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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 03:24 PM
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11. FS-
This is saying something very damning to active duty gay men and women serving, in forced secrecy, today.

"It's about their actual competence."

Wow.

Ammo to distrust our AD gay men and women, to spread division when matters of life and death are at stake and to maybe, an argument to get them out even sooner?

>>Critcher and Ferguson stressed that this effect is not about "mental anguish" caused by concealing one's sexual orientation. Even participants who reported they were not fatigued or upset by the conversation still demonstrated the effect.

"It's nothing about participants reporting distress," Ferguson said. "It's about their actual competence."<<

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  -Study shows DADT hurts military readiness FreeState  Jun-11-09 01:21 PM   #0 
  - No shit.  TheWraith   Jun-11-09 01:27 PM   #1 
  - Military Sweeties Cannot Tolerate Hearing About Gay Partners  jeremyfive   Jun-11-09 02:44 PM   #9 
  - it's a weak basis for the argument though  sui generis   Jun-11-09 01:30 PM   #2 
  - I dont think it would be possible to do such a control group  FreeState   Jun-11-09 01:42 PM   #3 
     - the fact is the people they're testing are young  sui generis   Jun-11-09 02:05 PM   #5 
     - How do you know the age of the study participants? I cant find the range listed? n/t  FreeState   Jun-11-09 02:06 PM   #6 
        - do you suppose they're testing people past recruiting age?  sui generis   Jun-11-09 02:11 PM   #7 
           - They can't be testing trained military personnel because they can't "tell."  bluedawg12   Jun-11-09 03:32 PM   #13 
     - sui g has a good point. We don't need any more "queer science." DADT is bad for the nation.  bluedawg12   Jun-11-09 02:29 PM   #8 
        - I agree to a point - I need to see the study first as well  FreeState   Jun-11-09 02:59 PM   #10 
           - FS-  bluedawg12   Jun-11-09 03:24 PM   #11 
              - I see that - but what Im trying to say is that "actual competence" is effected by many things  FreeState   Jun-11-09 03:32 PM   #12 
                 - We could  bluedawg12   Jun-11-09 04:22 PM   #14 
                    - LOL - thanks for the laugh:) n/t  FreeState   Jun-11-09 04:24 PM   #15 
  - DADT is bad for gays and str8's, bad for unit cohesion and for national security.  bluedawg12   Jun-11-09 01:57 PM   #4 
 

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