And what rights do women lack in 2017? Moreover, what rights do men have that women lack?
Not the subject to misbehaviors ... but REAL lacking rights?
There's no excuse for bad behavior and I'll never condone it. Cat calls et al ... but at the same time, when you dress for cat calls, expect to GET cat calls.
I was in a FB discussion with a person who I later learned was a 20 year retired USAF LTC ... she'd been a squadron commander and twice promoted "below the zone"
The pitch of her rhetoric would have been understandable coming from a female in Saudi Arabia ... but that CLEARLY wasn't her experience. So once again ... lathered-up about something, but it wasn't clear what that something REALLY was ... as it ... REALITY here in THESE United States of America. She literally used her new pink hair color as an exhibit of her oppression. Ah ... men can't have beards in the USAF, either ... so ... it's not a sexist/misogynist policy. It's a discipline and practical policy ... get a hair cut and don't resemble a circus act with your 'style.' You'd think a squadron commander would have understood that.
There's no male/female pay scale in the armed forces, there's only rank and years of service. Rank is supposed to be earned.
I'd submit, in general, women have been the recipient of additional/preferred consideration simply because they are women. in this FB correspondent's case, she failed to note the inequality of having to perform undesirable duty for most A-10 pilots (Battalion Air Liaison) . This may have changed recently with the opening of offensive combat forces jobs to women, but during this LC's career, that wasn't so ... and the result was MEN had to continue to fill the undesirable job that a female Hawg driver wasn't assigned to do.
That was but ONE example.
One of my former Hawg Drivers admitted she'd used pregnancy to avoid "ANOTHER" desert deployment. Really? How many of her male squadron mates deployed, per their duty, when their wives were pregnant? Or the single male who may or may not have had a pregnant girlfriend?
Airline ... plenty of women at the airline ... paid the exact same thing as their male counterparts. In fact, Family leave actually grants some women the time off their male counterparts may not be able to obtain ... paid or otherwise.
Family law ... custody of children ... alimony? Is there any rational observer who can say there's equality here?
We were supposed to be educated on decency and the violations therein by the new POTUS ... by people wearing genitalia replicas on their noggins???? Give me a break.
So ... while my examples of equality are focused on what I know ... military and airline ... they are no less valid than anyone else's and I return to the question ... what was the purpose of the effort other than to rile some dander?
And ... as Sangre highlighted ... organized by a person who seeks to institute shariah law here in These United States. Stunning, really.
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