Retired Navy Commander Darlene Iskra, the first woman to command a ship in the U.S. Navy, writes a piece on a Time.com blog touting the end to the military's ban on gays serving openly in the military. Iskra uses the occasion to assert that sexual assault and harassment in the military are not committed by women, gays, lesbians, or, by implication, blacks, but by white males -- "who," she asserts with a broad brush, "seem to think that the world -- and all its contents -- revolve around them."
Iskra further suggests, without citing any supporting authority, that the fear of false rape claims is one of several fears that accompanied the integration of women into the military that proved to be unfounded.
Iskra's piece can be read here: http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/07/19/dont-ask-dont-tell-on-off-on-again-off-again-back-on-again/
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I'm always glad to see a commander showing respect and equal deference to his or her charges.
No seriously,she is retired, or we could make a fuss.
(unaccountable, as always)
The "gender-Raunch" community in the US military have "Empowered" themselves not by extolling the virtues of "Gender-Raunch" but by persecuting the innocent.
I have a long history of worling with women. Most of whom couldn't get real jobs if there wasn't some kind of Affirmative Action going on. ten years ago I swore I would never work for another woman, and it's cut the BS and aggrivation in my life to a tenth of what it was.
Just say no guys. Try it, and you won't be sorry.
White Devil, I understand that is your opinion, but generalizations about women are as troubling as generalizations about men. While society tolerates the latter but not the former; this blog, per our comments policy, doesn't tolerate either.
As a black person myself I take serious issue with this idiots statements, and anyone on here that thinks she's doing any of the groups she mentioned a favor(other than women)should do well to remember that she'd be the first one spearheading a rape case against a black/hispanic/whatever soldier regardless of how ridiculous it is. It's just much easier for her to openly attack white males without fear of retribution whereas if she said the same thing of males of other ethnicities her head would be on a plate.
But I have a solution for her, you want to protect womenz from these violent men, then separate the units(right up to the command officers) by gender. That way there's no lowering of standards to support mediocrity, and minimized risk of sexual assault except for same sex, but of course that doesn't happen in the military(I wonder how she explains it happening in prisons then? But I guess if its inmates they deserve it.)
I worked in a MTF for almost a decade. As much as I really don't want to admit this, I'd never taken care of a black-on-white rape case in that time (despite having performed ER duty, a task that guaranteed my presence at the initial accusation.)
For clarification's sake, however, I'd only been witness to one non-refuted rape accusation (and I'd witnessed over two dozen accusations ripped to shreds due to lack of evidence.) The day that I started reading this site was the day that I was dragged in to work to treat a FRA who claimed that her freshly bruised body and (ugh) semen-filled vagina was the handiwork of an airman who had been deployed to Iraq (and was still present in iraq) 6 months prior to her arrival at the ER. The day that i had to drag myself out of bed to deal with a "rape victim" who poured refrigerated semen into herself to solidify her case was an eye opener.
Thank you for your comment,Donn. You are quite astute. The same mechanisms that allow this woman to bash white men, also allow other women to make claims about "dark-skinned rapists" that probably 99% of all false rape claims feature in one way or another.
The best part of the article was her insinuating that of course there are no false rape claims, but those evil white guys are evil. I'm sure she was talking about the same white guys who probably had to work harder to make up for her.
Archivist, I understand your point and concern about White Devil's comments and would probably agree with you until I saw it first hand. I've worked at a couple of non profits where women ruled the roost and it's surreal. If they had cameras and made a reality show about them it would set back women decades and make any feminist lose her mind. From the utter incompetence to the refusal to take responsibility for anything to literally watching them shake and constantly make a male make any tough decision that needed to be made quickly, it truly is an experience to watch.
The American gender-Raunch community has risen to "Empowerment" by a perverted law enforcement.
The "protocol perversions and semantics games" that American law enforcement are now engaged in that serve to "manufacture statistics", are not only perversions, they are un-constitutional.
