quote:Originally posted by Dogbreath: it seems several posters have trouble believing that there are far right anti-vax types. (Gaal had trouble even imagining it apparently)
Check again. I was referring to far right hippies, not anti-vaxxers. I know personally a conservative anti-vaxxer.
quote:Originally posted by GaalDornick: I'm bumping this thread because this clip is worth watching: http://youtu.be/LUyjT8VpwMI
I remember when that happened. It was 2 months after DADT was officially no longer policy (sometime in September, I actually made a post here about it if you want to find the day) and a lot of gay military members were hesitate to come out of the closet (officially. Everyone who knew them personally already knew) out of fear that their careers might retroactively be ended by a Republican victory in 2012.
As it turns out, DADT ending has had no observable deleterious effect on the military *at all*, and has actually had some positive side effects. One of which is UVAs (Universal Victim Advocates) opening up to victims of male-on-male sexual assault, which has historically been a huge and dramatically under-reported problem due to (not unreasonable) fear on the part of the victims that revealing the circumstances of their rape might get them kicked out of the military. Now the sexual assault training they do every year includes several scenarios of male-on-male rape along with messages of "just because you were assaulted by a man doesn't make you gay" and "it's ok to come forward" and stuff like that, which is absolutely amazing that things like that even need to be said, but it's a step forward.
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