38 Men Raped in U.S. Military Each Day

From what we were told during our last mandatory SHARP brief that we are forced to go all the time, the majority of victims in the Army are actually male.

But the Army suffers from the same political correctness as society in this regard which is why every single SHARP poster plastered all over the place in the hangar is a photo of a woman with a thousand yard stare with some caption saying "This is unacceptable" or something.

Come to think of it I've been doing this job for a lot of years and I don't think I've ever actually seen a SHARP poster featuring a male on it.

We're all supposed to just be "Soldiers" and all equal but we still push the agenda that women are more threatened than men in our so called toxic male dominated Armed Forces...

We're slowly getting sort of better though. At least they finally rescinded that idiotic SHARP law that said something like "If Joe and Jane are both drunk and have sex then Joe goes to jail because drunk Jane can't consent but somehow drunk Joe can consent because men are evil". Now it's just if both are drunk then whoever tells on the other one first wins. Which is just slightly less idiotic than before but at least the PC police finally admit that drunk PEOPLE can't consent instead of only drunk woman can't consent.

I'm so glad that I'm in a unit where our females are more foul mouthed and vulgar and politically uncorrect than the guys are and all laugh at the SHARP program the same way we do. It's so much less stressful of a work environment when the main ones cracking inappropriate vulgar jokes are the women. And when our battalion SHARP rep is a woman who has a vocabulary akin to one of the characters from the HBO series Deadwood lol.

But then again my particular line of work in the military doesn't attract people with sensitive feelings of any gender and you wouldn't survive more than a few days in our career field if you walked around getting "offended". It makes policing up SHARP incidents that much easier because our female's are tough as nails with foul mouths so if they reported a SHARP complaint against you then we KNOW you actually did something terribly wrong. Which has happened before here and that guy refused to even return back to work (which he could do) during his investigation because he knew that showing his face around here after arguably one of the toughest Soldiers in our unit (a female) filed a SHARP complaint against him would be an unwise decision.

He's now at Leavenworth.

 

That right there is the problem with reports like this.

The definitions of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment are so ridiculously broad that it statistics get blown way out of proportion to the uninformed.

I am literally, and I mean literally, sexually harassed on a daily basis at work. I am sexually assaulted at work when a fellow Soldier kicks me in the rear as I'm walking down the hallway. We get the same stupid SHARP brief like every other month. Touch somebody and they tell on you then you're screwed. Make an inappropriate joke and someone with soft skin tells on you then you are screwed. Talk about sex and someone hears you and tells on you then you are screwed.

The military definition of sexual harassment and the commonly accepted definition of sexual harassment are not the same.

Coming up behind a female while shes sitting at her desk to look over her shoulder without her permission is sexual harassment. LITERALLY, we were briefed that...

That is the type of asinine definitions that we deal with under the SHARP program. Good luck getting accurate statistics when if you are in a tent in Iraq and it's 137,000 degrees and you take your shirt off and a female happens to walk by the tent flap and see you then that's a SHARP violation....

Once again, thankfully for us our female Soldiers aren't like that. My best friend here is a female Soldier, when we go to the field she sleeps in the male tent (as a proverbial middle finger to the SHARP program and because she hates living with a bunch of lower enlisted females who are like 15 years younger than her). She always sleeps in the cot next to me. The guys change clothes in there, have their shirts off, talk about guy stuff, etc. And guess what? She doesn't give a damn because shes not a little princess and actually has common sense unlike the people who defined the SHARP program.

The only problem with her being in our "male tent" is the fact that she douses herself with that damn perfume she wears which makes the whole tent smell like that because "You bastards all smell like sweaty ball sacks". Her being in our tent in itself is like 17 counts of sexual harassment, and her throwing her nasty pants at me while I'm laying on my cot and saying "Wanna know what a chick smells like after not bathing for 3 days dude? hahaha" is sexual assault.

And guess what? Nobody gives a damn.....There is actual sexual harassment and assault and then there's the Army's version of SHARP. Those two are not synonymous. But the Army can't scale down the definition of SHARP because then the PC police would blow a head gasket thinking that the military doesn't care about it. They already threw a fit when Mattis put out a memo last year saying that we are no longer required to brief this dumb garbage every week and we need to focus more military tactical oriented training for increased lethality. Right off the bat we had PC police crying about how the Army must not care about women because we only have to get briefed that male troops are the devil once every few months now instead of every damn Friday afternoon.

Rant over lol.

 

And that's what pisses me off honestly. A whole lot of people in society think that the military is one big frat club to where women are just being raped indiscriminately because they read reports like this and don't understand the actual context.

Even the Army itself paints a false narrative by having SHARP posters of women plastered all over the damn place when women aren't even the primary victims of sexual harassment/assault in the military. I won't make this as an absolute statement but as somebody who's been in for years and been to multiple duty stations I have NEVER ONCE seen a SHARP poster depicting a man. They may be out there somewhere but I've never seen one.

Our civilian SHARP rep even openly admits during every single brief that males are the majority of victims, yet her entire lecture is always focused on how screwed your ass is going to be if you so much as look at a female Soldier wrong. We've had an open petition to fire her for years, and a few months ago an official letter was written to the Division Commander and signed by multiple Officers and Warrant Officers asking for her to be removed because her narrative was unprofessional and inappropriate and flat out false. She was suspended for awhile put she popped up again a couple weeks ago and delivered another brief so I guess she's still around. I don't know, I refuse to attend any more SHARP briefs and luckily I have the rank and authority within my formation to not go if I don't want to.

Hell 2 years ago we were all ordered to the auditorium and were forced to listen to a female SHARP victim openly denounce and name call every single male Soldier in the formation because "I was a member of this unit and none of you did anything to prevent me from becoming a victim. Shame on every single one of you". That was the "PG" version of what her speech was. She openly trashed talked all of us males without remorse and was allowed to stand up there for 20 mins and call us an assortment of names. We left that place with not only little remorse for her story and what she went through but with multiple Soldiers even so much as saying they didn't even care about what happened to her after that tirade she went on about us.

I'm sick of the false narrative that the military is some huge rape fest and the men are all rabid dogs who will automatically just rape the first female Soldier they see because they can't help themselves.

Here's a news flash for the uninformed. Male and female Soldiers share the same barracks building in my unit, and even live on the same floor. A guy can walk across the hall and be in a girls room, and there is no regulation that says they can't interact with each other.

Number sexual assault/harassment violations from my unit in the past 2 years.

Zero.

Number of Soldiers who have sex with each other on a daily basis? Roughly a metric **** ton.

Mind blowing ain't it.