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By Feminist in Combat Boots • 12 years ago

Coast Guard morale events for men not women.

Who would have thought that I’d be sitting here writing about Cheerleaders? I am not going to debate on rather or not cheerleading is a sport. I won’t even debate if fake boobs and mini skirt uniforms while cheering is good or bad for girls and women. What I am going to write about is the use of women wearing skimpy clothes for the “morale treatment” of men in the United States Armed Forces.

Last week, the United States Coast Guard, invited on board several members of the Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders to provide a morale booster to the crew and to promote safety on the waters. I am all for water safety and as a veteran myself I do care a whole lot about our troops.

When we say we want to support our troops. When we say we want a morale booster for our troops. Let do something that would benefit ALL of our troops and not just the heterosexual males.

I am sure some women do want to see other women wearing close to nothing cheering about boating safety. If that is your thing that is great, however, not all women do. The Coast Guard is forgetting about their little alleged claim that “women are equal.”

By Feminist in Combat Boots • 13 years ago

Send a message to the Coast Guard: A janitor closet is for brooms – not for locking up rape survivors

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Quick, what comes to mind when you think of a janitor closet? Brooms, mops, and other cleaning supplies, right? How about a rape survivor? Would you lock a rape survivor in a janitor closet for reporting a rape? Probably not. What if she was bleeding from the head? Would that make it okay to lock her up in a janitor closet? Well according to one Chief in the United States Coast Guard that is exactly what he did to a rape survivor.

The survivor reports being locked up in a closet while her supervisor conducted an ‘investigation’, need I say that her supervisor drives Coast Guard boats for a living and does not have training to conduct a rape ...

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By Feminist in Combat Boots • 13 years ago

Military Sexual Trauma lawsuit — the day after.

Imagine if you were the CEO of a large company and a lawsuit was just filed against you by one of the nation’s most powerful lawyer on behalf of seventeen former employees. Your former employees claim that they were raped by fellow colleagues while being employed by your company and that their allegations resulted in them being fired while the rapists were still being employed by the company. Every major media in the world from the Washington Post to the China Times made mention of the story detailing first person detail of the rape. All eyes are now on your company waiting for it to respond to the lawsuit and ...

By Feminist in Combat Boots • 13 years ago

Military Sexual Trauma lawsuit — the day after.

By Feminist in Combat Boots • 13 years ago

My Duty to Speak. Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma silence no longer.

According to the Department of Defense, they have a total of 3230 reported rapes in the military for fiscal year 2009 or roughly a rape is reported every four hours. According to experts from the Department of Defense, the Military Rape Crisis Center and the Department of Veterans Affairs many more rape cases go unreported or are under reported perhaps making Military Sexual Trauma the least reported crime committed against American citizens.

We can look at statistics but it does not give us the full picture. Yes, 3230 reported rapes in the military but what is the story behind each of those rapes. Survivors now have a chance to share their stories.

Sarah from the United States Marine ...

By Feminist in Combat Boots • 13 years ago

Get used to being raped or get out.

After being severely beaten and raped by a fellow Coast Guardsman, the female victim was said to be at fault for choosing a career that was predominately for men, according to official Coast Guard records.

After the victim reported the alleged rape in 2006 to her command at Coast Guard Station Burlington, VT, her command locked the victim up in a janitor closet while members of her command that were not qualified to conduct a rape investigation concluded that it was a misunderstanding and no charges would be filed. The victim said she was ordered to clean out the attic with the alleged rapist, where they were suppose to “work out their differences”. ...

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