Why do people make gay jokes about the navy
Iwasappalled when I read excerpts from Vibe's interview with rapper T.I.: he said that the gay collective is too sensitive to jokes made at their expense. T.I. starts with a disclaimer, saying that he's OK with any sexual "preference," but goes on to say, "If you're against [being gay], you should also own the right to be against it in peace." Most obnoxious was when T.I. condoned Tracy Morgan's venomous diatribe against gays, which took place earlier this year.
His idea is that anti-gay sentiments are acceptable, and that it's ridiculous for the lgbtq+ community to backlash against this expression of free speech. It's true that the First Amendment protects all kinds of free speech, including anti-gay speech. But the fact that anti-gay speech is legal does not make it any more acceptable. Free speech can allow free ignorance, unfortunately, and the two often go hand-in-hand.
It's clear from his language that T.I. simply does not relate to gays. If we conclude that gays are overly sensitive to these jokes, then clearly the African-American collective is overly sensitive about racism. Imagine the backlash if a public figure made a joke about killing a person because they were
Pete Hegseth decried out male lover troops in US military as part of Marxist agenda
Policies allowing gay people to serve in the US military have been denounced as part of a “Marxist” agenda aimed at prioritising social justice above combat-readiness by Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled defence secretary pick.
The claim was among many contentious “anti-woke” views expressed in Hegseth’s latest book, The War on Warriors, published this year, in which he lambasted a previous policy – known as don’t ask, don’t explain (DADT) – that tolerated gay service members as long as they did not disclose their sexual orientation, while also excoriating its repeal.
DADT was introduced as a compromise during Bill Clinton’s presidency in 1993 to allow lesbians and gay men to serve in the military in the face of opposition from senior commanders. The policy overturned a previous blanket ban that had been in place since the second earth war.
It was repealed in 2011 during the presidency of Barack Obama monitoring numerous complaints of discrimination resulting from the dishonourable discharges of armed service personnel after their sexuality had come to light.
Hegseth – whose nomination has bec
AskUs: What is the origin of the “gay sailor” stereotype?
So one of our readers asked us this question the other day: Out of the 4 branches of the military, why does Navy get portrayed as “Gay” in movies and just in general as a joke?
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It pre-dates the Together States and was present in the English Royal Navy as well. The actually reason is very simple. Sailors were sometimes, and more often reputed, to be prison gay. That is they were removed from an environment with large numbers of women for months, sometimes years, at a second and turned to alternative sexual practices. A captain or officer might acquire a wife aboard a ship but everyone else was pretty much on their own (you can find these women by looking at the quartermasters records and seeing who was drawing double rations).
Sodomy if found out was generally punishable with flogging or death.
I don’t know too many books/articles on this topic exclusively but it is touched on in a number of books on the larger topic of sailors lives. Rediker touches on it in Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Joe Flatman definitely addresses it in Cultural biographies, cognitive landscapes and messy old
OF VICES AND REARS or Why I’ve Stopped Reading Jane Austen
I’m sick of rereading Jane Austen. Oh, I realize, she’s a superb writer. I don’t dispute that reality. I’m a fan. I’ve read all her novels many times. I carry on to follow the literature about her—including Helena Kelly’s recent attempt to twist her into a twenty-first century, right-thinking feminist. It’s not that I don’t admire her lively characters, and the acuity of her observations, and the way her continual irony bristles with intelligence.
It’s her muddy joke.
There’s only one in the entire canon. It’s a pun, and it’s still elegant and funny, two hundred years on. It occurs in Mansfield Park, her longest and most complex novel, the subject of which, she herself says in a letter to her sister, is “vocation,” and whose heroine is wholly passive, her only freedom the dearly-bought power to speak “no.” It’s delivered at a dinner party given by Sir Thomas Bertram, owner of the estate that gives the book its title. The speaker is Mary Crawford, beautiful, accomplished, urbane—and dangerous:
Of various admirals, I could relate you a wonderful deal; of them and their flags, and the gradation of their spend, and their bickerings and
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An vintage First Sargeant is fully frisky so he rushes home to his wife. He tells her, "honey...my soldier is standing at attention and needs some help!". She replies "I don't see a soldier..just a disabled veteran with two lumpy duffle bags!!" "and he surely does need help!". LOL
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0 What has an IQ of 150? The entire 5th Marines without their Corpsmen!!!
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1 What do you call a Marine who can read,write,walk & converse at the same time? Colonel!!!
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1 What do you call a Marine that can read & write? Sir!!!
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1 A Marine Sgt. and his girl confidant a Marine BAM. Was riding down the route on a cold winter night and ran over a mother skunk, which had 3 babys. The bam said "stop and pick up the babys,it's very cold out there." "OK," said the Sgt. "you can put them between your legs to keep them warm,