No one here is discussing males and females sleeping and showering together except you. Move on.
I'm using it as an example of the military's standard on billetting to illustrate my point. Since DADT hasn't been abolished, yet, it's the only barometer to work with. It won't be until the DoD addresses openly serving gays in the military that there will be another mark to gauge with.
I thought we were talking about sexual harassment. Now why in the world would a straight man sexually harass another man?
Are you saying it can't happen? If a soldier says to a gay soldier, "did you take it in the ass this weekend?", then that's sexual harrassment.
The same way I would feel if a male soldier was predatorial with any other soldier.
And, it is a soldier's right to request protection when he/she feels that her safety is being threatened by another soldier, especially if the threat of arm is sexual.
My first reaction isn't discharge and neither is the military's. Disciplinary proceedings are my first reaction, followed by stripping of rank, and finally discharge if the behavior is not corrected.
Um, no, not when it comes to sexual violations. The first step is courts martial, then discharge.
First you are assuming that sexual harassment will be rampant or more rampant than it currently is. Second, you are assuming that measures will be more drastic following DADT. There is nothing to indicate this. Not one shred of empirical evidence.
1 in 3 female soldiers experience sexual harrassment in the military, as sexual harrassment is defined by the DoD. It only stands to reason that sexual harrassment is going to increase if you throw gay on straight and straight on gay harrassment cases into the mix. It's totally unavoidable for the sexual offense rate to remain the same and sure won't go down. Right now, there are minimal cases because of DADT. Hell, the sexual offense rate will go up because of spite cases, alone, not to mention the cases where sexual offense
actually takes place.
So now we're right back a t a "don't drop the soap" prison rape scenario? What makes you think that this is going to become some issue? Are you afraid the homos are going to start forcibly dipping their sticks in your honey pots spontaneously at the repealing of DADT?
It's human nature. If it wasn't, then sexual harrassment wouldn't even exist in our culture. The reality is, though, it does and the other reality is, sexual harrassment isn't confined to male on female misconduct. The scenarios will infinitesimal. To say that it isn't going to happen, is just plain denial.
