Reply #71: Yes, indeed. Thank you for saying it.

[Morgana LaFey]

There is NO difference between what is happening to these women and the woman-hating culture we all live in, except in degree.

The military is an especially anti-woman institution. The troops are typically compared to and called women (using whatever slang words occur to the drill sergents or other disciplinarians) -- as an insult, to humiliate them and try to get them to perform. You can't build an institution which has ANY "respect for women" from there. You just can't. Their own training methods reinforce women's second-class status, their worthlessness, their lack of humanity, and ultimately their rapability.

Same here at DU. You can't go from calling Ann Coulter horrible gender slurs to pretending you have any respect for women. It's just not possible, doesn't compute.