Friday, December 23, 2022

US Marine Corps Considering Dropping ‘Yes Sir’ And 'Yes Ma'am' For Gender Equity

Will it be the end of "sir" and "ma'am"? (Lance Cpl. Dakota Dodd/Marine Corps)  

Marine Times: Why the Marine Corps may nix gender identifiers for drill instructors 

A new academic report on efforts to integrate Marine Corps boot camp recommends dropping gender-specific salutations for drill instructors, but service leaders are not convinced they want to take that step. 

The lengthy report, commissioned by the Corps from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020 and completed in 2022, points out that half of the military services already have done away with gendered identifiers for training staff. 

“The Army, Navy, and Coast Guard effectively de-emphasize gender in an integrated environment,” the report states. “Instead of saying ‘ma’am’ or ‘sir,’ recruits in these Services refer to their drill instructors using their ranks or roles followed by their last names. Gendered identifiers prime recruits to think about or visually search for a drill instructor’s gender first, before their rank or role.”  

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WNU Editor: This is not your grandfather's military. 

US Marine Corps Considering Dropping ‘Yes Sir’ And 'Yes Ma'am' For Gender Equity  

Marines told to stop using ‘sir,’ ‘ma’am’ to avoid ‘misgendering’ superiors -- NYPost  

Marine Corps may drop ‘ma’am’ and ‘sir’ over gender-neutral concerns for drill instructors -- American Military News  

Marine Corps may drop ‘yes sir’ for gender equity -- RT

19 comments:

Dave Goldstein said...

another sign of bad things to come.

Anonymous said...

Agreed!! We're fucked

Anonymous said...

The cancer is spreading, from the top down. China's having a good laugh at our expense.

Anonymous said...

And the military is trying to boost enlistments? Good luck with that.

Anonymous said...

"This is not your grandfather's military."

More like my baby girl's military.

Anonymous said...

Progressive liberalism. like a cancer.

destroys the youth
Destroys the family
Destroys the military


BASICALLY, Destroys everything it touches. It is the fate of the West. And what governments and culture is supporting the Ukraine.

And what values does the current government of the Ukraine push??.... Progressive liberalism.

Anonymous said...

Somebody must be quarterbacking all this. Too many different elements marching to the same cadence to be a coincidence. No wonder they wanted Perot and Trump out by any means necessary.

Anonymous said...

Right! In grandfather's day, the services were segregated

Anonymous said...

the utopia as proposed by academics

Anonymous said...

“In a US newspaper article last week,” writes Janet Daley, “an apologist for the new metropolitan consensus described the acceptable world view as ‘internationalist, secular, cosmopolitan, multicultural liberalism’. This seems to make it explicitly opposed to national pride, religious faith, cultural identity, communal cohesion and any form of social conservatism.”[1]

Anonymous said...

^ lousy post

Anonymous said...

^ 9:09. The truth hurts. This is what they think. This is why they hate you.

This is why they support the Ukrainian government of Zelinski. Because they both believe and think alike.

Anonymous said...

Quoted from thesobornost.org

Sobornost

Sobornost is a Russian term whose usage is primarily attributed to the 19th-century Slavophile Russian writers Ivan Kireyevsky and Aleksey Khomyakov. The term expresses the need for co-operation between people at the expense of individualism, on the basis that opposing groups focus on what is common between them.

Just because there is a near and a far enemy does not mean I side with the far enemy against the near enemy

I watched the documentary "When Siberia Will Be Chinese". People like Putin want Vladivostok and environs to remain Russian. To that end he offered up 1 free acre to anyone, who wants to live there. Very generous of him. Forty acres and a mule would have been better or maybe 200 to 2,0000 acres if they wanted to farm.

Offering 1 acre makes Putin seem like a greedy skinflint. He has that huge mansion in Sochi and he is only offering up 1 acre in Siberia. That is greed, indifference, obtuseness or something on Putin's part. Putin cares about the Russian people?

There are problems with offering more land than an acre. People could not have the means to develop said acre and they get bought about by someone with money, who becomes another oligarch.

Still Putin's offer seems like a poorly though out half measure.

Anonymous said...

There's also a lot of young men deciding whether to join or not..

Anonymous said...

11:36

Post 11:36 made the connection to post 7:59.

Anonymous said...

Forget grandfather’s military, this is not the military of 8 years ago

Anonymous said...

Only thing that has not changed for Marines is their formal uniforms.

Anonymous said...

most if not all things change over time.
Once only males could be in our military. Once Blacks were in the military but segregated. Once no V.A. Hospitals. Once, no airplanes etc etc

Anonymous said...

WE won wars. We prayed. Bell labs and american industry were recognized as the best in the world.
You could go downtown and not get harassed or mugged.
Boy scouts were not infiltrated by weirdos. Military still got 50% retirement. San Francisco was a decent place to take your kids on vacation.
Want more. There is plenty

We did not have cancel