What kind of people are you?
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The very concept that an officer in the Marine Corps would be so emotionally crippled that being called the wrong pronoun would be a threat to their health is laughable. Marines close with and destroy the enemy in close (door to door/hand to hand) combat. A Marine officer, so emotionally frail as to have mere words threaten their health, isn’t fit to lead warriors into combat.
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Amen
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It boggles the mind to think about what sort of person could even come up with this stuff, let alone defend it.
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The premise that those possessed of the warrior ethos are so weak of mind, and spirit, that words would break their health is beneath entertainment by any warrior. Demanding special pronouns doesn’t improve combat readiness. And those so worried about offending someone with words probably doesn’t have the courage, or fortitude, to use cold steel.
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What makes it “our”?
I’m sure this $2 million report from the University of Pittsburgh about getting rid of Sir and Ma’am was well worth the money…considering the vast amount of knowledge and history of the USMC that institution possess.
I’m personally relieved that $2 million wasn’t wasted on such trivial nonsense such as combat training or updated equipment. No, it’s far more important that Marines don’t offend the overly sensitive than it is for them to be more effective at their jobs.
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Should the military just pretend that transgender and non-binary people don’t exist for 40 or 50 years like they did with homosexuals that were serving their country?
I’m impressed that they are trying to get out ahead of this. More and more kids are adopting this vocabulary and identifying as non-binary or gender neutral.
The military budget is almost a trillion dollars, that’s like someone with $860,000 spending 2 bucks for some info. The equipment and combat training are safe.
Well apparently it’s the cisgender and their supporters here that are demanding the special nouns.
The report is advising to remove the nouns all together and teach the recruits that it is the rank and position that is the only thing that matters.
The concept that a Marine Corps officer would be emotionally crippled by being addressed by their rank instead of Sir or Ma’am is laughable.
I didn’t see anything in the article about anyone’s health being threatened by this, where are you getting that from?
Nonsense. In basic I addressed a female instructor as Sir once out of habit as females were never around. I wasn’t punished and it’s ridiculous to think anyone would be punished for slipping up.
New recruits coming in wouldn’t have that problem at all and it would be in short order that everyone was used to addressing superior officers with their rank.
All of the hand wringing about it destroying moral is the same hyperbole as integration of black and white, men and women and openly gay soldiers.
The Marines will survive.
You didn’t pay attention to the post that reply was too.
Now I know your full of it.
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You were the one who introduced the point of the term used to reference the officer affecting their health. And you were referring to the use of sir and ma’am, not the use of rank, when you made the comment. But then that is the entire point of your argument. That an individual officer’s feelings about what they think they are would be more important to unit cohesion than reality.
And anyone who has served knows that members of the military have absolutely no tolerance for posers. That includes men posing as women and women posing as men. And before you rush to the denial of existence argument, understand that no one is claiming that men posing as women, or women posing as men, don’t exist. We’re just pointing out exactly what they exist as.
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There’s one difference, the gays or whatever they identify themselves as keep their mouths shut knowing the consequences.
No, but why should the military adapt to the desires of a few? Should it adapt to the will of every other small group. If not, at what point should that stop? When should the military start expecting individuals who wish to serve to adapt to it’s customs, courtesies and general overall ideology? Or should that just take a backseat to grievance?
$2 million is $2 million regardless of how large a figure you compare it to. It’s quite odd you put it like that, as the typical gripe is that the millitary spends far too much money as it is. But, I suppose when it comes to favored issues, the gripe about spending such large sums becomes moot.
And no, the equipment and training are not safe…they never have been. There have always been issues with the lack thereof, especially so in the Marine Corps.
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This entire issue is nothing more than the creation of a grievance out of thin air and applying it to where it never existed for no other purpose than feigned virtue.
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Most of the Left, which is virtually everyone in hierarchy of the military and government related positions view conservatives as the enemy. I would discourage any conservative from joining. There’s plenty of other avenues to do with one’s life.
North Korea-loving sock accounts that never served their country in any way shape or form have no business talking about patriotism. 
Also, the more commons things like this don’t do seem to do much for retention. lol
Actually, everybody should pretend it doesn’t exist, by not making special rules regarding it that are applied to everyone whether they want them to be or not. That is the only way it will ever be seamlessly integrated into society. All that these woke nonsense rules do is bring attention to the differences and foment resentment between those who are and those who are not members of the aberrant group.
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Of course I did. But I only quoted the part of your response that I didn’t understand. Would you rather that I had asked @STODR what kind of people he thinks you are?
