Current Events > "You will address me by my husband's rank!" miltary wives annoy me

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Phynaster posted...

A PhD is a PhD. And anyone who refuses to address a teacher with one properly is a dick

Anyone who demands this even somewhat seriously is a cliche

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Meh who cares what she wants to be called?

Anyone who says "I refuse to call this lady Lt Copper because she's only a WIFE!" who then turns around and yells at conservatives for not calling transgender men and women their new names is a massive hypocrite

Just call people the name that makes them happy. Why do you gotta be a jerk? It isn't hurting you.

Theres a difference. Rank in the military is earned. You aren't going to address someone who's never served with a military rank just because they have a spouse in the military.

You address a transgendered person by their preferred pronoun because that's how they identify as.

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Hexenherz posted...

As fucked up as this is... its probably only a 7/10 compared to the worse storys I've heard.

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berlyman101 posted...

Anyone who demands this even somewhat seriously is a cliche

Its a matter of respect. A Dr is a Dr. Literally no reason to be a douche

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isn't that disrespectful to people actually in the military

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Phynaster posted...

Its a matter of respect. A Dr is a Dr. Literally no reason to be a douche

Person 1- This man is dying! Is there a doctor in the house?

Person 2- I am a doctor!

Person 1- Oh wonderful help them!

Person 2- I am a doctor of music, but I am a doctor.

Person 1- . . . . Ok, now there are two people dying!


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I dont argue with people about what they wish to be referred by, Im not an asshole like that.

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Mistere Man posted...

Person 1- This man is dying! Is there a doctor in the house?

Person 2- I am a doctor!

Person 1- Oh wonderful help them!

Person 2- I am a doctor of music, but I am a doctor.

Person 1- . . . . Ok, now there are two people dying!

Hilarious. Were talking about students in this professors class addressing them, as you can clearly see if you practice some basic reading comprehension

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tbh its hard for me to respect anyone whos joined the military in like the last 15 years

like I get the post 9/11 thing but after the whole reason for that was revealed to be bullshit, seems like the main reason anyone would join the military would be to kill people in the Middle East. Theres no honor in that

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BignutzisBack posted...

Yep

Head over to r/justdependathings to get your fill lol

Holy shit, thanks for this lmao
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TheGoldenEel posted...

tbh its hard for me to respect anyone whos joined the military in like the last 15 years

like I get the post 9/11 thing but after the whole reason for that was revealed to be bullshit, seems like the main reason anyone would join the military would be to kill people in the Middle East. Theres no honor in that

Benefits?

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TheGoldenEel posted...

tbh its hard for me to respect anyone whos joined the military in like the last 15 years

like I get the post 9/11 thing but after the whole reason for that was revealed to be bullshit, seems like the main reason anyone would join the military would be to kill people in the Middle East. Theres no honor in that

That kind of person exists, for sure, but there's still a whole class of people designed to be preyed upon by military recruitment. Not sure what the numbers are on that though.

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TheGoldenEel posted...

tbh its hard for me to respect anyone whos joined the military in like the last 15 years

like I get the post 9/11 thing but after the whole reason for that was revealed to be bullshit, seems like the main reason anyone would join the military would be to kill people in the Middle East. Theres no honor in that

I've never killed anyone or been deployed anywhere and my job has nothing to do with the Middle East ...

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Im a military brat and i never heard that.

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Bass_X0 posted...

thankfully though I have never met one.

Wait... so what's the point in your anger then if this hasn't happened to you?

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its just a big public works program dressed up in a way red state senators can vote for

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TheGoldenEel posted...

tbh its hard for me to respect anyone whos joined the military in like the last 15 years

like I get the post 9/11 thing but after the whole reason for that was revealed to be bullshit, seems like the main reason anyone would join the military would be to kill people in the Middle East. Theres no honor in that

Its not like every job in the military necessarily involves gunning people down. You could serve in the military and never see direct combat.

There are a lot of technical, medical, cryptological, administrative, etc positions in the military.

If you think everyone who enlists is just dying to shoot up brown people, you have a warped perception of servicemembers.

Jiggy101011 posted...

Wait... so what's the point in your anger then if this hasn't happened to you?

I read about them and listen to stories about them. I can have empathy towards someone Ive never met or directly interacted with.

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Enlistment should be random and universal or voluntary and without any secrecy or euphemism that your job is hired killing. There's a lot of military in my family and it's weird to me that we're supposed to worship these people as gods while ignoring, downplaying and euphemizing the (purported) wholly-just smiting they are employed to do, for the purpose our worship. If what they're doing is good, why can't we call their job what it is?

