Fox Pundit Says Women In The Military Should ‘Expect’ To Be Raped
The Pentagon announced new rules last week easing the ban on women serving in combat. While conservatives like Rick Santorum are a little uneasy with the news, the announcement only formalizes military practices that were already taking place.
But Fox News contributor Liz Trotta’s commentary on the matter took the issue to a whole other level. She’s not really concerned about the “controversy” surrounding the Pentagon’s announcement. For Trotta, the issue is having “women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time.” She cited a recent Pentagon report that violent sex crimes in the military have increased over the last 6 years and said women should “expect” it, decrying more levels of bureaucracy to support women who have been “raped too much“:
TROTTA: "But while all of this is going on, just a few weeks ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta commented on a new Pentagon report on sexual abuse in the military. I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. And the sexual abuse report says that there has been, since 2006, a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults. Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it’s strictly been a question of pressure from the feminist.
And the feminists have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims’ advocates, sexual response coordinators. … So, you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much."
To his credit, Fox host Eric Shawn tried to talk Trotta down a bit. “You certainly want the people fighting the war to be protected from anything that could be illegal,” he said. But Trotta wouldn’t have it. “Nice try Eric,” she said, “This whole question of women in the military has not been aired properly, and it’s the great sleeping giant.”
Just to clarify, Trotta complained about government supporting women who have been “raped too much,” a statement seeming to imply that there is an acceptable amount of rape one can or should endure in order to prevent more layers of bureaucracy from swooping in to help out.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2
No, No, No, No, FUCK YOU.
The Pentagon announced new rules last week easing the ban on women serving in combat. While conservatives like Rick Santorum are a little uneasy with the news, the announcement only formalizes military practices that were already taking place.
But Fox News contributor Liz Trotta’s commentary on the matter took the issue to a whole other level. She’s not really concerned about the “controversy” surrounding the Pentagon’s announcement. For Trotta, the issue is having “women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time.” She cited a recent Pentagon report that violent sex crimes in the military have increased over the last 6 years and said women should “expect” it, decrying more levels of bureaucracy to support women who have been “raped too much“:
TROTTA: "But while all of this is going on, just a few weeks ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta commented on a new Pentagon report on sexual abuse in the military. I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. And the sexual abuse report says that there has been, since 2006, a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults. Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it’s strictly been a question of pressure from the feminist.
And the feminists have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims’ advocates, sexual response coordinators. … So, you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much."
To his credit, Fox host Eric Shawn tried to talk Trotta down a bit. “You certainly want the people fighting the war to be protected from anything that could be illegal,” he said. But Trotta wouldn’t have it. “Nice try Eric,” she said, “This whole question of women in the military has not been aired properly, and it’s the great sleeping giant.”
Just to clarify, Trotta complained about government supporting women who have been “raped too much,” a statement seeming to imply that there is an acceptable amount of rape one can or should endure in order to prevent more layers of bureaucracy from swooping in to help out.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2
No, No, No, No, FUCK YOU.
You should expect people to come your way and kick your ass
The "whole question" of women in the military was answered in the GODDAMNED 19 FUCKING 70s.
Wtf is that idea, that women can be raped too much, as if it's possible for her to be raped too little? Once is too damn much, this is not a difficult concept.
Also "Flames on the side of my face" tag is most appropriate.
By their comrades in arms, however?
FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE NO NONO NONONONONONONONONO!
Who is this woman and how can I smack her?
But it is reasonable to expect your fellow soldiers not to rape you.
Why does nobody see a problem with the fact that our military is apparently full of rapists? Getting raped isn't just something that happens, after all; somebody's got to do it. I kind of figured that we had codes of conduct governing our soldiers' behavior for a reason.
If there's such a big problem with them being rapists, why aren't we talking about whether men belong in the military?
That'll teach me for thinking we'd moved beyond the miniskirt argument when it came to violence against women. Silly me.
Edited because I forgot a word.
Edited at 2012-02-14 12:37 pm (UTC)
So what is The Feminist? Is she a giant-sized superhero that goes around leaning on military personnel?
...Wonder Woman? :p
It is all part of Fox News' strategic vision of dragging people's expectations of normalcy and "the middle" to the right.
It's also not lost on me that Fox News, the MOST PATRIOTIC NEWS CHANNEL EVAR, is calling the sacred and holy troops a bunch of rapists. I mean, which, rape and sexual assault are huge problems, but I'm sure they'd be full of self-righteous froth if Rachel Maddow highlighted the frequency of rape and sexual assault committed by the troops.
FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
So according to you, you POS woman who should never speak about women, it's the women's fault. Men are such hormonal creatures that the second a woman gets into their personal area, they just have to rape her!!!!!!!!!!!! Because God forbid men actually control themselves and be held accountable for choosing to do a very violent act to a woman.
GMAFB.
REALLY.
How about NO.
/vomit
Edited at 2012-02-14 02:36 pm (UTC)
They claim to love their country and are all patriotic but they do their country a great disservice by being...there at all.
The problem with Fox is that they do seem to employ a lot of crazy people, who say a lot of dumbass stuff. People expect them now to say crazy shit, so to pull in viewers, they get crazier and then you end up with stuff like "women in the military should expect to be raped".