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Redstate Bluegirl

(213 posts) Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:07 PM Feb 2012

Fox News Pundit: Women In Military Should 'Expect' To Be Raped (VIDEO)

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Fox News Pundit: Women In Military Should 'Expect' To Be Raped (VIDEO) (Original Post) Redstate Bluegirl Feb 2012 OP

the horror and outrage many of us feel at this hateful, clueles twit's venom is almost beyond niyad Feb 2012 #1

Out of the of idiots. I wonder how they would feel it they had a daughter in the military? southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #2

Ah but these people NEVER have a child in the military! Redstate Bluegirl Feb 2012 #8

"What did they expect?" ChairmanAgnostic Feb 2012 #3

Trotta refers to changes in military because women are now "raped too much"". Does this mean Dollface Feb 2012 #4

Women who work for Murdoch expect to be ignorant eye candy. Lint Head Feb 2012 #5

She's 75 and hardly eye candy. They have to have a few 'real' journalists, ya know. CurtEastPoint Feb 2012 #6

This lady was famous for some other stupid thing she said, I think, during the 2008 race. Mayberry Machiavelli Feb 2012 #7

She talked about killing Obama Redstate Bluegirl Feb 2012 #10

No, I'd honestly forgotten, but I did look it up shortly before your post. Mayberry Machiavelli Feb 2012 #11

Funny I just came out of a thread that said SomethingFishy Feb 2012 #9

The fact that this is epidemic in the military comes as no surprise to me WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2012 #12

niyad

(113,952 posts)

1. the horror and outrage many of us feel at this hateful, clueles twit's venom is almost beyond

Reply to Redstate Bluegirl (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:09 PM

Feb 2012

words

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)

2. Out of the of idiots. I wonder how they would feel it they had a daughter in the military?

Reply to Redstate Bluegirl (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:10 PM

Feb 2012

These people are unbelievably stupid.

Redstate Bluegirl

(213 posts)

8. Ah but these people NEVER have a child in the military!

Reply to southernyankeebelle (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:37 PM

Feb 2012

That's why they can "soberly" argue for war.

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

3. "What did they expect?"

Reply to Redstate Bluegirl (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:12 PM

Feb 2012

well, for one thing, more professionalism throughout the military, including policies and education aimed at stopping the abuse of women.

When blacks were abused in WWI and WWII, what was the answer, keeping them out of the military? Or education and changing how the military behaved, you little insignificant WashingtonTimes washout?

Dollface

(1,590 posts)

4. Trotta refers to changes in military because women are now "raped too much"". Does this mean

Reply to Redstate Bluegirl (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:15 PM

Feb 2012

that before there were women in combat that the number of rapes was about right?

Liz Trotta is a waste of skin.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

5. Women who work for Murdoch expect to be ignorant eye candy.

Reply to Redstate Bluegirl (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:20 PM

Feb 2012

CurtEastPoint

(18,683 posts)

6. She's 75 and hardly eye candy. They have to have a few 'real' journalists, ya know.

Reply to Lint Head (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:24 PM

Feb 2012

Even stupid ones like her.

Mayberry Machiavelli

(21,096 posts)

7. This lady was famous for some other stupid thing she said, I think, during the 2008 race.

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:31 PM

Feb 2012

I can't remember what though.

Redstate Bluegirl

(213 posts)

10. She talked about killing Obama

Reply to Mayberry Machiavelli (Reply #7)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 07:08 PM

Feb 2012

But you knew that, didn't you? Kudos for not using the sarcasm icon!

Mayberry Machiavelli

(21,096 posts)

11. No, I'd honestly forgotten, but I did look it up shortly before your post.

Reply to Redstate Bluegirl (Reply #10)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 07:15 PM

Feb 2012

Googling "liz trotta obama" brings it right up, sigh.

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)

9. Funny I just came out of a thread that said

Reply to Redstate Bluegirl (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:39 PM

Feb 2012

men need to be educated about women.

Looks like men aren't the only ones.

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)

12. The fact that this is epidemic in the military comes as no surprise to me

Reply to Redstate Bluegirl (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 07:36 PM

Feb 2012

I was around and conscious of politics when the question of women in the military (that is to say, women being more than WACs) came up early in the Ronnie Raygun administration. The Pentagon dug in its heels and went into full-on resistance mode against the suggestion that women be allowed in combat units. With the level of hostility the military showed to the idea (the compromise that was reached at the time was women allowed in front-line units, but only in non-combat roles) it's no surprise to me that we have this 'rape culture' today.

Although I don't think it used to be this bad. I have a female cousin who was in the army in the 80s, and although I've never asked her about this issue, I never got the impression that it was as bad as it is today, so this probably developed over time. (No- I haven't forgotten about Tailhook either)

Any women out there who served in the 80s who can enlighten me on this? Was it always this bad?

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