If the only reason you join the military is for the benefits, you obviously aren't taking the oath very seriously (nor should you, since it's a desperation move in a shit career). The whole thing is a ponzi scheme meant to scoop up the desperate or sociopathic.

If you aren't doing hired killing, but rather data gathering, you'd be better served not being deployed alongside a bunch of tanks and flashy racists. If you aren't doing hired killing but rather just supplying the hired killers with the stuff of life, you should have gotten a job in the hotel industry or catering.

If you're a spouse, you are worth nothing to me, because you chose to join up with a hired killer/for-fun sociopath and that's the row you chose to hoe. I don't fall over myself praising oil rig workers' spouses or the spouses of triage nurses working swing shift (though perhaps ought).

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Conflict posted...

Some people I know that enlisted in the military work in friggin' culinary lmao.

There's a rate for that. Culinary Specialist. I know a guy on the USS Nimitz who is a CS. Actually took is job seriously and got good enough at cooking that he was cooking for the CO. Or so he says.

VanananaHeyHey posted...

Enlistment should be random and universal or voluntary and without any secrecy or euphemism that your job is hired killing. There's a lot of military in my family and it's weird to me that we're supposed to worship these people as gods while ignoring, downplaying and euphemizing the (purported) wholly-just smiting they are employed to do, for the purpose our worship. If what they're doing is good, why can't we call their job what it is?

If the only reason you join the military is for the benefits, you obviously aren't taking the oath very seriously (nor should you, since it's a desperation move in a shit career). The whole thing is a ponzi scheme meant to scoop up the desperate or sociopathic.

If you aren't doing hired killing, but rather data gathering, you'd be better served not being deployed alongside a bunch of tanks and flashy racists. If you aren't doing hired killing but rather just supplying the hired killers with the stuff of life, you should have gotten a job in the hotel industry or catering.

If you're a spouse, you are worth nothing to me, because you chose to join up with a hired killer/for-fun sociopath and that's the row you chose to hoe. I don't fall over myself praising oil rig workers' spouses or the spouses of triage nurses working swing shift (though perhaps ought).

/cringe

VanananaHeyHey posted...

Enlistment should be random and universal or voluntary and without any secrecy or euphemism that your job is hired killing. There's a lot of military in my family and it's weird to me that we're supposed to worship these people as gods while ignoring, downplaying and euphemizing the (purported) wholly-just smiting they are employed to do, for the purpose our worship. If what they're doing is good, why can't we call their job what it is?

If the only reason you join the military is for the benefits, you obviously aren't taking the oath very seriously (nor should you, since it's a desperation move in a shit career). The whole thing is a ponzi scheme meant to scoop up the desperate or sociopathic.

If you aren't doing hired killing, but rather data gathering, you'd be better served not being deployed alongside a bunch of tanks and flashy racists. If you aren't doing hired killing but rather just supplying the hired killers with the stuff of life, you should have gotten a job in the hotel industry or catering.

If you're a spouse, you are worth nothing to me, because you chose to join up with a hired killer/for-fun sociopath and that's the row you chose to hoe. I don't fall over myself praising oil rig workers' spouses or the spouses of triage nurses working swing shift (though perhaps ought).

So far off the mark yikes.

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What's the military's job?

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Esrac posted...

Its not like every job in the military necessarily involves gunning people down. You could serve in the military and never see direct combat.

There are a lot of technical, medical, cryptological, administrative, etc positions in the military.

If you think everyone who enlists is just dying to shoot up brown people, you have a warped perception of servicemembers.

I mean, arent all of those positions just in support of the militarys main purpose of killing or intimidating people in other countries?

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"Killing and intimidating people" isn't the stated objective of any military unit or the DoD as a whole... And the DoD does *a lot* around the world that has nothing to do with killing or intimidating people.

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Shoulda passed the Nobility Amendment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titles_of_Nobility_Amendment

Phynaster posted...

Hilarious. Were talking about students in this professors class addressing them, as you can clearly see if you practice some basic reading comprehension

I know I was just making a joke on your dr. Is a dr. line I meant no disrespect to you or those with a doctorate I was just having a bit of fun.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPquarz16wQ

Hexenherz posted...

"Killing and intimidating people" isn't the stated objective of any military unit or the DoD as a whole... And the DoD does *a lot* around the world that has nothing to do with killing or intimidating people.

I agree that (to rebuke Mike Huckabee) the military's job ought not be "kill people and break things," but that is definitely what its goal has been for more than most of our lifetimes. The noble projects of intel gathering, bridge building (i.e. Army Corps of Engineers) and extant-road-bomb disarmament would each be better served by a non-militarized gang of people whose only qualifier to join was "good at fitness" and "few other job prospects."

