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Pete Hegseth removes all women and some Black service members from navy promotion list
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You did not need to explain it to me. My problem is with pointlessly gendering things. Replacing experienced people with unexperienced people is always going to be a problem regardless of what gender those people are. So starting the comment by saying this is why hot meals can’t be served just makes it sound like the commentor is being sexist.
Hot meals are a part of logistics. They were saying due to sexism in the military, women had been relegated to those roles for years, and now you have a field dominated by women. Pete, not promoting those women with all the experience results in men with less experience in that role being in charge of logistics work.
The pointless gendering is coming from Hegseth and what the army had already been doing prior. They are explaining why Hegseths new policy is leading to poorer performance in those areas because of the pointless gendering. It doesn't matter what gender the people coming in are, it matters why the people were there before and are being removed, which was due to the previous pointless gendering.
I disagree, because this person specifically started with pointing out hot meals before talking about Logistics. Literally, they could have left the first sentence off and it would have sounded way less sexist.
Someone took the time to explain that removing people who have experience in logistics and cooking (typically women) will result in lower quality of those services. Then they explain Pete is the one pointlessly gendering things. And all you say is "nuh-uh I still think I'm right and everyone else is wrong" and then also say you refuse to change your opinion lol.
YOU are the only one looking at this as some reverse sexism thing for misinterpreting the original idea that removing people who are experienced will result in lower quality, and refusing to acknowledge the possiblity that you may have misinterpreted the message.
Did you really just explain it to me again??? So you just didn’t even read my posts then?
For the record saying something sounds like something else isn’t misinterpreting anything it’s a fucking opinion. Please keep that in mind, you are getting butt hurt over some random Internet person‘s opinion… And if I was the only one looking at it that way I wouldn’t be the only person down voting them or up voting me. Just because an opinion is in the minority doesn’t make it invalid, and just because an opinion is in the majority doesn’t make it valid.
It didn't seem like you were understanding the original idea. And idk you're the one swearing and using aggressive language so it really seems like you're just butt hurt you got called out. And again you get defensive lol. Well, it doesn't matter what you say or do I still think you're wrong and I'm right and if you're upset just remember it's only an opinion :D
I think the fact that literally everyone else here read it as it was intended to be read and is trying to explain it to you might suggest that you probably did indeed misinterpret something. No one else thought this person was implying women belong in the kitchen... you are bringing something personal into this.
Literally? If that were true then I would be the only person up voting me or down voting them.
Of course I am, it’s my personal opinion, and I’ve already said I don’t like things being pointlessly gendered which is also an opinion. But saying that no one else thought that is just being obtuse.
I'm not sure repeating "well it's my opinion" is helping.
Flat earthers, anti-vax, and moon landing deniers also have opinions... but they're wrong... there's like 3 other people commenting the same stuff trying to explain it, all being pretty civil too. I haven't seen any comments (maybe one popped up while I was writing this) backing up your opinion which is why they are saying nobody else really thought that but you.