Seriously. If there’s any group of people I’ve met who are rather low with homophobia, it’s the BM Crowd. Sure, we throw out a gay joke every now and then, but then we have no low for insults.
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Because all of those things are connected, right?
I’ve recently formed the opinion servicepeople should be segregated as follows:* Heteo males alongside homo females
- Hetero females alongside homo males
Low homophobia? I hope you’re not implying that Dias isn’t homophobic.
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Usage of the F-word (the one used to disparage gay people) does not necessarily imply homophobia, P&R.
Yeah, ya British cigarette.
Gay guys make everything more fun and lesbians are just awesome.
I see no issue.
FINE, We will make our own military and it will be mega-awesome.
Weren’t those women who cared to join the Army all Lesbians to begin with, anyway?
Just wonderin’
On the internet the term “fag” is more of a title akin to “Mr” or “Mrs”, eg consolefag.
Directing the term as a descriptor eg “ur a faget” is considered a low level insult along the lines of “you smell”.
lol fag
i am homophobe
Burbinator, we all know you take it up the ass. No sense in trying to hiding it.
aw shucks 
Because of the utter ignorance of this, I feel obliged to reply, and I’m sorry for straying from the topic, but, our military is the only reason we’re not Russia’s or North Korea’s bitch right now. The image our military portrays is that of one that could kick ass if we need to. If they fail in portraying that image, someone attacks. But we aren’t failing, so we don’t have some crazed foreign military marching to the White House to hang the president by his balls and roast him over an open fire made from the papers of Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. Not to mention our “You shoot us, we shoot you” policy. If anyone launches nukes at us, they’ll get nukes launched at them, and, even though we can’t stop the nukes from hitting our homeland, neither can they. 'Tis what’s known as Mutual Assured Destruction. So, our military’s mere presence is protecting those rights.
And, yes, we are overseas, helping nations who need it, but it’s not going to waste. One of our local battalions just got back from their second deployment helping the police forces in Iraq and Afghanistan reorganize and grow, teaching them the basics for them to build on (i.e. unit based police system, hierarchy, etc). I don’t think they’re going to be going “Those Allah-damned Americans!” in 2011 when supposedly the last of our troops are set to leave.
ON TOPIC: I’m quite happy (gay?) about it myself. Now, obviously, if there comes to be a big issue where all the gay guys are having orgies in the cabins of military airplanes, I will change my mind, but, I don’t really think that’ll happen. People know how to control themselves, and, if they don’t, they don’t last very long in the military anyhow.
What hwfg1 said. And thank you for serving sir. I too have heard many times of men coming back to propaganda BS being regurgitated by the media and they are wondering why folks think we are doing nothing but causing problems over there. When it is very obvious to the men actually serving that we ARE doing a good thing to many many many innocents.
And gays in the military? Perhaps they can do something about those gosh awful colors of the uniform! Put a little style in gunnery!
Er…me? I haven’t served…yet. =P I’m planning on it though.
i have this rock that keeps away tigers
Probably (or, hopefully) someone already explained, but the big difference is that before, all those heterosexual soldiers around a DADT soldier could brag about how they shagged fifty ladies last week, or how many blowjobs they had, and everything was fine, but if the DADT soldier said “I am gay, I didn’t shag any ladies yet”, he was fired.
Now, this has been changed, and unless he gets a massive hard-on in the showers, he’s fine.
No, you are not failing. You just miss-aim. OBL is in Afghanistan, yet you invade Iraq. You send in assholes who like to listen to “Burn motherfucker burn” while firing their cannons against civilian compounds, and call it “Justice”.
I have a news for you: Your military is huge, but at the same time not exactly “flexible”. The whole “other” world saw what can one CIA-trained guy do with a couple of knives and some mockup explosives, if he’s determined. The US military wasn’t even able to get a fighter jet over Washington, until it was too late.
When you finally arrive at some destination, you are certainly able to fuck it all up beyond all repair, but are you certain you’re fucking up the right country? What did Iraq ever have to do with Al Qaida? Oh, right – the airplanes use fuel, and the fuel is made of oil, and Iraq has oil fields. Right. My bad.
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Enjoy your billions spendings on the Military.
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