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dibbs977 says:

I am now 66 years old and actually I have liked becoming older---as all my young years, I felt the almost constant predatory attitudes of men. I think it is time for many men to take a personal inventory.


JavMD replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; well... too many women expose themselfs foolishly, either in swim suits (Sports Illustrated) on music videos... woman like self esteem, they need a 'second' womans' lib movement... too many walking around dressed like *****... look at Briteny Spears, no underwear in public, young girls see the looks of music stars... no wonder there are problems...

if you're 'showing' it, men will look, that is 'human' (animal) nature

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dibbs977 says:

We as a society have a long way to go in becoming civilized. The recent Super Bowl brought to Dallas much prostitution---and many of the girls were children under 16 years of age. It is big business so we have many men who are participating. Our soldiers also need realistic assistance in learning how to cope with war deployment. We needs to expose hypocrits, bigotry, predjudice and exploitation. So much of traditional Christianity supports these cruel lies. I am a New kind of Christian---one who follows the teachings of Christ---not all the insane, hateful dogma which has been added over the years. Jesus taught spiritual truths and people have mistakenly literlized his teachings---causing us to be lost. People in America---it is time to wake up and stop all the Right Winged hate which came down from the KKK and ignorance--which supports the money-grubing GOP who only want to make ours a society of a few very rich and the rest of us being exploited for their benefit.


Nolongerliberal replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; Hey dibbs977, I hope when you are speaking of ignorance you are looking in a mirror. As a reformed democrat, even I know the DEMOCRATS STARTED THE KKK!!!! Just look through history to see the truth! Have you forgotten that they just buried Sen. Robert Byrd Democrat, who was a grand wizard for the KKK, and Clinton apologized for him at his funeral. For someone who says they follows the teachings of Christ, you apparently only follow with words not actions. Read and learn, or keep your head up your ***, THE CHOICE IS YOURS.
Our nation's top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.
The Democrats: ?Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
?Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
?Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
?Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
?Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
?Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
?Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
?Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
?Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
?Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
?Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
?Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.


morgansher replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; "The recent Super Bowl brought to Dallas much prostitution---and many of the girls were children under 16 years of age. It is big business so we have many men who are participating."

Not only is that prostitution, but when pimps bring children and teens with them to sell for sex, those pimps are, in fact, slavers. They traffic human beings and sell the "prostitutes" to other men. Those children and teen sex slaves are, themselves victims of crimes against them including rape, molestation, violent assault and more, by the pimps who sell them again and again.

It boggles my mind that we are, in 2011, that we still refuse to make the clear distinction between a child/teen sex slave who is being trafficked for sex and adult prostitutes who actually choose the sex work trade.

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VA_Jill says:

REAL men do not rape women, civilian or military. If they do, they are not REAL men, nor should they be soldiers. Case closed.


James93x replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; Sexual felons are misogynists and violent criminals. Frustrated homosexuals act-out.

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smitvict says:: And "gays in the military" will destroy unit cohesion? Seems like the evangelical fundamentalists (who are all over the military) have already done that on their own.; reply

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morgansher says:

I find it sadly ironic that incidents of rape in the military has exploded both against military women and civilian women overseas at the same time that right wing, hardcore Christian fundamentalism has become entrenched in the military. The DOD, the Joint Chiefs, and branches of the military are all to blame for allowing this rape culture to flourish. As one commenter noted, the military has had decades now, to implement an anti-rape standard, but they have failed miserably and utterly. As a veteran, as a rape survivor, I would never, ever encourage my nieces to volunteer to serve in any military branch precisely because we know without a doubt that if they are raped, the justice they will experience will be total injustice where the perpetrators get off with little more than a wrist slap, if that. America's daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, nieces etc., do NOT deserve that.

It also does not surprise me that rapists who've attacked Iraqi and Afghani girls and women have also walked away free as birds. They've already gotten the message that war crimes are tolerated by the military and that they won't face the punishment they deserve, because their victims have been dehumanized as worth less than dirt by military's good fundamentalist Christian cohorts.


galvet replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; I don't believe that there are more rapes. They are just more likely to be reported.

