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FYI: Part of the "woke" "DEI" training in the military is where they tell guys not to rape women. Republicans want that to stop. These are the same people who said my rape was my fault because rape is an "occupational hazard."

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Our military leadership is deep and strong. Trump can't change this. I recently posted the farewell speech by General Milley. Listen to Lt. General Silveria read the riot act to a group of soldiers after someone wrote a racist slur on the wall. Hear his views on DEI in the military: bit.ly/42dfZkU

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I got that line from management where I worked 20 years ago when I was groped, grabbed, pushed into locked spaces, getting erections rubbed up against me, etc ON A DAILY BASIS. "You chose to work in a restaurant, what did you expect?" Mind you, I was a chef in the back of house. Not that it matters

One of the Rs said that the DoD had spent 3000000 hours on DEI training (didn't mention the time period, presumably a year) but for an organisation of 3m people that's 1 hour a year per person...

I am so sorry for you. What happened to you or any other woman is not your fault or an “occupational hazard”. It was one person exerting forced control and violation against another. That is NEVER ok. Again, as a 70+ male, I am so sorry for you.

Thank you for your service. Clearly you are brave as f*ck for then talking about your rape and role modeling strength and perseverance for survivors everywhere. And shame on Trump for so many reasons. But especially for role modeling treating woman like that. He is a complete waste of oxygen.

4. Or was their sex going on -- 'innocent sex' -- pre-Apple, when the poor wingless golems had no idea of morality and thus, no real self awareness? Was God just a cosmic Lookie Lou, like a kid making his GI Joe kiss his sister's Barbie, and he got mad when they started thinking for themselves?

Counter; Eve did not gain the benefits of the fruit until after Adam ate the apple. (Biblical fact) The knowledge of good and evil led them to act much like rape victims who have finally realized what they had been subjected to for years. And I am convinced it was just Adam who sinned.

So if said rapist has his "parts" surgically removed by a woman he raped, it too should be considered an "occupational hazard". Post that on the base and in Congress too!

6% of females in the military are sexually assaulted every year. TO CLARIFY: Every year, 6 percent of all females in the military are sexually assaulted. Not ‘6% have been sexually assaulted at one point in their lives’ each year it’s ANOTHER 6%

A few years back, a congressional Republican called bullying "a right of passage." He didn't think we should even try to stop it. I stopped the only instance I've witnessed. Not equating it to rape. Just pointing out the general Republican attitude the the strong can do as they want.

They asked what woke means but their was no explanation.The term woke has a Dictionary meaning of: Woke, the African-American English synonym for the General American English word awake, has since the 1930s or earlier been used to refer to awareness of social and political issues affecting African

Americans, often in the construction stay woke. Or to become alert to or aware of. The MAGAs version is not in any Dictionary but their false ideology hey were told by the Extremists.. The MAGAts are obsessed with "woke" but can't define it!

I was in the Army in the late 80s early 90s under Bush the 1st We had training that would be called DEI today. Back then we understood taking a kid from backwoods GA and putting him in a high stress situation with a kid from the streets of L.A. might cause personnel issues and it should be address.

Exactly this. It seems that the only thing the "family values" party wants is to create the issues to force women back in the kitchens of abusers who believe like they do. Also, they want to get rid of no fault divorces and pass laws about divorces that would keep women in abusive marriages. Sick.

Do you remember the Navy's Tailhook scandal? I was on active duty when it happened, and we had sudden mandatory sexual harassment classes, but only to check off a box, not to actually accomplish anything. We did it because we HAD to, and not because it was RIGHT.

I met my wife before she joined the army. After she got out we started dating. She told me what "number" I would have been if we had dated before she went in and what it was after. I said "that's kind of a big difference."She looked at me and said "do you think it was all consensual?" My heart sank.

If rape is an occupational hazard for women, then castration should be one for their male counterparts. Personal preference? Neither for either.

The military has a history of predatory behavior towards women. Hence why the training was needed. The patriarchy for some reason is feeling very insecure about their masculinity and feels the need to promote this toxic culture. In a country that loves guns women are armed too. Just sayin’ #FAFO

so stunningly sad to hear that. this nomination is so unbelievably flawed…he is just not a good person, not to mention, imminently unqualified. he is a Frankenstein of all that is wrong, in the military, in the republican party, in men, indeed in man…

I’m so sorry that you had to live through that. My rapist was HPV +, which gave me cervical cancer that metastasized to my lymph nodes & spine. I spent 10 years battling cancer before I was declared in remission. The only bright spot was he was convicted & did 15 years in prison. Too many go free 😡

I am so sorry that happened 😥 With the orange turd & his clown show appointees readying to run our country into the ground I've also been thinking about my sexual assault while in the Navy & the way the duty officer I reported it to said he would ruin my Navy career if I didn't 'let it go' 🤬

A survey for the Department of Defense conducted in 2015 found that in the past year 52% of active service members who reported sexual assault had experienced retaliation in the form of professional, social, and administrative actions or punishments.

Rape, and I use that in the dictionary sense of gaining sexual knowledge of another without their consent, is an abomination and anyone who says it is in some way deserved, is the scum of the Earth! Saying an occupation is a justification for rape is saying it is deserved... How low of them!

I am so sorry you went all that - through not only the experience but the subsequent hell of being treated like you were making it up. There should be a special place in hell for rapists and apologists.

Nah, stop making excuses for horrible men. Women don't behave this way. There is no misguiding in my statement. Men have truly been the disease of our society for centuries. Open a history book, and you'll see all the atrocities committed by the hands of men.

Question: to Sen. Slotkins question to Pete Hegseth regarding directing the military to execute an illegal order from the executive. Is there such thing as an illegal order if it comes from the executive given the supreme courts take on presidential immunity?

Just because the President is immune from prosecution for giving unlawful orders doesn’t necessarily mean subordinates who follow them are immune. (Who would prosecute them is another question.)

I would think the constitution overrules the President, but remembering the 45 take a massive shit on the constitution makes me think big changes are on the way. God help the decent service members who want to uphold the constitution.

And Senator Joni Ernst, herself an armed services veteran and sexual abuse survivor, announced last night she would support Hegseth's nomination. I am disgusted beyond belief.

I, too, have never voted for. I have never agreed with her politics. Seems like she trots out being a vet and/or sexual abuse surviver when it is politically expedient.

Awful, crude, regressive. Other than a few adjectives, I am stunned beyond words. That said, how are men being raised that they have to be told this? Do they hate women that much?

they're all on board with "your body my choice" - it's the policy of the soon to be commander in chief. We heard him say it in 2016 FFS. I'm so sorry you went through that. That any woman did. Oh it's so frustrating - not only do they refuse any progress, they want to drag women back to the cave.