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Offline ChuckJ

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She doesn't have a DU name
« on: May 15, 2015, 09:12:55 PM »
I admit that this isn't directly DU related. I don't even know if the letter is real. The article (see link at bottom) refers to the letter writer 'alleged'. Even if it is fake I'll have fall back on the ole DU "fake but accurate" meme. I've posted it here because I know the DUmmies lurk and I think this letter contains some things that the DU women, both male and female, should see.

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Dear SARC,

I got up this morning as an Airman in the United States Air Force. I got up and I put on my uniform, I pulled back my hair, I looked in the mirror and an Airman looked back. A strong, confident military professional stared out of my bathroom mirror, and I met her eyes with pride. Then I came to your briefing. I came to your briefing and I listened to you talk to me, at times it seemed directly to me, about sexual assault. You talked about a lot of things, about rivers and bridges, you talked about saving people and victimization. In fact you talked for almost a full ninety minutes, and you disgusted me.

You made me a victim today, and I am nobody’s victim. I am an American Airman in the most powerful Air Force in the world, and you made me into a helpless whore. A sensitive, defenseless woman who has no power to protect herself, who has nothing in common with the men she works with. You made me untouchable, and by doing that you made me a target. You gave me a transparent parasol, called it an umbrella and told me to stand idly by while you placed everything from rape to inappropriate shoulder brushes in a crowded hallway underneath it. You put my face up on your slides; my face, my uniform, my honor, and you made me hold this ridiculous contraption of your own devising and called me empowered. You called me strong. You told me, and everyone else who was listening to you this morning that I had a right to dictate what they said. That I had a right to dictate what they looked at. That I had a right to dictate what they listened to. That somehow, in my shop, I was the only person who mattered. That they can’t listen to the radio because they might play the Beatles, or Sir Mix-A-Lot, and that I might be offended. That if someone plays a Katy Perry song, I might have flashbacks to a night where I made a bad decision. I might be hurt, and I’m fragile right? Of course I am, you made me that way.

You are the reason I room alone when I deploy. You are the reason that wives are terrified that their husbands are cheating on them when they leave, and I leave with them. When I walk into a room and people are laughing and having a good time, you are the reason they take one look at me and either stop talking or leave. They’re afraid. They’re afraid of me, and it’s because of you. They are afraid that with all of this “power” I have, I can destroy them. They will never respect me or the power and the authority I have as a person, or the power I have as an Airman, because I am nothing more than a victim. That I as a victim, somehow I control their fate. With one sentence, I can destroy the rest of their lives.

“He sexually assaulted me.”

I say enough. He didn’t assault me, you did; and I say enough is enough. If you want to help me, you need to stop calling me a victim. If you want to save me, you need to help me to be equal in the eyes of the people I work with. If you want to change a culture, you need to lessen the gap between men and women, not widen it. Women don’t need their own set of rules: physical training scores, buildings, rooms, raters, sponsors, deployment buddies. When I can only deploy with another woman ‘buddy’ you are telling me and the people around me that I can’t take care of myself. When you forbid me from going into my male friends room to play X-Box on a deployment with the other people on my shift, you isolate me. When you isolate me, you make me a target. When you make me a target, you make me a victim. You don’t make me equal, you make me hated. If I am going to be hated, it will be because of who I am, not because of who you have made me. I am not a victim. I am an American Airman, I am a Warrior, and I have answered my nation’s call.

Help me be what I am, or be quiet and get out of my way.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/05/15/alleged-female-airman-goes-off-in-scathing-letter-about-sexual-harassment-training-you-disgust-me-and-made-me-into-a-helpless-whore/
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Re: She doesn't have a DU name
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2015, 09:18:24 PM »
So the twat is claiming to be a victim, because the brass has declared that men need to be aware of being accused of sexual assault?
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Re: She doesn't have a DU name
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2015, 09:31:52 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 15, 2015, 09:18:24 PM
So the twat is claiming to be a victim, because the brass has declared that men need to be aware of being accused of sexual assault?

I took away something completely different from it. That women shouldn't be given special treatment and that regulations shouldn't be changed for women.
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Re: She doesn't have a DU name
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2015, 10:05:40 PM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on May 15, 2015, 09:31:52 PM
I took away something completely different from it. That women shouldn't be given special treatment and that regulations shouldn't be changed for women.

You could be right. When women get on a rant it's hard to follow sometimes.  :-)
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Re: She doesn't have a DU name
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2015, 10:51:42 PM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on May 15, 2015, 09:31:52 PM
I took away something completely different from it. That women shouldn't be given special treatment and that regulations shouldn't be changed for women.

That's the way I read it.
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Re: She doesn't have a DU name
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2015, 10:52:43 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 15, 2015, 09:18:24 PM
So the twat is claiming to be a victim, because the brass has declared that men need to be aware of being accused of sexual assault?

I think you completely misread that one.
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Re: She doesn't have a DU name
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2015, 01:11:32 PM »
Quote from: 98ZJUSMC on May 15, 2015, 10:51:42 PM
That's the way I read it.

Me too.  I very much agree she was exposing a very real problem in our military.  Minorities and females have to be treated with undue deference any time they are within earshot since they can end your career with a minor complaint.  The ones who wish to stand on their own merits (the vast majority) have to suffer the results of these policies along with the WASP males.  Policies requiring  guarded day to day interactions, and ridiculous reverse discrimination in training and performance standards is making a mess of our military.
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Re: She doesn't have a DU name
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2015, 05:28:50 PM »
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Minorities and females have to be treated with undue deference any time they are within earshot since they can end your career with a minor complaint. 

Coming soon to society in general...wait already here. And I for one have just about had enough.
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Re: She doesn't have a DU name
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2015, 10:22:28 PM »
Quote from: Bad Dog on May 16, 2015, 01:11:32 PM
Me too.  I very much agree she was exposing a very real problem in our military.  Minorities and females have to be treated with undue deference any time they are within earshot since they can end your career with a minor complaint.  The ones who wish to stand on their own merits (the vast majority) have to suffer the results of these policies along with the WASP males.  Policies requiring  guarded day to day interactions, and ridiculous reverse discrimination in training and performance standards is making a mess of our military.

Hi5, and I agree completely. Plus it takes power from the NCO's and gives it straight to Joe. Now all they have to do if they don't want to do something is say they were sexually harassed and file an unrestricted report, and the NCO support channel has to stop what they are doing IMMEDIATELY and get the SARC involved.

I've heard of this happening, barracks lawyers are using this as a loophole to get out of punishment. It's not effective, as it just delays punishment, but it completely destroys the NCO's power base.

In my opinion, this is a symptom of PC B.S. run amok. We don't have the ability to be an NCO anymore. That was sacrificed on the altar of political correctnes . Now we are just 'managers' making due the best we can with a shitty situation.
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Re: She doesn't have a DU name
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2015, 11:17:07 PM »
Quote from: Bad Dog on May 16, 2015, 01:11:32 PM

Minorities and females have to be treated with undue deference any time they are within earshot since they can end your career with a minor complaint.   


There is nothing more powerful in our military than a minority who knows how to work a grievance claim.
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