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RandySF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:30 PM
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Group Opposed To DADT Repeal To Fight On Against Shower Policy
Showers are "huge issue," Donnelly said. "To pretend that throwing up a few shower curtains solves the problem is tantamount, again, to saying, well women should share close quarters with men, we'll throw up a few shower curtains and that will take care of it."

"I don't know about the gyms where you go or most people go, but the gyms that I've seen have a sign inside the door, and the door says inside the women's locker room 'no boys of any age are allowed.' Now there's a reason for that," Donnelley said. "It in no way is a negative reflection on anybody, it is just a sign of respect for modesty in sexual manners."

"Knowingly, you don't expose yourself to somebody who might be sexually attracted to you. Does it happen unknowingly? Sure," Donnelly said. "It's something that again, when you introduce an element of sexuality in an environment that previously did not have that, that is problematic. There will be consequences from that, because people are normal, they're humans, they're sensitive to that."


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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:32 PM
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1. they are making fools of themselves
most women probably won't give the time of day to these hateful bastards yet they're convinced all gay men are hot for them- WTF - it's proof that that homophobes simply don't see gay people as human beings but simply sexual beings
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:33 PM
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2. LOL. If these people can't handle public showers
why do we expect them to handle the enemy?


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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:35 PM
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4. what kills me is
they're admitting they couldn't handle even the PERCEIVED thought of sexual harassment - something women LIVE with
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:43 PM
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8. Isn't that the truth.
lol
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 08:57 PM
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13. makes you wonder how the "fighting men" consisting of these homophobes
would be able to handle an army attacking them ... naked ...
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 10:23 PM
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15. LOL. To be fair to our troops, though, the survey says
they don't have a problem. It's these idiot talking heads that use the troops as a paper tiger.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:35 PM
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3. Sad and pathetic
That would be like people still fighting for overt, de jure racial segregation in 1972.

THEY LOST. Get over it.
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:37 PM
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5. She has quite an active imagination.
She's semi-hot too. I would like to show her my trombone.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:42 PM
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6. We have a lot of really really strange people in the US that think they are the
image of god's perfection. This has to rank as far beyond stupid. We need protection from these weirdos, not gays in military showers.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:42 PM
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7. So, all of a sudden the gays are coming out of the woodwork?
Edited on Mon Dec-27-10 06:49 PM by KansDem
I showered with guys in junior and senior high school, after sports-team workouts (football, track, cross country, baseball) junior-college handball class, at the YMCA pool, at school-district camp (in fact, we were told to shower two to a stall because of time constraints).

I don't know but I'm sure I showered with gays, or guys just discovering their gay sexuality.

The only "uncomfortable situation" I encountered (we all encountered) was some fuck who try to urinate on you when you walked into the showers in junior high. He wasn't gay--just an asshole; you had to steer clear of him...

But now with the repeal of DADT, I've got to be careful?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 06:47 PM
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9. this gal apparently has no clue that gay folk have always served in the military
they've simply been denied the right to do it with complete truth and honor
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DeadEyeDyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 10:40 PM
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17. and I have been pissed on all my life
What else is new?
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howaboutme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 07:09 PM
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10. DADT is about dividing
I could really care less about it. I've served and the DADT issue is totally irrelevant to me. Kind of like worrying about the sunset being more golden than purple. Politicians use it to serve themselves but that is their only mission. Dividing America is what the USA political community thrives on.
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 07:13 PM
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11. Can someone tell me what makes this women an expert on any military
subject? As far as I can see, she set up some foundation years back to preach about gays in the military and to solicit money from homophobes
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 07:46 PM
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12. I could never be in the military
I've never even showered with my HUSBAND. I wouldn't want to shower with another woman, whether she was straight, gay, or a martian from otta space.

I like my PRIVACY too much. Call me a prude.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 08:59 PM
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14. isn't this amusing ... this attitude about "guys hitting on" those whom they're attracted to ...
where were these guys during the "Tailhook" scandal?

Oh, yeah ... screaming that people were making such a big deal over nothing ...
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DeadEyeDyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 10:38 PM
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16. It's all about scheduling
Mondays - Heteros shower (Don't Ask-Don't Touch)
Tuesday - Gays shower (no peeking from the Monday crowd
Wednesday - BiSexuals shower (but no hoo-hoo)
Thurdays - Trannies Shower (You figure it out)
Friday - Free For All
Saturday - Someone has to clean the shower
Sunday - God showers

You in the Army now!! Ten Hut!

:sarcasm:
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