about women’s hormones, it’s all “PMSing irrational bitches”?

I... don’t think she understands what the word reactionary means.

Then it would be treated like the crime it is and literally every male Marine would be in hysterics about it.

I wonder what the response would be if it were males who were being photographed naked by other males?

Yeah I would think that, I don’t know, becoming a Marine is perhaps more difficult than just, like, not raping people? Or posting pictures on the internet without their consent? One of those involves a really high level of skill, dedication, mental fortitude, and physical fitness and the other......literally requires…

“Nineteen-year-old males everywhere are from Mars. They, and their early twenty-something brethren, are overloaded with testosterone, supremely confident about their invincibility, and prone to illogical antics.”

Or the workforce. I mean. It’s gross everywhere. Not this gross, but yeah.

This selflessness is derived from bonding, and bonding from shared events and the unquestioning subordination of self for the good of the team. But what destroys this alchemy — and, therefore, combat effectiveness — are pettiness, rumor-mongering, suspicion, and jealousy. And when fighting spirit is lessoned, death is…

Welcome to the dark side of the moon. The place people go when you see how stacked things are against just being fucking decent to people.

I am openly hostile now to the parents of my peers that made me hate myself as a child. Small town civility and all that other bullshit can go fuck themselves!

Does anyone else feel that your comprehension has changed dramatically regarding America and how you fit into it? My anger will not subside and quite frankly I feel much better about it. As a gay man I will no longer tolerate nor hold out any hope that this virulent, disgusting and capitalistic country, rotten to its…