Discussion: Not Everyone Is Happy About The Marines Making 19 Titles Gender-Neutral

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“many of the more iconic titles, including “rifleman” and “mortarman,” were left unchanged”

OFFS, people. Pick one.

Leave them all because of tradition or change them all to be more inclusive.

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Don’t worry. ‘Cannon-fodder’ will remain ‘cannon fodder.’

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Sgt. Geoff Heath: “But on the other, it’s a direct reflection on society’s crybaby political correctness.”

Well, someone is certainly being a crybaby about it, Sarge.

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Yes, but now “Cannon Fodderman” will become “Cannon FodderMarine”.

Inclusion!

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“Commandress-in-Chief”

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As usual, the crock of PC shit spills downhill.

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“But on the other, it’s a direct reflection on society’s crybaby political correctness.”

Insistence on proper labels pisses me off, too. There's this guy in the produce department at the grocery that calls avacados "avacados". Geez.
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Newsflash: Marines don’t mind being called Marines. At least that has been my experience working on base for the last 4 years,

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“Cowomander-in-Chief”

jw1

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“But on the other, it’s a direct reflection on society’s crybaby political correctness.”

No, it is a reflection on your crybaby political incorrectness ya fuckin’ pantywaste.

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Change them all to be accurate.

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“On one hand, the name changes from ‘man’ to ‘person’ or whatever they want to call it doesn’t really matter. They could call mortarmen bakers for all I care,”

So replacing ‘man’ everywhere with ‘woman’ wouldn’t matter either, right?
I say, go for it!

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Far as I knew, they’ve been calling them Recon Marines for decades.

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Les hommes du plus haut calibre.

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Sgt. Geoff Heath told the Post. “But on the other, it’s a direct reflection on society’s crybaby political correctness.”

Says the guy being a crybaby about having to treat female marines as equal.

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Could be worse. If Trump is elected these titles might reflect gender unambiguously so that we’d have mortarman and “mortarmaid” and antitankmissleman and “antitankmisslemaid” for example.

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antitankmisslematron please,

In the field we must know the marital status of female Marines.

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Mrs Von Holst still works a bit; I’m retired; but I don’t consider myself a houswife. I prefer “Senior Layabout Analyst.”

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(Former Marine and Daily Show correspondent) Rob Riggle had a line, “The Marines are actually a department of the Navy. The Men’s department.”

:smiley:

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