15 Apr 2009, 12:50 am
Bluestocking wrote:
I have cousins in the military, and I have a friend whose father is in the military, as well as several high school classmates deployed to Iraq at the moment. I just am curious, am I a gray area in being allowed in the military, as I'm bisexual? 
I'd be pretty valuable as a Russian or Japanese translator, oh well...
Regarding the worries about gay soldiers raping male soldiers, as well as women getting assaulted in the military: If you want to change that, you don't do it by banning those groups from the military. If that change is going to come, then change the military culture which allow such a hostile and traumatizing environment to occur without raising eyebrows. Workers in all fields are the best workers when they care about the person next to them in combat, not when they're frightened of them.
I'd be pretty valuable as a Russian or Japanese translator, oh well... Regarding the worries about gay soldiers raping male soldiers, as well as women getting assaulted in the military: If you want to change that, you don't do it by banning those groups from the military. If that change is going to come, then change the military culture which allow such a hostile and traumatizing environment to occur without raising eyebrows. Workers in all fields are the best workers when they care about the person next to them in combat, not when they're frightened of them.
Good point. But beyond the concerns of some gays being in the military just to get booty, I see no reason why they can serve as long as they keep their sex lives seperate from their military life. As for women in combat, that's a whole other story that deserves its own thread.
