Comments | desert_vixen: My Letter in the Army Times

desert_vixen

My Letter in the Army Times

Jan 07, 2010 14:42

In response to the letter by SSG Lambert (‘Discriminating Against Dads’), I have to say how disappointing it is to see an NCO expressing not only a sexist attitude, but wrong information as well. Female Soldiers do not get pregnant for “extra uniforms” or “tennis shoes”, and we do not get “months of convalescent leave”. Female Soldiers get ( Read more... )

rant, army, sexism, wtf

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desert_vixen January 8 2010, 04:44:48 UTC

I was a little disappointed myself.

DV

raeyn January 7 2010, 21:55:26 UTC

Hooray for getting published, but ack, they really did take out the good bits.

desert_vixen January 8 2010, 04:45:55 UTC

I know.

DV

not_from_stars January 7 2010, 22:28:07 UTC

My goddess! What they did print made it sound like a completely different letter than what you had written. It made it miss the point completely.

desert_vixen January 8 2010, 04:52:44 UTC

I know. It turned into Pregnancy Facts 101, although they did keep the last line about why female soldiers get pregnant.

Welcome, btw - I friended you back!

DV

gi_janearng January 7 2010, 22:56:51 UTC

Did you email them and ask why they edited it? I sure would grill them about day and night and I wouldn't be one damn bit surprised if it was a bunch of men that were doing the editing too. :/

desert_vixen January 8 2010, 04:57:03 UTC

I sent them a polite email this evening expressing my curiosity.

The section has male and female names, and the senior editor is (I would guess from the spelling) female.

I have a suspicion that they didn't want to print something that seems aimed at personally responding to the guy's original letters, but he basically bashed on female soldiers in general, and that was okay.

DV

katyblue January 7 2010, 23:33:04 UTC

Yeah, they def pulled the meat out of it. I like your argument about the OP's "moral grounds" and the part about not using a couple of sheisty soldiers t represent the entire female Army population at large. I'm freaking sick of it too. I'm not even a mom. However, in my opinion, it is way more acceptable to see single NCOs and officers pregnant than jr enlisted. You may not agree with that, but everytime I see a single jr enlisted soldier pregnant I inwardly cringe at her representation of female army soldiers.

desert_vixen January 8 2010, 05:02:51 UTC

Thanks!

I worry about the junior enlisted, but it's because they seem to have the most problems and the least effective support systems.

DV