Jophiel wrote:
... the risk of dealing with homophobic retards outweighs the joys of saying "nice *****" in the shower. Also, there's still harassment policies in place.
So, will the harassment policies you put such weight in outweigh the label of anyone who complains as a "homophobic ******"?
I don't mean this as a joke or a flippant comment. You're a JAG officer. There's been an incident where a straight soldier beat up a gay soldier for "looking at me sexually". Which one do you charge with a crime? How do you make that decision? Is there any good way to handle this?
Now. You're a liberal internet poster. Which side do you take? How will your opinion and those of all the other loud liberals looking for a bigot to blame affect the decisions of the JAG officer?
This will happen. And the straight guy *will* be labeled as a bigot by the very posters on this forum who are insisting that it wont make any difference. And the public pressure for the military to protect the rights of gay soldiers to serve openly will result in a skewing of the very sexual harassment rules you claim will prevent any problems from occurring.
You will apply a double standard to this, even if you claim now that you wont. You will view the same exact exchange between a gay man and a straight man differently than if it were between a straight man and a straight women. No matter how much you think you are an enlightened person who does not judge based on gender or sexual orientation, you will apply bias. And you wont be alone.
Some of us can see these patterns before they happen. Others will only see them after they happen. Most people, unfortunately, will continue to deny the pattern even after the fact, and thus will to fail to see the next occurrence coming. I can only point it out to you. I can't make you see.
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The actual benefit to repealing DADT isn't the ability to stare at penises, but that if your sexuality is discovered (intentionally or not) you don't automatically lose your career.
Nah. The overwhelming benefit to repealing DADT is the ability to label those who oppose it bigots, score points with gay rights groups, and make anti-military groups thrilled. And if the cost is making a whole bunch of people unhappy and disrupting our military along the way, it's a small price to pay for having the issue.