Surprise: The Pentagon hates the current Netflix hit series about a young, queer Marine recruit set in 1988

[AZJonnie]

The Pentagon Released a Statement on Netflix's Gay Military Series Boots. Yes, the Pentagon

The show is based on the memoir of real-life marine veteran Greg Cope White.

Today in thoroughly unsurprising but still pathetic news: The Trump administration took aim at Netflix’s queer military show Boots, calling it “woke garbage.”

Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson slammed the hit coming-of-age series in an October 16 statement to Entertainment Weekly.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to restoring the warrior ethos,” Wilson’s statement reads. “Our standards across the board are elite, uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn’t care if you’re a man, a woman, gay, or straight.”

It’s not the worst opening one could imagine, especially given that Boots was inspired by real-life gay veteran Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine, which details his time serving in the Marines when being gay in the military was still illegal.

However, Wilson then added that Pentagon officials “will not compromise our standards to satisfy an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership consistently produces and feeds woke garbage to their audience and children.”

https://www.them.us/story/netflix-gay-boots-show-pentagon-hegseth-statement

We just finished it last night. It's really quite an excellent show, and I'm happy to see it's doing so well. So guess what, Pentagon? It's going to do even better now!

[Ocelot II]

1. I wasn't going to watch it because I usually don't care much for military stuff, but now I will.

[AZJonnie]

7. Well fair warning, it is VERY MUCH "military stuff", it's almost all set in Marines boot camp

There's a LOT of dick-wagging (figuratively) and aggressive, authoritarian bullshit going on.

But there's also TONS of cute bare butts and hot bods, if one likes that sort of thing

It's still very worth watching, and despite the protestations of the current fascist regime, the volume and content of LGBTQ-related "messaging" strikes just the right balance, IMHO, for a mainstream show such as this. One could imagine from the description of the show it might strike a cloying/preachy tone or be too on-the-nose, but it really does not. It's extremely deft in that regard, getting the message through without hitting the viewer over the head with it.

I recommend it

[Walleye]

2. The word woke isn't getting traction for them Must realize they've completely worn it out they just haven't thought of

Anything else to replace the word. Maybe gay, female minority? no they aren’t gonna be honest.

[Aviation Pro]

3. Gays and transgenders can't be warriors?

Explain Navy SEAL Christopher now Kristin Beck, you fucking failed, tabless, beyotch infantry officer.

And your “chin ups” sucked, zero.

[Blues Heron]

4. They really latched on to the word woke, like it's bad to be aware. They want their people asleep, or drugged

[lapfog_1]

5. better not tell keg's breath about this...

"gay soldiers fought in ancient Greece, most famously as the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite unit of 300 men composed of 150 gay couples in the 4th century BCE. This military strategy was based on the belief that lovers would fight more fiercely to protect their partners and avoid shame, a concept influenced by philosophical ideas like those of Plato. The Sacred Band was a highly successful force, instrumental in Thebes' military dominance."

[yankee87]

6. LGBTQ Parent here

Started watching and had to take breaks because I was crying. What happened with the gay DI turning his lover, a major, in to the authorities, then helping cope at the end is sad. If we fail, this will come back.

[AZJonnie]

9. I can imagine!

It's very powerful without being overtly preachy. I love it when shows pull off that vibe, and Boots definitely qualifies.

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. Never heard of it,

Now I gotta watch it

They never seem to learn that all that whining just gives a lot of publicity to things they don't like

[doc03]

10. I binge watched it last week. I thought it was

very good

[neverforget]

11. I watched it this week and thought it was very good. It also shows that we've come a long ways

but we're in danger of losing the progress.