Quote Originally Posted by nunbeater View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Why is the Army going woke?

They don't have much choice.

Previously they were getting most of their recruits by appealing to the hyper-masculine, aggressive dudes who loved the idea of fighting, being tough, and shooting guns.

Today it is hammered into boys that such behaviors are indicative of "toxic masculinity", so there aren't enough of these type of guys anymore to recruit for the Army. In order to fill the ranks, now they need to make it look like the Army is a sensitive place which supports woke thinking, so they can draw in some of that crowd, in order to replace the previous type of recruits which exist in much smaller numbers now.

This is one of the many unfortunate results of the attempt to suppress natural tendencies of boys and girls, for the supposed sake of "equality".

Another unfortunate result of all this is the fact that today's young males have a much reduced desire for sex and dating, compared to previous modern generations. Boys are inundated with so many scary messages about "sexual harassment" to the point where many have been conditioned to stay away from real women, and to get their satisfaction via easily accessible porn.

Sometimes "progress" is actually regression.
lol motherfuckers that never joined the military talking about how things are in the military, holy shit you people are fucking clueless. The Army is the army and its gonna keep doing what it does and training young men and women to fight for our freedoms/oil. Regardless, while the military is a microcosm of society and we see general norms and mores get adapted, there is still gonna be the macho types joining en masse. They are always going to outnumber "woke" women (lol I dont even know wtf you mean here but I'll play along) by a healthy margin.

USMC had problems like this in the 90's, they tried recruiting the all American football star clean cut church going motherfuckers but quickly realized that if they want a badass fighting force that was capable they would have to widen the range because they simply weren't getting enough Johnny Cleancut to fill the ranks.
You're basically saying what I'm saying.

The army can't get enough tough dudes to join anymore, because a lot of these guys (or their parents) have been brainwashed to suppress so-called "toxic masculinity". So as you said, the Army must "widen the range", and appeal to people who otherwise would have dismissed a potential career there.

The problem is that the quality of troops goes down when you start recruiting people who really aren't Army material. When they're trying to appeal to prissy, 110-pound SJW chicks to join up, you know they're scraping the bottom of the recruitment barrel.

I don't even blame them. If they can't get enough recruits, they gotta do what they gotta do.

It's just very sad that woke society has overcorrected perceived injustices, to the point where natural tendencies along gender lines are suppressed and shamed, and to where people have been brainwashed into believing that they must be transgender or nonbinary if they happen to have a few nontraditional characteristics.

The last decade has really been a disaster in this regard. We're living in a weird society where defining people by race is the norm again, where young men would rather jerk off than "risk" asking a real woman out, and where claiming you have gender dysphoria is a status symbol.

What a clusterfuck.