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#602 Oct 11 2011 at 1:36 PM Rating: Default
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Eske Esquire wrote:
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Something about looking in showers [...] At this rate, DADT will be re-instated before 2012
Two unrelated topics.


But alas, in the swirling, incomprehensible mass of thought-like entities that populate Alma's brain, they are one-and-the-same. Incidentally, I think they float around in the part of his mind that he activates when he's trying to avoid confronting his own self-loathing and sexual inadequacy.

Sad, really.


I wasn't going to respond to this but, I can't get over the irony of saying "two unrelated scenarios" an then "self-loathing and sexual inadequacy". Really? Really? Really? What do those have to do with anything with DADT?
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You are correct. The justification was noted on post 206 and supported in the repeal of DADT.

The justification you provided there was extremely weak though. I suppose you thought "showers!" and "they could live together!" was good enough reason to deny someone their basic freedoms but I disagree and, more importantly, so did a majority of America and Congress.
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You mean the people who own the military by virtue of being citizens of the United States and thought your justifications were poor ones.
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Funny you mention that. We are currently going over Equal Opportunity and part of the discussion is the confirmed and confronted "peepers" in the male showers. The point was to tell us that we can't attack any guy that peeps us in the shower because we would be charged with an assault even if he touches our junk. I thought that was pretty funny.

Assuming this is true, we're either being asked to believe that these "peepers" signed up for the military and were shipped to Iraq within two week's time, that they've always been there but only started "peeping" within the last two weeks or that this anecdote is irrelevant to the larger debate.

I'll take Door #3, Bob.

I'm also skeptical that you're allowed to "touch" one another's "junk" in the shower without reprisal but maybe you guys were already friskier with one another than I suspected and this whole "Boo DADT repeal!" thing is a bit of a show for your parents.
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Just something else to point out because I'm bored.
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The point was to tell us that we can't attack any guy that peeps us in the shower because we would be charged with an assault even if he touches our junk. I thought that was pretty funny.
No you wouldn't, it would be self defense against a sexual assault. You're either lying or weren't paying attention at the briefing.
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#607 Oct 11 2011 at 2:42 PM Rating: Excellent
So... Alma is hoping that some poor guy gets acosted in the shower so DADT can be reinstated?

More and more I honestly wonder if Alma is truly enlisted...
#608 Oct 11 2011 at 2:58 PM Rating: Default
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Jophiel wrote:

The justification you provided there was extremely weak though. I suppose you thought "showers!" and "they could live together!" was good enough reason to deny someone their basic freedoms but I disagree and, more importantly, so did a majority of America and Congress.


You actually left out numerous paragraphs of reasons, but the reasons that you stated were all addressed in the repeal of DADT, so they couldn't have been that weak.

"The living conditions" were not focusing on the fact that they could live together and how that's discrimination on heterosexual couples. As a commander, I wouldn't authorize unmarried men and women living together in the barracks. I accept that discrimination as part of the military. The focus was that Jimmy the hetero shouldn't have to live with Timmy the ****. That was addressed.

The shower issue was also addressed by a Marine 4 star during the start of this. You all can live in denial about "Showers!" all you want, but the fact remains, that the concern is the same concern women have with showering with men. I acknowledge and accept the double standard, but when you all try to act like that there's a difference between the two scenarios, then you're simply in denial. I will argue against that just because it's wrong.

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You mean the people who own the military by virtue of being citizens of the United States and thought your justifications were poor ones.


No, I mean people who don't understand the foundation of the military and believes that this repeal removed discrimination as opposed to adding discrimination because the people who realized my justifications had to adjust current practices, by adding more discrimination, to please the ignoramuses who believed the military is all better now. Just like people thought we were out of Iraq when all we had done was transition missions. Even now we are "leaving Iraq", there will still be U.S. military presence, but if it makes you feel better that you think that you done something beneficial and positive, go pat yourself on the back. Civilians.... To think, I will be one once again in the future.....bitter sweet moment.
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Jophiel wrote:
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Funny you mention that. We are currently going over Equal Opportunity and part of the discussion is the confirmed and confronted "peepers" in the male showers. The point was to tell us that we can't attack any guy that peeps us in the shower because we would be charged with an assault even if he touches our junk. I thought that was pretty funny.

Assuming this is true, we're either being asked to believe that these "peepers" signed up for the military and were shipped to Iraq within two week's time, that they've always been there but only started "peeping" within the last two weeks or that this anecdote is irrelevant to the larger debate.

I'll take Door #3, Bob.

I'm also skeptical that you're allowed to "touch" one another's "junk" in the shower without reprisal but maybe you guys were already friskier with one another than I suspected and this whole "Boo DADT repeal!" thing is a bit of a show for your parents.


