...and so it begins...TEH GHEYS are getting all sensitive in the Military

[EL PRESIDENTE]

..ok..the Navy...

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2011189,00.html

In the testosterone-laden world of military aviation, call signs for pilots and other squadron personnel can be really sticky — the more an aviator complains about the moniker his colleagues bestow upon him, the tighter its grip will be.

Over the years, that has led to lots of embarrassing call signs beyond the famous one brandished by Tom Cruise — Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell — in the movie Top Gun. A rookie Navy aviator can end up being called "Torch" if he sports red hair — or if he's too quick to turn on his afterburner. A pilot who struggles to fit into his flight suit can be dubbed "Shamu." But as barriers to the once insular, made-up-of-white-men world have fallen — first to minorities, then women and, maybe soon, openly gay personnel — what's an edgy call sign to one person could be seen as an offensive epithet by another.


"I saw my name at the top of the board, and I saw 'Gay Boy,' '***meister,' 'Romo's Bitch,' 'Redskins,' 'Cowgirl' written underneath. I was stunned and shocked that I was sitting in the ready room with those kinds of words up on the board," Crowston says. "The commanding officer and executive officer" — the unit's top two officers — "were voting members, and they allowed the whole room to vote on my call sign. They went line by line, word by word, and they voted, and the one that got the most votes was 'Romo's Bitch.' "

Crowston, an administrative officer in the squadron and not an aviator, calls his sexual orientation "irrelevant" and wouldn't say whether he is gay. But he did complain, first within his unit and then to the office of the local Navy inspector general (IG), about workplace harassment.

 

[Eastoff]

"Those black people are getting all uppity because we call people N*883r!?!" -you 40 years ago.

 

[maxiep]

This disgusts me. Obviously this fine American has chosen his NFL allegiance correctly, and for that he is punished and called Romo's Bitch.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

"Those black people are getting all uppity because we call people N*883r!?!" -you 40 years ago.

40 years ago?

 

[boatsandstars]

..ok..the Navy...

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2011189,00.html

Later on, the forum will decide on your username and avatar independently of you and you have to keep it for the entirety of your membership to this forum, deal?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Later on, the forum will decide on your username and avatar independently of you and you have to keep it for the entirety of your membership to this forum, deal?

THAT IS NOT THE USUAL PRACTICE.

 

[bluefrog]

THAT IS NOT THE USUAL PRACTICE.

I thought we had to choose our user names based on visions from mushroom induced trips.

 

[boatsandstars]

THAT IS NOT THE USUAL PRACTICE.

Who cares, it's still a great idea.

 

[The Sebastian Express]

Is this like the time you got sensitive for being hassled at the Laker game two years ago?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Is this like the time you got sensitive for being hassled at the Laker game two years ago?

sensitive? I pushed a cholo into a concession stand and told multiple laker fans to suck my dick?

 

[The Sebastian Express]

sensitive? I pushed a cholo into a concession stand and told multiple laker fans to suck my dick?

Sounds pretty sensitive, overreacting perhaps even. I mean, you did go in there wearing Blazer gear and all, you should have known what to expect. I'd say getting hassled would be the .. usual practice for opposing fans going into home arenas.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Sounds pretty sensitive, overreacting perhaps even. I mean, you did go in there wearing Blazer gear and all, you should have known what to expect. I'd say getting hassled would be the .. usual practice for opposing fans going into home arenas.

No. No over-reaction. You talk shit to drunk sportsfans that are pissed off, the usual result is a fight.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

..anyway, this is the kind of thing people were just kind of worried about the gays in the military thing. some people said it won't change a thing...obviously it will change a lot of things. more sensitive and having to be worried about people's feelings!

 

[Minstrel]

..anyway, this is the kind of thing people were just kind of worried about the gays in the military thing. some people said it won't change a thing...obviously it will change a lot of things. more sensitive and having to be worried about people's feelings!

transparent trolling is transparent

 

[barfo]

What does an administrative officer need a call sign for?

barfo

 

[BrianFromWA]

I was wondering that very same thing. But good for the guy for following the "Don't Tell" portion of the rules.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

ITS A BROTHERHOOD

 

[Eastoff]

BTW presidente, you screwed up the use of ghey. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghey

Usurping the traditional term GAY to take the homosexual meaning out and leaving in the lame.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I used THE GHEY which is a phrase on its own. Check .the archives

 

[Eastoff]

I used THE GHEY which is a phrase on its own. Check .the archives

I don't know what you mean by .the archives, but w/e.