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- news@lemmy.world
Female soldiers face rampant sexism, harassment and other gender-related challenges in male dominated Army special operations units, according to a report Monday, eight years after the Pentagon opened all combat jobs to women.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range of “overtly sexist” comments from male soldiers, including a broad aversion to females serving in commando units. The comments, it said, are “not outliers” but represent a common sentiment that women don’t belong on special operations teams.
“The idea that women are equally as physically, mentally and emotionally capable to perform majority of jobs is quite frankly ridiculous,” said one male commenter. Others said they’d quit before serving on a team with a female, and that serving in such a situation it would create problems and jealousy among their wives.
The blunt and sometimes crass comments ring familiar to many who have watched the difficult transition as women moved into the military’s front line combat jobs. And they paint a disturbing, challenging picture for leaders.
I don’t feel ashamed by european history and americans are the last people that can teach ethics to the world. What i see is an hatred against european people and the only thing that i understand is that for some american people, europeans are their enemies and subhumans. This explains perfectly how usa do everything to make european colonies poorer and less populated.
That’s sort of all that needs to be said. The European colonial project is the deepest wound currently affecting the world’s people and subjugated 80% of the world’s population in a brutal, racist, misogynist, genocidal regime of hyperextraction, extinction, and devastation. If you don’t feel ashamed of that, there’s not much else to say.
The USA, Canada, and Australia are European settler colonial extensions of the brutal history of Europe. Europe set the indigenous genocide in motion. That the USA decided to create a distinct political regime that broke from Europe does not in anyway break the actual historical lineage with Europe. Even today many of the leaders of America trace their roots to European aristocracy and royalty.
Europe is THE scourge of the world’s people and has been for 600 years. That’s not racism. Europeans invented racism. Fighting Europe is anti-racism. Getting Europe out of where it violently inserted itself is anti-racism. Extracting everything Europe stole from the rest of the world and leaving Europe impoverished is anti-racism.
Don’t project your hate and the crimes of your government on other people ( btw, what polish or swiss or romanians have something to do with colonialism ). You are very racist against a continent and his population, this is clear about your words.