Anon at 6:58 a.m., I have no difficulty with folks discussing personal experiences so long as they don't libel anyone, but to assume a personal experience is representative of an entire gender is something we shouldn't do.
Separate units in the military are nothing new.
WWII had all black units and Japanese -American units(whose families had been interred in prison camps).
My suggestion for female commanders:
Just as women have separated barracks and separate bathrooms, they should be able to show their true mettle with their own separate units, just as WWII black and Japanese units did.
Once women figure out how to protect themselves - on their own - they are then ready to protect their country.
If women can't be trained to protect themselves from their own countrymen, how can they protect their country from it's enemies?
Figure it out, Ladies!
Males troops don't require female support of any sort.
Females cannot bog down the misson by demanding male protection from male troops, expecially when they are perfectly equal and capable. It isn't equal pay for equal work when you siphon resources off for personal protection.
We are supposed to be fighting a common enemy, not each other.
(In case YOU haven't figured it out, I'M female).
Women who are in the military forces are real social germs. Because they are not feminine and also they are deforming the society by complicating gender roles. Actually women who are in military forces are useless.
This is not actually a problem of black and white discrimination. If a woman going to command a navy ship it is a sign of rising feminism.
@Anon Jul 24, 2011 12:34:00 PM,
Have you written to your congress-person and demanded to be included in the selective service? And when are females going to have their heads shaved in boot camp? We won't see gender-segregated units in our lifetime, but those two would be a good place to start.
Having seen 'The Caine Mutiny,' I shudder at the thought that this woman was even allowed to control the keys to the ice cream freezer on a ship, much less to command one.
I'm surprised her ship didn't run aground at the nearest reef where a town's gift shop was visible!
Yep, the problem with women in the military is that some of them will claim to have been raped, when they haven't been. The women who spend more time agitating for more, more, more bullshit privileges for women than they do breathing will, of course, enable these liars.
And our society simply has no clue how to cope with false rape accusers: hence, women in the military doesn't really work.
”…but by white males -- "who," she asserts with a broad brush, "seem to think that the world -- and all its contents -- revolve around them."
This is little more than the typical “apex fallacy” in action, seeing all white men as equivalent to a very select few who are the sons of the rich and powerful (and who sometimes do have an “entitled” attitude, including that towards woman).
However, the bulk of those white men are not the “Fortunate Son’s”, but generally the sons of the lower-middle and working classes, who never known any “privilege” based on either their gender nor their race. They know all too well that the world does revolve around them.
But, given the PC governance of virtually all public life, “white boys” are still available as targets of scorn and derision. So, attempts to paint all white men as one-and-the-same as a privileged few seems the best way to obscure the issue.
In an otherwise unrelated arena, as we see the incidents of female teachers engaging in inappropriate sexual activities with students beginning to outnumber those by male teachers, we are now being treated to an interjection of logic to try to minimize the inescapable reality that this pathology is one that woman are subject too as well – there are more female teachers than male teachers.
But, this same logic SHOULD be applied in any consideration of white men being more often guilty of wrong-doing. The Navy is no doubt mostly made up of straight white men.
Eric J Schlegel said...
@Anon Jul 24, 2011 12:34:00 PM,
Have you written to your congress-person and demanded to be included in the selective service? And when are females going to have their heads shaved in boot camp? We won't see gender-segregated units in our lifetime, but those two would be a good place to start.
Jul 25, 2011 6:21:00 AM
#1 - Yes, Eric.
Yes,I have. I have demanded selective service requirements for ALL qualified American Citizens - or none.
Have you?
#2 - No, Eric, I have not. I support males not having their heads shaved instead. There are improved methods to control head lice nowdays.
I don't demand equal numbers of urinals for the Ladies room. Hopefully males won't demand a Tampax dispenser. I allow it's not always about tit for tat.
We're supposed to supporting each other and fighting "them", not each other.
Don't you agree?
Anon at 11:29: I can't see how anyone could disagree with that comment.
This is great! I'm pretty sure the military school she have been is proud of her. Congratulations and the very best of luck to her!
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