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‘What Would You Do If a Gay or Lesbian Were In Your Shower?’ and Other Pentagon Survey Questions

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‘What Would You Do If a Gay or Lesbian Were In Your Shower?’ and Other Pentagon Survey Questions

"If Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed and you are assigned to bathroom facilities with an open bay shower that someone you believe to be a gay or lesbian Service member also used, which are you most likely to do? Mark 1."

So asks the Pentagon survey of 400,000 non-deployed active troops regarding the pending repeal of the “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell” ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military.

The choices: [...]

Actual survey is attached. I guess it must be impossible for Merkins to comprehend exactly how ludicrous this looks to the rest of us in the actual free world. The country's puritan roots are so deeply symbiotically embedded in the host that it would probably be impossible to remove without killing it. This entrenched puritanism is far scarier and more damaging than the theism that has spawned around it.

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Permalink Reply by funk Q on July 9, 2010 at 9:47pm

I'm surprised "lock and load" isn't an option. Maybe it's too ambiguous...

Permalink Reply by hunter on July 9, 2010 at 10:05pm

personally I wouldn't care about a gay man being in my shower as long as I wasn't in it, but I would be wandering how anyone got into my shower in the first place, and be worried that simply that anyone was in my shower. lol

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on July 9, 2010 at 10:13pm

These are group showers, man. An entire barracks will use a bank of showers that are just one big room. It's more or less the same as health club showers.

That aside ... do we get to choose? I wouldn't mind having a lesbian in my shower. She might feel a little uncomfortable, though.

Permalink Reply by Luke on July 9, 2010 at 11:33pm

I would do the same thing as with a straight person. Have a damn shower. Do these idiots think that all gay and lesbian people are uncontrollably attracted to them?

Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on July 10, 2010 at 12:09am

Do these idiots think that all gay and lesbian people are uncontrollably attracted to them?

Of course they do. They also worry about stealth blowjobs while they're asleep. Remember, you're not American. Their normal is your batshit insane.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on July 10, 2010 at 12:26am

Ah, yeah. Luke, if you haven't spent a lot of time in rural America, you wouldn't believe how unbelievably homophobic some of these people are.

I don't know as much about Australian culture, but people from Europe just have no idea. Our fundamentalist, religious nutjobs just have this completely different reality.

Even if you watch American TV shows and movies that have people like that, as a non-American, you can just tell yourself that it's a wacky parody, and there aren't really people like that. No matter how insane the caricature, there really are lots of people like that, in America.

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on July 10, 2010 at 8:08am

It's not just rural USA.

Permalink Reply by Creature on September 1, 2010 at 6:27pm

I'm glad I live in my nice Seattle bubble.

Permalink Reply by Fabio on July 10, 2010 at 8:19am

Oh, that so makes me want to move to the US :D

Permalink Reply by Alex Catgirl on July 10, 2010 at 9:15am

They are, every time I go home and tell the stories of how incredibly stupid the Average American is, as in "Simpson" or "King of the Hill" STOOPID, most people refuse to believe it. They honestly believe, as they have been told, that the majority of Americans are like Europeans, they are not.

Permalink Reply by Brian on July 10, 2010 at 10:49am

Kindly go fuck yourself.

Permalink Reply by The Secular One on July 10, 2010 at 1:13pm

Eh, the anti-American big brush gets old after a while. Our non-American friends need to remember we aren't all crazy and are actually pretty damn vocal about the crazy shit.