None of that makes sense. How does option 1 even come about? Number two is just a stupid assumption. We just had training on it today, didn't mean it just happened. According to one of my friends, he claimed that he told me a long time ago. I don't ever recall him saying that.

I never said there wasn't any reprisal..

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The point was to tell us that we can't attack any guy that peeps us in the shower because we would be charged with an assault even if he touches our junk. I thought that was pretty funny.
No you wouldn't, it would be self defense against a sexual assault. You're either lying or weren't paying attention at the briefing.


What about option #3, the EO rep put out wrong information. I wasn't there and didn't accept it, so I asked him one on one. That is exactly what he said. I don't like EO or New Horizons because I disagree with about 95% of the "EO" crap that's put out.

Only in the Army can there exist a "double rape". That is completely stupid.

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So... Alma is hoping that some poor guy gets acosted in the shower so DADT can be reinstated?

More and more I honestly wonder if Alma is truly enlisted...


Is that how you view the backbone of the Army?
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You actually left out numerous paragraphs of reasons, but the reasons that you stated were all addressed in the repeal of DADT, so they couldn't have been that weak.

Given that it was repealed... Smiley: laugh

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No, I mean people who don't understand the foundation of the military

You mean the organization that exists at the will of the civilians you keep crying about?

Maybe what you need is a nice military junta instead of a representative democracy. That way you'll be free to discriminate and make up weak justifications ("It's the military!!") all you want Smiley: smile
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None of that makes sense. How does option 1 even come about? Number two is just a stupid assumption. We just had training on it today, didn't mean it just happened.

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The focus was that Jimmy the hetero shouldn't have to live with Timmy the ****. That was addressed.
Which I corrected when I pointed out that (A) Jimmy The Breeder would be and was already living with Timmy the **** with or without DADT, and (B) For smaller living arrangements it's up to the command to decide the living arrangements which, again, has nothing to do with DADT.
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You all can live in denial about "Showers!" all you want, but the fact remains, that the concern is the same concern women have with showering with men.
See (A), replace the word living with showering.
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What about option #3, the EO rep put out wrong information.
Then call the garrison MPs to have him detained for releasing false information of that nature. Since, you know, that would actually be against UCMJ. So the options are you're lying, you simply weren't paying attention, or (according to you) someone felt that a dishonorable discharge and jail time was an acceptable risk.
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#613 Oct 11 2011 at 3:20 PM Rating: Excellent
Almalieque wrote:

Belkira the Tulip wrote:
So... Alma is hoping that some poor guy gets acosted in the shower so DADT can be reinstated?

More and more I honestly wonder if Alma is truly enlisted...


Is that how you view the backbone of the Army?


Are you saying you're the backbone of the army? If so, we're in more trouble than I thought.


Edited, Oct 11th 2011 4:21pm by Belkira
#614gbaji, Posted: Oct 11 2011 at 3:43 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Oddly enough Xsarus' answer, while tongue in cheek, is kinda correct. Given the assumption above that men are far less likely to report a sexual assault than women, the normal method of dealing with such things (or preventing them even) would be to identify someone as a homosexual in the first place. DADT provides(ed) a method by which a soldier could protect himself from unwanted sexual activity by threatening to reveal the sexual orientation of his potential assailant. This alone presumably did act as a form of deterrent, and certainly gave the victim an avenue to remove his assailant from the military without having to reveal the details of what happened.
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DADT provides(ed) a method by which a soldier could protect himself from unwanted sexual activity by threatening to reveal the sexual orientation of his potential assailant.
Wrong. The protection against unwanted sexual activity is covered under Sexual Assault and Harassment laws.
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Edit: Removed because the real answer is a couple posts down and there's no reason to muddle the issue.

Edited, Oct 11th 2011 5:48pm by Jophiel
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Almalieque wrote:
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Something about looking in showers [...] At this rate, DADT will be re-instated before 2012
Two unrelated topics.


"LOL" was denoting a joke. I wasn't serious.... I don't think "peepers" will suffice for a change. When people start getting sexually assaulted, then changes will occur. Peeping is just the "gateway" drug.. I wonder who's going to take one for the team?!?!?!Smiley: laugh


Ya **** the gays, no one ever got sexually ASSaulted in the histroy of the military ever, if it happens now it is totally because the gays can say they are gay. Not like they haven't been peeping for centuries. Just now in 2011, since they can say they love man junk in their trunk.

Alma you *****, its ok to come out, stop the fake hate.
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Or that males are much more likely to report MST afterward for whatever reason. Or men make up such a large percentage of the armed forces that a much lower incidence rate still creates the same total numbers in screening. Correlation, causation, etc etc.

