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Pentagon Gay Pride Event

$Trader$ said:
It's actually a "Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender" "event". That's Super!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=cGYNuoCigGY&feature=fvwp

And in to lead the event Winona Ryder will perform her ping pong ball trick.
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The LGB part I'm fine with. The "Transgender?" I don't think anyone's allowed to wear the uniform of another gender still.

Is there a Winona Ryder meme I'm missing there? I haven't heard anything about her for years.
 
I love how people whine nonstop about the Mickey Mouse bullshit their command/the Navy/the Corps makes them do, talking about how we're all adults, but then get up in arms over completely harmless non-news items like breast feeding in uniform or pride events.

Do we wanna micromanage people's lives or not?
 
phrogdriver said:
The LGB part I'm fine with. The "Transgender?" I don't think anyone's allowed to wear the uniform of another gender still.

Is there a Winona Ryder meme I'm missing there? I haven't heard anything about her for years.
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Might be tough to get a waver for the transgender thing. NAMI whammy :)

For the record, I might attend if Winona Ryder was actually doing a ping ball trick.
 
RadicalDude said:
I love how people whine nonstop about the Mickey Mouse bullshit their command/the Navy/the Corps makes them do talking about how we're all adults,
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4 hours of sexual assault awareness training is an insulting, CYA-motivated, waste of time which has NO measurable effect. Show me one time a sexual predator has paused and contemplated the meaning of that last SAPR presentation, before acting on their deviant impulses.

RadicalDude said:
but then get up in arms over completely harmless non-news items like breast feeding in uniform or pride events.
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Ensuring that uniform standards are uniform and that the uniforms are not used for political purposes is reasonable.

How are these scenarios fundamentally similar?
 
Most sexual assaults aren't committed by "sexual predators," but are instead perpetrated by people who know their victim. But I'm sure you knew that, having actually paid attention to the training.
 
phrogdriver said:
Can't be worse than all the "African-American," "Asian-Pacific Islander," "Latino," "Women," et al pride events we already have.

I don't care what any of you fuckers are. Just STFU about it and get back to work.
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I've always thought of it this way: If you don't like it or aren't interested you don't have to go.

Wifey and I go to some of the cultural "pride" events if for nothing else but the food. Greek fests, Ethiopian festivals, Asian Festivals, etc.... They all have pretty awesome food, and sometimes they have interesting cultural music and dance.
 
squorch2 said:
Most sexual assaults aren't committed by "sexual predators," but are instead perpetrated by people who know their victim. But I'm sure you knew that, having actually paid attention to the training.
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Acquaintance with the victim does not negate the predatory nature of the act. If you insist, replace "predator" with "offender" in my comment above, and my point still stands. The training has negligible preventive power.
 
I don't think so at all - it establishes baselines of acceptable behavior and encourages others to stop the beginnings of assault. Lots of people literally don't know what is and isn't consent.
 
Swanee said:
I've always thought of it this way: If you don't like it or aren't interested you don't have to go.

Wifey and I go to some of the cultural "pride" events if for nothing else but the food. Greek fests, Ethiopian festivals, Asian Festivals, etc.... They all have pretty awesome food, and sometimes they have interesting cultural music and dance.
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I'm not sure we're talking about the same things. Going to a town or city's ethnic festival can indeed be interesting and a good time. I'm talking about the silly events that get passed via all-hands email blasts and the accompanying MARADMINs/NAVADMINs requesting nominations for "Female Marine of the Year" or some such malarkey. I know the PC police will say it's different somehow, but I somehow think that the reception would be much different if they had a European-American Pride event at the O-club, with displays showing the outstanding contributions of European-Americans to the military. Of course, the menu selections might be a little boring, but still...
 
squorch2 said:
I don't think so at all - it establishes baselines of acceptable behavior and encourages others to stop the beginnings of assault. Lots of people literally don't know what is and isn't consent.
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This. Even in my short time in the Navy the things I have seen boggle my mind.
 
squorch2 said:
I don't think so at all - it establishes baselines of acceptable behavior and encourages others to stop the beginnings of assault. Lots of people literally don't know what is and isn't consent.
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How we have failed as a society if your statement is true? But I don't think it is. I think your sentiment echos what has become a culture of personal UN-accountability.

CommodoreMid said:
Even in my short time in the Navy the things I have seen boggle my mind.
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Mind boggling =/= unaccountable.
 
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