Women’s Liberation? No, Oppression.
Last week SLDN released new data showing that women in the Air Force and Army make up a disproportionately large percentage of discharges under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). While women make up approximately fifteen percent of the armed forces, they account for nearly half of all discharges from those two branches. Why are women being singled out so disproportionately? Only the Pentagon can say. But what seems fairly obvious is that DADT is being used in an arbitrary fashion to target women in the military.
SLDN Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis considers why a tool as arbitrary as DADT even exists. While our allies in Canada and Britain allow their military commanders to judge who is fit for service, why does the U.S. Congress feel the need to take this decision out of the hands of our military leaders? Why hasn’t Congress repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
Click here to visit Huffington Post and learn more about why we need, now more than ever, to repeal this law and why Sarvis is saying, “Women’s Liberation? No, Oppression.”
-Victor Maldonado
Labels: Huffington Post, women
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