Huh.
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About 1 in 5 women and 1 in 100 men seen in VHA respond "yes" when screened for MST. Though rates of MST are higher among women, there are almost as many men seen in VA that have experienced MST as there are women. This is because there are many more men in the military than there are women.

Whodathunkit?
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Given that it was repealed... Smiley: laugh


Hence the rest of my statement? You are implying that it must makes sense because it was supported? Under that notion, then DADT must make sense also because it was accepted back in the Clinton era. Just because it was voted on and accepted by the people doesn't mean it makes any sense at all, especially when people say stuff like "A homosexual can shoot a weapon just like a heterosexual can". Uh, yea, so can a convicted sex offender, what's your point?

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You mean the organization that exists at the will of the civilians you keep crying about?

Maybe what you need is a nice military junta instead of a representative democracy. That way you'll be free to discriminate and make up weak justifications ("It's the military!!") all you want


No, what we need are presidents who hold the highest ranking military position to actually have served in the military for x amount of years as a prerequisite.

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Which I corrected when I pointed out that (A) Jimmy The Breeder would be and was already living with Timmy the **** with or without DADT, and (B) For smaller living arrangements it's up to the command to decide the living arrangements which, again, has nothing to do with DADT.


Uh, no, under DADT, no matter how "gay" Timmy appears, he's straight unless proven other wise. Any action listed under the policy that Timmy may do that "proves" his homosexuality, then he's out. Just because Timmy wears skinny jeans, tight fish net shirts, talk with a lisp, swings his hips and talks about hair, don't make him gay. Is Timmy gay? More than likely, but none of those actions are defined as "homosexual", because those actions are merely stereotypes of a gay man, they don't define homosexuality.

Oh, with the living conditions, the generals that I sourced in the previous thread beg to differ with your opinion

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See (A), replace the word living with showering.
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Read above.

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Then call the garrison MPs to have him detained for releasing false information of that nature. Since, you know, that would actually be against UCMJ. So the options are you're lying, you simply weren't paying attention, or (according to you) someone felt that a dishonorable discharge and jail time was an acceptable risk.


Did you overlook the portion of me saying that I disagree with 95% of the stuff that's put out. Maybe in your career, the stuff said has made sense, but I have only experienced nothing but ignorant propaganda.

Here's just a small list of things that I've heard.

There can be a double rape case... How can two people rape each other at the same time?

Having sex with a drunk girl is rape because she "can't give consent" even if she came unto you.

Glancing at a woman as she walks down the grocery aisle is "sexual harassment" even though she didn't feel harassed or was effected one way or the other by it, because she didn't know it happened.

Talking with women with short skirts is like having sex with them, therefore it's prostitution (BDE CSM)

Buying J-girls drinks in Korea is prostitution and human trafficking, although we completely allow it to happen and support it. Each drink can be up to 1? year in jail.

"Women can say no at any time" as opposed to "don't put yourself in a position where you might feel the need to say no"

I mean the list just goes on. If every person who misrepresented information or said something illogical went to jail, I assure you the EO reps would be harder and harder to find... well, actually easier to find, because they'll all be behind bars.

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Are you saying you're the backbone of the army? If so, we're in more trouble than I thought.



Uh no. NCO's are the backbone of the Army. They correct officers and assist in planning and then turn around and ensure that the Soldiers are executing the plan that the officers came up with. They are the connection between the Good Idea Fairy and Joe actually executing a mission.

Your statement was implying that the more and more I talk, the dumber and dumber I sound, so therefore I should be enlisted. That means you think very poorly of the enlisted, when in fact they are the executors that actually make things happen. Shame on you... Make fun of warrants, they're anti-social and never follow any rules Smiley: nod
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Under that notion, then DADT must make sense also because it was accepted back in the Clinton era.

It made more sense than hunting for homosexuals to kick out, yes. It was a half-step that did what it needed to do and was ready to be retired.

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No, what we need are presidents who hold the highest ranking military position to actually have served in the military for x amount of years as a prerequisite.

You're welcome to your opinion but... yeah. Fortunately, that's not the way they decided to do it. But I bet previous military experience is a requirement to lead a military junta!

Edited, Oct 11th 2011 6:09pm by Jophiel
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#621gbaji, Posted: Oct 11 2011 at 5:22 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Did my point just /whoosh right over some people's heads?
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Or that males are much more likely to report MST afterward for whatever reason. Or men make up such a large percentage of the armed forces that a much lower incidence rate still creates the same total numbers in screening. Correlation, causation, etc etc.

Huh.
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About 1 in 5 women and 1 in 100 men seen in VHA respond "yes" when screened for MST. Though rates of MST are higher among women, there are almost as many men seen in VA that have experienced MST as there are women. This is because there are many more men in the military than there are women.

Whodathunkit?



