Let's "Tell It Like It Is"!!!
(Kudos to Aaron Neville)
I rushed to my keyboard this morning before I "lost" the term I just heard on one of the T.V. channels (us old guys don't have a lot of short-term memory left). GENDER SENSITIZATION -- What the Hell??, You might ask. Upon reflection, and taking the program for which it was used into account, the term is an update for the list of feminist code words that have hounded us since the 70's.
Last I checked, "gender" also includes male animals, but their focus is on the "rape" awakening that is taking place in India. It appears to be their "Arab Spring"?? Well, bring it on! -- because we're ALL involved in this someway, aren't we?
I was commissioned in 1962. During the next 20 years I rose through the ranks in the Air Force.
I wrote my first Master's Thesis (American Values in Black and White) in 1972; largely to get at the history of "race" as practiced in the United States and how that impacted the "Hell" of race tensions taking place in the United States Military, both here and around the world. These were still early days of the Truman military integration Executive Order.
As we struggle today to replace our current Secretary of Defense, its becoming clear that the new guy will have to face a repeat of that racial Hell in the guise of a "rape epidemic" that has arisen and cannot, so far, be "managed", "controlled", "extinguished", -- take your pick. It seems that the military has been a constant "laboratory" in which this nation continues its "domestic wars" of race and, now, gender. It has always been a portal for economic advancement.
As I entered into my 20 years of service, the military was ushering out the remnants of WW-II and Korean War "leadership"; replacing it with more "culturally sensitive" leaders. As I was leaving, there began around the time of Reagan's ascendancy a replacement of the "culturally sensitive" leadership with a raw, racist, Neo-con group who buried the "Hatch Act" and became openly involved in right-wing politics. This led to the debacles of the "W" era. Those "political Generals" are well known by now.
In between, 1973, Nixon got rid of the Draft; causing an immediate mass exit of those officers and enlisted with high I.Q's. Finance is not the only headache the military of today presents to the new Chief!
This new phrase (title) is now "sprung" and, I'm sure, will rapidly spread. But don't laugh! These racial and gender traumas are real and not just a game of language. They are deeply buried in the psyche of our total population, and are being reflected from other parts of the planet, due to the technological advances we created to win the Cold War. Could it be that our mean-spirited, heavily armed, and fringe-infected part of our white male population is the result of these movements within our military over the past 50 years?
You bet'cha!!
Stay Vigilant!
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