I have no issue with the standard flow of four letter words, but do you really think people should be tossing about 'suck my____' in the workplace, even if that is in the military?
I keep seeing how this is some great authoritarian framework, and I agree it is... but to suggest that such banter is necessary for morale is silly.
I always get rather confused about the big stink of DADT...there are already gays in the military....there have been for years. THey serve just like any other soldier. THey are already in barracks and washrooms...and foxholes. SO why is it a big deal that they can simply say I'm gay...and go about thier job? I don't get it. They are already there...I'm sure it's far from a secret to most who know them..or people already suspect it. I just can't wrap my mind around what the big deal is.
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne
No I don't think people should be randomly throwing out that phrase in the workplace. Give me a bit of credit please.
But that is not what was described. Perhaps my military experience made the context clearer to me as I could imagine it happening.
Sounded like it was among soldiers who routinely worked together who were JOKING around. Then one set the other up by purposely not letting the first one know there was a woman listening who was offended. They probably thought it would all be a great gag until the whole thing got blown out of proportion.
Like I said, it's not like this man said it to HER FACE or even in her presence. He didn't KNOW there was a woman listening.
So a bunch of soldiers in a field/combat environment joking around were one tells the other in jest to S his D......and oh my let's round 'em up and send them to more sensitivity training! LOL!
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I can see and understand your sentiment on this, and guess it comes down to each person and each partner. Thirty
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Don't see any gender or homophobic slight in the joking that was described.
If you do--please explain.
It's not like a joke was made in the presence of a woman or a gay person that denigrated woman or gays.
I have no issue with the standard flow of four letter words, but do you really think people should be tossing about 'suck my____' in the workplace, even if that is in the military?
I keep seeing how this is some great authoritarian framework, and I agree it is... but to suggest that such banter is necessary for morale is silly.
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"You have no power over my body..." ~ Anne Hutchinson
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I might not have a problem with it if they were square dancing or line dancing, but salsa dancing?
Don't see any gender or homophobic slight in the joking that was described.
Since when is "suck my ____" a joke?
No I don't think people should be randomly throwing out that phrase in the workplace. Give me a bit of credit please.
But that is not what was described. Perhaps my military experience made the context clearer to me as I could imagine it happening.
Sounded like it was among soldiers who routinely worked together who were JOKING around. Then one set the other up by purposely not letting the first one know there was a woman listening who was offended. They probably thought it would all be a great gag until the whole thing got blown out of proportion.
Like I said, it's not like this man said it to HER FACE or even in her presence. He didn't KNOW there was a woman listening.
So a bunch of soldiers in a field/combat environment joking around were one tells the other in jest to S his D......and oh my let's round 'em up and send them to more sensitivity training! LOL!
Where is the common sense?
You obviously weren't envisioning the same environment as I did based on the information provided.
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