Camp followers

Just like the army has always had camp followers, now they have blond lieutenants
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[@epronovost6539]

I sure love the idea that the a man who claim to have combat experience in counter-insurgency say the word "non combat unit" as if it meant anything about the possibility of facing actual combat. The entire point of insurgent is that they don't fight combat units as much as possible and strike support units as much as possible.

[@GroupBehaviorGal]

Exactly! It’s also ironic because I would then go on to be one of the first women put onto deliberate ground combat missions, on that deployment

[@epronovost6539]

@@GroupBehaviorGal While I'am at it, as an historian, I can tell you that a military wife referring to women in the army as "camp follower" as a synonimous to prostitutes has an extra flavour of vile. Actual camp followers were military wives (widows or daughters) and received army wages for important logistical work mostly military laundry and sanitation work within military encampments. The idea that camp followers were prostitutes is largely a myth perpetrated mostly by military wives who were not allowed to work in the military since the places were limited. Nothing better than shitting on people past and present at the same time.

[@destroyraiden]

these males like to comfort themselves that women will not be fighting so they 1. don't have to do anything to protect them they can turn off that male feature and 2 they can pat themselves on the backs that women will not outsihine them while in battle and they can maybe earn a medal.
In both WWs and the Civil War many women fought and in many wars before those when you dig hard enough you begin to uncover you have at least 1 - 4 women on aboard that is findable meaning you have far more then that it's the worst game of where is waldo out there!
However in the Civil War it's a bit unique some commanders knew they had women in their forces so would keep keen tabs on their doings in battle and noticed what the women themselves in their own war stories affirmed they did as well or better then the males. One commander said of his one known female member "If I could have 20 of her I'd take her over these men." It was also noted several times by many women that the ones who got caught (and their faces shown & themselves mocked to all hell in the papers of the time as a war determent strategy of the military on both sides) they noticed how if the woman wasn't male presenting enough in all aspects if she didn't look, sound, behave as a male then the males would be upset and thats' what got her "caught" due to the other women some aged 45 or over blatantly not doing any work to hide their amble breasts were both known women and yet accepted as males due to they'd talk, pad to hell their uniforms to seem flatter if not more of a blue or grey marshmallow or they'd just wear one large ass shirt which didn't deny much at all and they were treated as one of the males yet all slender women had to put in the effort or else they'd be found and kicked out. If you find scrap books of the war look for the women in the photos! You'll see them!
In Ghettersburg we had 12 women on the board of which 10 fought split even on both sides (1 of those women when through 10 battles including Shiloh before ending up here) of which 4 where heavily injured one southerner lost an arm and was found out in this way and the other 4 were not found they did accounts later. the last two women 1 was a guard guarding a woman found out that morning who said she had another woman in her group so really we may have 11 on the battlefield. Yet you will find no plaque of them no where only in the last 5 years have tour guides began to speak on them with the degrading tag line of "girl power." right along side their huge accomplishments they do not understand that was meant to be a disparaging & mocking phrase to infantilize her and safely de-empower any woman for the male's ego.

[@GroupBehaviorGal]

@@epronovost6539 😞 thanks for sharing this

[@katrina917]

Your experience in the military with the men is remarkably similar to mine in IT. They think and act the EXACT same way. It's suffocating.
It makes u wonder how many men out there are seemingly ok until they find themselves among the bros and completely change (or reveal themselves).

[@GroupBehaviorGal]

I read Emily Chang's Brotopia about women's experience in tech before I wrote Uncultured, and I felt like I was reading my same experience. Anything where they call you a "female" anything, really.

[@Talentedtadpole]

4 sports bras? That's a tit tax 😡

[@GroupBehaviorGal]

Yes