Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
I went in 1982. There was a guy from South Dakota who said that he had never seen a black guy in person before he joined. He had seen plenty of Injuns, though and he had a bad opinion of them.I went through basic training in 1981, and we had a whole segment on race relations and gender equity, because this was often the first time that a lot of these white suburban kids ever associated with black people, much less had to share a barracks with them. The training was about four hours and it included a film that was about 10 years out of date.
Yeah . . . a few more items.So this is really nothing new, except they have a few more items to cover.
Do you think they teach females what to do when a trans-identifying male rapes them in the female latrine? If they even have female latrines? Seriously, is their policy the same as woke school boards who cover up such assaults? Would it be wrong to even bring up the possibility of a female being raped by a trans-identifying male since officially that does not happen?
Just how much time should be spent on pronouns, would you say? What would be the ideal amount of time needed for that important training?The reality is, Basic Training is actually longer than when I was in. It was 8 weeks in 1981. It's 10 weeks now. I am pretty sure they don't spend those extra two weeks on pronouns.
"Sir" and "Ma'am" are still enforced in the military, as far as I know. I've said this before, but not just about the military: we need a new honorific to replace those words or at least to use when gender is not apparent. With the near-infinite number of genders you insist are out there, I guess the military needs to come up with one and teach it.So how much time do you think the military is really spending on equity training?
It's your crazyness you're insisting we feed into, so come up with something. Just not "Comrade." Maybe "Yes, Officer," "No, Officer," etc.
Then they need to teach telling superiors one's pronouns as part of reporting: "Officer, Private Flops, he-him-his, reports as ordered, OFFICER!" What a formidable military we will have, then.
I guess you're right, that will be time-consuming. Given the state the Democrats have put public schools in and that only a HS diploma is required to join, I imagine most of that two weeks, plus extra weeks in AIT will be needed for remedial reading.
They'll have to take time for pronoun classes out of less important training like shooting, deploying hand grenades and bayonet tactics. All those are macro-aggressions to be discouraged anyway . . .