Air Force General Blames Increase in Military Rape on Hookup Culture -- Daily Beast
Is an uptick in military sex assault just due to our hookup culture? That’s what an Air Force general said on Capitol Hill Tuesday, testimony Senator Gillibrand tells Eleanor Clift is ‘outrageous.’
If it was possible to make a bad situation worse, that’s what Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh managed to do at a Senate hearing Tuesday morning when he blamed an increase in sexual assault in the military on the “hookup” culture prevalent among young people. Welsh said 20 percent of female recruits report being assaulted before they joined the military. “They come in from a society where this occurs,” he said.
Not only did Welsh’s remark seem to place blame on the victim, it also revealed a tendency to view sexual assault in the most benign way, as a date gone bad or a breakdown in communications rather than a violent act. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the first woman to chair the personnel subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, told The Daily Beast it was “outrageous testimony” that showed a fundamental misunderstanding about the violent nature of sexual assault.
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Update: Air Force General Mark Welsh Blames 'Hookup Mentality' for Rapes in Military -- Opposing View
My Comment: A horrible choice of words, and if the General is smart .... he should apologize and retract this statement. Eleanor Clift .... a person that I disagree with almost all of the time .... is right when she says .... What the military has to confront is criminality, not a hookup culture.
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