{"id":4365,"date":"2008-06-12T18:08:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2008-06-12T18:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T01:08:41","slug":"the-feminization-of-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/the-feminization-of-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feminization of the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it is getting harder to meet recruiting goals, the Marines are looking for a few good women&#8211;literally. The Marine Corps is marketing itself to women in magazines like <em>Shape<\/em> and <em>Self and Fitness<\/em>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/21\/business\/media\/21adcol.html\">latest ad campaign<\/a> shows a female marine in front of some men,\u00c2\u00a0captioned with: &#8220;There are no female marines. Only marines.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Military Academy now has\u00c2\u00a0gender-neutral lyrics in West Point&#8217;s <em>Alma Mater<\/em> and <em>The Corps<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/recordonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080605\/NEWS\/806050313\">For example<\/a>, the line\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;The men of the Corps long dead&#8221; has been replaced with &#8220;The ranks of the Corps long dead.&#8221; Said Superintendent Lt. Gen. Franklin &#8220;Buster&#8221; Hagenbeck, singing &#8220;Guide us, thy sons, aright&#8221; at the funerals of two dead female soldiers\u00c2\u00a0was &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221; Preserving the words for the sake of tradition &#8220;disrespects the West Point women who serve,&#8221; said the Superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>These are disturbing trends. As\u00c2\u00a0more women\u00c2\u00a0join the military, more\u00c2\u00a0women will die for a lie while in the military. It is bad enough that young men continue to join the military, but it is tragic that families are raising their girls to be soldiers. Yes, these young women are joining of their own free will, but it is tragic nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it is getting harder to meet recruiting goals, the Marines are looking for a few good women&#8211;literally. The Marine Corps is marketing itself to women in magazines like Shape and Self and Fitness. The latest ad campaign shows a female marine in front of some men,\u00c2\u00a0captioned with: &#8220;There are no female marines. Only marines.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}