NJDadofDSUSMA2024Hopeful
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@txfwindian that’s certainly what I would have thought, but very curious what @LurkingQuietly DS meant.
@txfwindian that’s certainly what I would have thought, but very curious what @LurkingQuietly DS meant.
when your son says there are bad kids at the academies, did he mean, “like there are everywhere in society”? Or disproportionately more at the academies?
It is a different world today than when he and I were splitting a couple of pitchers of beers with buddies or chasing girls. I was no choirboy nor were most of my running mates. The term “binge drinking” wasn’t even invented, because no one binge drank. We were mindful of a girl’s reputation, and our own. Now there is tinder where...well I won’t go there.
Binge drinking absolutely has existed since the turn of time. Just because the term didn’t exist didn’t mean it didn’t happen
Incidents been happening since 2018, why the late action against the mid?
Have you listened to some of the music or read the lyrics? I cancelled my Peloton subscription after a black female trainer used some music that was absolutely degrading, misogynistic, and racist. I was dumbfounded that she not only listened to such music but thought it was ok for a workout with others.I feel like sexual assault is gettign normilized recently. I read about a few cases where rappers were annonced not guilty, which frustrates me.
Iirc recently happened to a 1C striper getting drunk and climbing into a plebe’s bed.Yes, this has been brewing quietly over the last year. Sadly, there is nowhere on the application to check a box that someone does this. It seems the govt has a good case with creditable witness/victim statements. I am so sorry for those this happened to. I am glad they spoke up, were listened to, and action taken.
Over the years, our sponsor mids have reported drunk mids coming back to the Hall and going to their old rooms in confusion, even to the point of climbing back into their old beds. Mids usually solve these in their own ways. One of our mids related an upperclass had done this three Saturday nights in a row. The roommates escorted him into the shower in their room, fully clothed, and turned on the cold water. They then went and got his roommates to rescue him.
This, though, is full-on sexual assault. The man is a predator and a criminal, though I suppose I should wait for the court-martial results and presume innocence.
The victims have no doubt been getting counseling and support. I hope they have decided to fight through this and stay on. From something that happened to me in college, I still startle badly if someone comes up behind me and mentally I had no awareness of anyone there.
You would think a Service Academy would be immune to this, but like college campuses everywhere, there are bad apples who sailed through the Admissions process.
When you listen to the current music and compare the cancellation of Baby It’s Cold Outside, you shake your head in disbelief.Have you listened to some of the music or read the lyrics? I cancelled my Peloton subscription after a black female trainer used some music that was absolutely degrading, misogynistic, and racist. I was dumbfounded that she not only listened to such music but thought it was ok for a workout with others.
Do you want to delete my quote if it and A1Janitor’s quote of mine that references it?The post that brought this thread back up from 2019 has been deleted due to an embedded spam link. Sorry for the confusion.
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Do you want to delete my quote if it and A1Janitor’s quote of mine that references it?