The Daily Newds
- PETA is staging a striptease version of the State of the Union Address. As if the Emperor was not already naked enough.
- "Naked Boys Singing" has reached the 2500 show milestone.
- Heidi Klum and Seal have naked family portraits on their walls.
- Rick in Dayton, Ohio, seems to think that Air Force staff sergeant Michelle Manhart got what was coming to her for posing nude in Playboy.
They (The Air Force) have a perceived public image to protect and they have to maintain order and discipline among the ranks...I am a bit surprised that with 12 years in, she would not have considered the possible consequences.
Of course she considered the consequences, The question here is if she really did something "immoral" by having nude pictures taken for a magazine that is readily available at military PXs. It's obvious that she is deliberately bucking the system in order to make a statement about her personal rights as a woman. - Toronto does not currently protect a mother's right to breastfeed in public, and officials are considering a policy to allow breastfeeding "anytime, anywhere".
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3 comments:
I wasn't saying that she did anything immoral or that she had it coming to her. I was just trying to give some idea of how "the system" looks at what she did. The military works much differently than the civilian world. I don't have an opinion one way or the other about her posing. She's not the first woman in the military to pose for Playboy and the brass reacted the same way. The reality is that her career in the Air Force is essentially finished. That's just the way the system works.
Rick, you said, "They have a perceived public image to protect and they have to maintain order and discipline among the ranks. The troops are supposed to respect those leading them and the Air Force believes the young airmen in her charge won't respect her because she posed nude in Playboy. In the minds of the Air Force brass, these airmen (as well as her superiors) will be thinking she's unfit to command them because she's an immoral slut who posed nude for a magazine. Nor do they want some distressed mother writing to her Congressman and complaining that her young, impressionable, virgin son is being commanded by an "immoral whore." Unfortunately, the Pentagon's perception of reality is the reality everyone below them must abide by." spin it any way you like, but it sure sounds like you share the military's mindset on this issue.
Maybe I could have written it a little more clealy. I don't share the Air Force's (or the military's in general) point of view but I understand where they're coming from. Personally, I see nothing wrong with her posing nude. I was just trying to illustrate how the military, as an institution, thinks and what the likely outcome will be. Like it or not, when you're in the military, they own you 24/7 and you do, to some degree, give up some freedoms that everyone else takes for granted. I think she may have been a bit naive to believe the Air Force wouldn't react the way they have.
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