Marine Photo Scandal; Truth Is Rarely PC

This issue with Marines United isn't simply a "boys will be boys" or that they're "young, dumb, and full of cum" so it's just normal and natural that the marines did this. It isn't. There are literally millions of photos of nude women on the internet. There are dozens of porn sites where a "horny male" could view sex acts of every imaginable type with any type of woman he desires.

But marine united isn't about horny marines looking at nudes. It's about specifically targetting fellow marines in order to attempt to humiliate and denigrate them against their will. And it's not just by posting photos. They also post their names, unit of assignment and sometimes home addresses, along with comments about how they would like to rape them, etc. This isn't a normal guy doing guy things, and it hasnt always been that way.

This article tries to make this despicable act the moral equivalent of WWII soldiers ogling pinup girls. Hardly. And I have never accepted the "it takes rough guys to fight wars" excuse for things like pissing on dead bodies, or cutting off and collecting ears of dead enemy,. Things like that are signs of a unit that has lost its discipline, and it is dangerous. It's the same eroding away of discipline that leads to American soldiers lining up dozens of women and children in front of a ditch and machine gunning them to death in My Lai VN. And it goes against the very fabric that makes up the values we fight for.

So let's not pretend that this is just red blooded healthy American men doing what is natural and normal. It is far darker and more hateful than that.

No surprise that Marines, especially those in the field, would be sharing nude photos of women. But it used to be women that chose to model for such pictures. Putting WMs on display is uncalled for and inexcusable. A blot on all of us.

Thank God! The first balanced piece of media I’ve seen on this topic of crude photographs, dare I say pornography. If a person isn’t in uniform or on duty… who cares? If it crosses the line into the criminal area, then that’s a different situation.

People need to understand: once “you” send a picture of yourself out there in cyber space, it’s going to get shared if you like it or not. Reminds me of my mother explaining to me not to say anything to anybody that I wouldn’t say to their face.