Irrelevant. I'm talking about the ratio of men who report sexual assaults when they happen to the total number of men who are sexually assaulted. That argument doesn't have anything at all to do with the ratio of sexual assaults against all men or women as a percentage of the total number of men or women in the military.

What's funny is that I deliberately ignored you when you wrote that, thinking it would just give you a side track to argue about that wasn't relevant to the argument I'm making. And while making that decision I *knew* that you would ignore the entirety of my post and zero in on the one part I didn't respond to anyway.

Thanks for being consistent at least.


EDIT: To be as clear as possible. If 83% of all sexual assaults reported at the time of the assault are male on female, but more than 50% of all veterans who report having been sexually assaulted while serving in the military are men, then the percentage of men who do not file reports when they are assaulted must be much much higher than that of women. This is true regardless of what percentage of all men or all women in the military suffer assaults.


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Irrelevant.

So you only thought that number mattered when it helped your argument? Smiley: laugh

Thanks for being consistent at least.
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Irrelevant.

So you only thought that number mattered when it helped your argument?


What number? I am not arguing that men are more or likely to be assaulted than women. I'm arguing that of those assaulted, men are less likely to report it at the time. Thus, military laws and punishments for sexual assaults are less applicable to male on male sexual assaults in the military. Those laws only matter if the victim reports what happened.

You're bringing up an absolutely irrelevant side fact and insisting on arguing only that. I'm not sure why.

Women are 20 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in the military.

There, happy? Can you stop pretending that I'm somehow arguing that point with you? Geez!


That fact does not change the fact that men in the military are much less likely to report being victims of sexual assaults when they happen than women are. Can you please stick to the point. Pretty please?

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What number?
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Yet, in the source you linked, it said that "But women aren’t the only victims; statistics from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicate that more than half of those who screen positive for Military Sexual Trauma are men."

Obviously, the ratios are skewed among the populations themselves, with assault odds being higher for women than men, but the issue I'm talking about is the likelihood of the assault being reported in the first place to even have a chance of being dealt with. For that analysis, the above stats are pretty significant.

Bolding yours.

Funny how the DVA numbers "are pretty significant" when you thought they helped and suddenly stopped mattering when they don't help you quite so much.

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That fact does not change the fact that men in the military are much less likely to report being victims of sexual assaults when they happen than women are.

Playing fast and loose with the word "fact", are we? The portion quoted by you above was supposed to support this "fact", remember?
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If 83% of all sexual assaults reported at the time of the assault are male on female...

The first problem with this is that it assumes each person will only be assaulted/report an assault once rather than singular people making repeated reports (with frustrating response).

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Did my point just /whoosh right over some people's heads?
Much like Alma, your point has nothing to do with DADT, and it takes a herculean effort to try to link the two topics together.
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Put another way: Soldier1 in shower plays grab-*** with soldier2 without soldier2's permission. Under DADT, the soldier2 can report to his superiors that the soldier1 revealed to him that he is homosexual,
Before we go too far, at this point Soldier2 would be Falsifying Official Statements (Article 107). By your own hypothetical, it would have been done with intent to deceive, and the maximum punishment is a dishonorable discharge and five years. So, some reality into your hypothetical. Is Private Scruffy going to make an official statement now with the knowledge that his lying will ruin his life? Do you believe that Private Scruffy's word is just going to be automatically taken as truth, and an investigation isn't going to be done? What evidence will he have other than his word? The counter evidence is simply our hypothetical sexual assaulter saying "No, I'm not gay." So now, in your own hypothetical your own innocent party will be the one that is punished and the person who should be punished for a crime is free to do whatever he wants. DADT made no difference. Actually, it assisted the bad guy in this scenario! Good job gbaji! You hypothetically let a rapist go and ruined an innocent soldiers life because you don't know what you're talking about!

Then again, if you're stupid enough to think that "Hey, the straight guy can do illegal things all he wants!" is a viable argument, you're also stupid enough to think that those rascally gays are now going to descend from the ceilings and assault anyone and everyone with impunity!
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Absent DADT, soldier2 has to file a report that he was sexually assaulted by soldier1.
Yeah, heaven forbid someone have to do the right thing and report a crime.
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Or was that not clear enough the first time I explained it?
No, your homophobia is quite clear. Repeating it over and over again doesn't make it correct. Lucky for me I actually know UCMJ so it's easy to dismiss you. Unlucky for me I have to contend with Alma who one second says he was at an EO Briefing and the next says he wasn't there but asked personally, and that it was the EO Rep that was saying completely illegal and career life ending statements.

Edit: There's actually more things wrong with your stupid hypothetical, I just pointed out the most glaring. If you'd like me to embarrass you more I'd be more than happy to point them out.

Edited, Oct 11th 2011 8:03pm by lolgaxe
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