I'm actually not opposed to the death penalty or a violent military; I just simply want us to acknowledge the gravity and import of what we ask our military to do rather than pretend that anyone in possession of fatigues and a pension is just a different flavor of Mr. Rogers + Jesus.

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VanananaHeyHey posted...

Enlistment should be random and universal or voluntary and without any secrecy or euphemism that your job is hired killing. There's a lot of military in my family and it's weird to me that we're supposed to worship these people as gods while ignoring, downplaying and euphemizing the (purported) wholly-just smiting they are employed to do, for the purpose our worship. If what they're doing is good, why can't we call their job what it is?

If the only reason you join the military is for the benefits, you obviously aren't taking the oath very seriously (nor should you, since it's a desperation move in a shit career). The whole thing is a ponzi scheme meant to scoop up the desperate or sociopathic.

If you aren't doing hired killing, but rather data gathering, you'd be better served not being deployed alongside a bunch of tanks and flashy racists. If you aren't doing hired killing but rather just supplying the hired killers with the stuff of life, you should have gotten a job in the hotel industry or catering.

If you're a spouse, you are worth nothing to me, because you chose to join up with a hired killer/for-fun sociopath and that's the row you chose to hoe. I don't fall over myself praising oil rig workers' spouses or the spouses of triage nurses working swing shift (though perhaps ought).

based. military worship is cringe

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g980 posted...

Id never heard that was a thing

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Mistere Man posted...

Sure how does Major Bitch sound?

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ThyCorndog posted...

based. military worship is cringe

Military worship is awkward but you can... you know, not participate *while* also not spewing baseless teenage angst BS because you don't understand anything besides "military = guns and tanks".

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Dependa's... *shudders*

Also, pretty sure "sexually deprived" over there is lying.

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VanananaHeyHey posted...

What's the military's job?

To be worshipped.

Im just going off what you posted, so it might not be accurate.

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military worship is cringe

"all military is bad and murdering scumbags" isn't any better

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thronedfire2 posted...

isn't that disrespectful to people actually in the military

Was colonel Sanders disrespectful?
Sgt Fish?
Major Nelson?

You people are acting like this grants them money or special privileges

One minute spent whining about it is more time and every spent in your life then all the time you will ever call people by what makes them happy combined.

It's such a weird hill to die on and be mad about. just call the chick a Lt and get on with your life

I knew a guy who liked being called Big Cheese

he wasn't big or made of cheese but I called him Big Cheese, I didnt make an issue out of it

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Colonel Sanders was a Colonel. Just not a military Colonel. Apparently it's an honorary title some states bestowed upon people, and he was awarded that title.

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She wants to feel important while she cheats on her husband

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Hexenherz posted...

Colonel Sanders was a Colonel. Just not a military Colonel. Apparently it's an honorary title some states bestowed upon people, and he was awarded that title.

I noticed you dodged the others

Maybe the wife's title was honorary and her husband bestowed

maybe calling her it is showing respect to him?

Point is why does it matter

Either you effortlessly make people happy

or actively go out of your way to intentionally make people miserable with considerable effort for no reason

I don't get that mindset

Why be a jerk?

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That's because I've never heard of the others and I'm too lazy to look them up.

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I just looked up Major Nelson, literally named after a character on a TV show. No one cares about that lol, guy's not trying to pretend to be someone in the military and it's a gamertag on a gaming service.

Don't know who sgt fish is.

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TheGoldenEel posted...

tbh its hard for me to respect anyone whos joined the military in like the last 15 years

like I get the post 9/11 thing but after the whole reason for that was revealed to be bullshit, seems like the main reason anyone would join the military would be to kill people in the Middle East. Theres no honor in that

This is like owning an iPhone and looking down on others for buying products manufactured at Foxconn. You're still reaping the rewards of the US' meddling in the Middle East as the US is there to maintain the sovereignty and economic dominance of the US dollar (as well as maintain their end of the bargain with Saudi Arabia in the case of the Yemeni crisis).
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Hexenherz posted...

I just looked up Major Nelson, literally named after a character on a TV show. No one cares about that lol, guy's not trying to pretend to be someone in the military and it's a gamertag on a gaming service.

Don't know who sgt fish is.

These chicks aren't pretending to be in the military either

they are openly saying their husbands are

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UnfairRepresent posted...

These chicks aren't pretending to be in the military either

they are openly saying their husbands are

There are plenty (not all, of course) of military spouses who believe they are automatically entitled to something by virtue of being married to someone else. That's what we're railing against. And yes, there are literally people out there who present themselves as having earned a military rank equivalent to their spouse's just because they are married to that spouse - it's not *as* common as the general sense of entitlement, but it does happen.

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