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The end of the airman´s
pin-up: U.S. Air Force
orders pictures of naked
women to be taken down
after sexual assaults soar

Daily Mail (UK), by Helen Pow

Original Article

Posted By:JoniTx, 12/7/2012 10:17:38 AM

Pictures and calendars featuring half-naked women will be stripped from U.S. Air Force work spaces and public areas under a widespread inspection to stamp out sexual assault in the armed forces. Commanders and supervisors in all active, reserve and Air National Guard units have 10 days to complete the sweep for pin-up images or materials reminiscent of the all-male military from 20 or 30 years ago. Air Force chief General Mark Welsh said having a culture where such objectification of women is tolerated may be contributing to reports of sexual assault increasing to more than 700 this year

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: oh-heck, 12/7/2012 10:20:25 AM     (No. 9053471)

Will the objectification of males still be allowed? New military you know.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Calico Al, 12/7/2012 10:29:31 AM     (No. 9053498)

It´s art. Museums are full of half or full naked women.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: hotrod, 12/7/2012 10:53:14 AM     (No. 9053554)

Generations of military men have had pin-ups. They are nothing new that would cause sexual assaults to ´´soar.´´ Political correctness always blame the wrong causes, for the wrong reasons! I´m all for women doing jobs traditionally done by men, as long as the standards are not lowered and no special accommodations, beyond restrooms and such, are made.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Liberal like Jefferson, 12/7/2012 10:55:32 AM     (No. 9053559)

Next,we´ll need to go pile all those Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli paintings in pyre and burn them all.

I was at the National Gallery of Art in DC last month and saw all kinds of half-naked and fully nude women. I didn´t feel compelled to sexually assault the docent.

We´re starting to look more land more like the Taliban every day.

Read the history of graham crackers for a related laugh.


Reply 5 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter, 12/7/2012 11:20:25 AM     (No. 9053611)

I´m surprised the Air Force isn´t already on board with the program. The Navy lowered the boom on this sort of stuff years ago. But guess what? It isn´t the pictures, posters, or magazines causing the assaults, it´s merely the presence of more women. As the Kid from Brooklyn would say: "Think about it!"


Reply 6 - Posted by: TheGrandWahzoo, 12/7/2012 11:20:58 AM     (No. 9053613)

I´m innocent. Can´t you see that pin-up I saw made me assualt that woman.


Reply 7 - Posted by: HicksvilleKid59, 12/7/2012 11:22:55 AM     (No. 9053616)

In 1959 I was in the Air Force. I was told that my picture of Connie Francis, inside my footlocker, in a tight fitting gown was to ´racy´.

I don´t remember any sexual assaults.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: tnorling, 12/7/2012 11:32:03 AM     (No. 9053630)

I´m glad they did a thorough study of the correlation between pin-ups and the soaring number of sexual assaults. Oh, wait...


Reply 9 - Posted by: dwa, 12/7/2012 11:32:05 AM     (No. 9053631)

With all our military services are faced with today, we can see where Welsh´s priorities are


Reply 10 - Posted by: enemyofthestate, 12/7/2012 11:45:51 AM     (No. 9053674)

This is supposed "to "stamp out sexual assault in the armed forces"? Riiiggghhhhhhtttt.

The work of controlling do-gooder busybodies who don´t know what they´re talking about.


Reply 11 - Posted by: richwill, 12/7/2012 11:54:07 AM     (No. 9053694)

The US would not have won WW II without pics of Betty Grable and Jane Russel.


Reply 12 - Posted by: abiner, 12/7/2012 12:18:38 PM     (No. 9053739)

Where DO they get these generals? In case Gen. Welsh doesn´t know it, men have been drooling over nude women since the day Eve first appeared --- (Adam: "Hey, not bad...")

And listen, General Boobie, its not the pictures which lead to assaults. If it were, assaults would have begun skyrocketing in 1953 when Playboy was first published. But I can think of a couple of (politically incorrect)reasons why why they´re rising now.

How about insisting there´s no difference between men and women, paying no attention to the hormones raging at that age, then declaring that "separate but equal facilities" violates some tenet of equality. Everybody lives together, sleeps together, eats together, and cohabits together.

Just what did they think would happen?


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: LadyHen, 12/7/2012 12:41:30 PM     (No. 9053775)

As a woman, I find this decision ridiculous and even offensive. So what they are saying is abuse if predicated by what a woman looks like, wears, how she appears, etc. ?? Looking at a good looking woman makes you want to beat her up or rape her?? Huh?? I thought we have been told time and time again, rape and abuse has nothing to do with sex or what a woman wears or doesn´t? Which is it?

Real men like to look at the female body in all states of dress and undress. This is not new but it is fantastic!! And as for the crap about looking at pin-ups (some of which, especially some of the ones form the WWII era, are as lovely as many works of "art" in museums) cause violence, that makes no sense at all.

A man appreciating the form of a woman who has obviously taken care of herself, shows off her God given beauties to her best advantage, and looks like prime baby making material, that´s called biology. Biology keeps the world turning and it´s pretty damn fun too.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Marzon, 12/7/2012 12:49:58 PM     (No. 9053794)

Have the number of muslims in the air force gone up? That would explain the increase int the assaults.


Reply 15 - Posted by: pdmccas, 12/7/2012 1:03:42 PM     (No. 9053832)

#13, my kind of woman. Glad I was a fighter pilot when I was. Fortunately the new Chief can rely on drones to be sexless.


Reply 16 - Posted by: JoniTx, 12/7/2012 1:07:56 PM     (No. 9053845)

Bravo #13!! Beautifully said.


Reply 17 - Posted by: chumley, 12/7/2012 1:15:02 PM     (No. 9053858)

Idiot policies like this have been going on in the AF for many years. They were mostly done locally by commanders who wanted to be able to say they were doing something about sexual harassment.
One knucklehead PACAF general even made it a punishable offense to use language that might offend anyone, any time. Even in private. He put out a list of taboo words and then sent all his first sergeants around to all the barracks listening at doors. This was in 1992.
All we could do was laugh it off. That or cry for what was once a great service.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: doctorfixit, 12/8/2012 8:48:18 AM     (No. 9055009)

The politicizing of the military proceeds apace. You´re not getting that star if you don´t cooperate. A picture of a naked woman is not pornography. It has been proven that erotic images do not provoke sexual assault. That being said, I don´t think a military facility should have any personal items on display. Keep your girlfriend´s picture in your wallet or in your locker. It´s not a dorm room, it´s a barracks.



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