I was in the Marine Corps 1/69-1/72. I endured more than I care to even think about. I was verbally and physically abused repeatedly. It is part of the macho culture, and part of what is done to the young male recruits that allows them to kill. Back then, I couldn't even imagine reporting the abuse for fear of even worse things happening. I suffered in silence.

The military is the only place I know of where a woman can advance in her career as quickly as a man, and with equal pay. With so many women serving in the military, many in combat, there needs to be a change in the attitudes of the men they serve with. This can not go on!

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LuvMeBug says:: Having served 9 years with the US Army...this story hits home something serious. Being the "new girl" it seemed a game for the men in my unit to see who would be first to "hit" that. I was raped 3 times, each time being told by the men involved that I need not report it cuz nothing would happen to them. Well they were right. My commander looked at me like I was a tattletale in the school yard. Nothing ever did happen. Years later my then husband beat me severly. I ran and made it to the orderly room where they called the MPs - who went to our apartment (3 squad cars) and arrested him. The next morning his Squad Leader signed him out of jail, brought him back to the apartment, told us to behave and LEFT HIM THERE!!!! How sad it is that the US Military treats their women soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen etc so badly.; reply

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antoniof123 says:: I got to say this much you rape my daughter and there will be no rock on Earth you can hide.

Just amazing how anyone of you stupid retarded morons can say that there is any defense to rape.

Move to Iran I hear they feel the same way.; reply

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RedWings_ninety_one says:: Don't you just hate stupid people?; reply

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meshine says:

Why couldn't our Government foresee these incidents happening before they allowed females to enter units and work side by side with male service personnel. Any time you put males and females together in a close knit unit, you're going to have sexual tensions which generate these types of problems. We didn't have these problems in my unit in Viet Nam because we had no females in our unit.


meshine replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; ms-enza: how many villagers complained to the government that they had been raped? I am sure not nearly as many as the complaints we hear about in todays military.


LuvMeBug replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; So you're saying because the women serve in these units it's OK? Or it's BOUND TO HAPPEN?? OMG...grow up. Real "MEN" don't rape, beat, or kill women..military or not.


Jaylah54 replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; meshine, so you're suggesting that rape is only wrong if it gets reported? Obviously that war scrambled your brain more than you're aware of. Or maybe you just have no morals to begin with.

Do you suppose that, perhaps, those Vietnamese women in had something more pressing to worry about? Like staying alive? Or allowing you to rape them in hopes you wouldn't notice their daughters hiding nearby? And do you think that they knew the names of your chain of command like you did? Who were they going to report it to? And how do you know some of them didn't report it, and were -- as usual -- just brushed off?

The rampant sexual abuse of indigenous women in southeast Asia is a well-documented aspect of that war.


meshine replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; I never said that a righteous rape is ok but there is a gray area here. I dont beleive in demonizing all of our young men in the military because some women have been known to turn a yes into a no when things dont go exactly the way they want them to go. There are blogs here that suggest that the military doesn't investigate reported rape cases and that is just not accurate. I think that when the military investigate some of these reported rapes, they discover that it is not an every day cut and dry rape where man physically imposed himself on the woman. There are circumstances that link these people socially that makes the reported rape questionable. If there are other circumstances involved such as a dating relationship or social drinking, who can clearly determine that a rape occured if it is a one on one type situation where there are no other witnesses. How do you determine if it was consentual or not when most of the reported cases involved no use of physical force??


galvet replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; Go ahead, blame the victim.

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Jaylah54 says:

Amusingly, every woman that gets her medical care from the VA gets questioned every year about whether she experienced sexual abuse during her military career. If she says yes, she is referred for counseling.

So the military KNOWS it's going on. They just prefer to deal with it after women are discharged and are no longer a threat to the perpetrators.


Jaylah54 replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; Ms_enza, I didn't say that she actually gets counseling. I said she is referred for counseling.

The mental health clinics are so understaffed that they rarely follow up on those.

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