A new report says female soldiers face rampant sexism, sexual harassment and other gender-related challenges in male dominated Army special operations units.

Female soldiers face rampant sexism, harassment and other gender-related challenges in male dominated Army special operations units, according to a report Monday, eight years after the Pentagon opened all combat jobs to women.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range of “overtly sexist” comments from male soldiers, including a broad aversion to females serving in commando units. The comments, it said, are “not outliers” but represent a common sentiment that women don’t belong on special operations teams.

“The idea that women are equally as physically, mentally and emotionally capable to perform majority of jobs is quite frankly ridiculous,” said one male commenter. Others said they’d quit before serving on a team with a female, and that serving in such a situation it would create problems and jealousy among their wives.

The blunt and sometimes crass comments ring familiar to many who have watched the difficult transition as women moved into the military’s front line combat jobs. And they paint a disturbing, challenging picture for leaders.

  • freagle
    57·
    10 months ago

    France, England, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany. All of them were brutal colonialists all over the world. Even Denmark and Sweden had overseas colonies. All of these were founded on the belief that it was the proper thing to subjugate entire continents, steal their resources, commit mass murder and even attempt complete extinctions, enslave anyone you couldn’t kill, use r*pe as part of proto-eugenics, then later engage in actual eugenics. And all of this was founded on misogyny. Show me a European country that maintains an unbroken historical tradition of women as the highest elders or show me a European country that has restored women as the highest elders and you can prove me wrong.

    • Novman@feddit.it
      42·
      10 months ago

      Turkish empire, Mongols, Chinese, Arabs , Zulu Empire, Atzecs, Japanese empire. Found in those empires the good matriarcal society. Gengis Khan is a good start. At least starting to study history is a good start.

      • freagle
        55·
        10 months ago

        Nice whataboutism. Yes, you can read Wikipedia, but historical analysis isn’t about what names are listed under a topic in an encyclopedia. The difference between those empires and the European empires I listed are as follows:

        A) the European empires subjugated 80% of the world’s population.
        B) the European empires invented the concepts of racialized capitalism that dominate the entire world today.
        C) the European empires still exist.
        D) where the European empires no longer exist in direct occupation, the relationships of subjugation and extraction still exist in the exact same places. E) the European empires have killed orders of magnitude more people than all other empires combined and the killing is continuous to this day.
        F) the genocide of the European empires is still happening to this day.
        G) all anti-imperialist struggles happening around the world today and for the last 50 years have been struggles against the European empires.

        None of these can be said about other empires. So quit your whataboutism. Just because Gengis Khan existed doesn’t make the currently ongoing 600-year European imperial project any better.

        • Novman@feddit.it
          31·
          10 months ago

          I don’t feel ashamed by european history and americans are the last people that can teach ethics to the world. What i see is an hatred against european people and the only thing that i understand is that for some american people, europeans are their enemies and subhumans. This explains perfectly how usa do everything to make european colonies poorer and less populated.

          • freagle
            25·
            10 months ago

            I don’t feel ashamed by European history

            That’s sort of all that needs to be said. The European colonial project is the deepest wound currently affecting the world’s people and subjugated 80% of the world’s population in a brutal, racist, misogynist, genocidal regime of hyperextraction, extinction, and devastation. If you don’t feel ashamed of that, there’s not much else to say.

            The USA, Canada, and Australia are European settler colonial extensions of the brutal history of Europe. Europe set the indigenous genocide in motion. That the USA decided to create a distinct political regime that broke from Europe does not in anyway break the actual historical lineage with Europe. Even today many of the leaders of America trace their roots to European aristocracy and royalty.

            Europe is THE scourge of the world’s people and has been for 600 years. That’s not racism. Europeans invented racism. Fighting Europe is anti-racism. Getting Europe out of where it violently inserted itself is anti-racism. Extracting everything Europe stole from the rest of the world and leaving Europe impoverished is anti-racism.

            • Novman@feddit.it
              21·
              10 months ago

              Don’t project your hate and the crimes of your government on other people ( btw, what polish or swiss or romanians have something to do with colonialism ). You are very racist against a continent and his population, this is clear about your words.