Reply #137: If you can find the right way to bring it up [View All]

please do.

I wasn't always the best feminist when I was in - I accepted a level of religious harassment, sexual harassment, and racism that I'm not proud of - against myself and others. I've written about it before - when I was the only woman in my unit for awhile, when we were traveling around together, it was expected that I'd be fine going with the guys to some pretty demeaning things, wet teeshirt contests and such, standing awkwardly while they all were ... the way guys are in that situation. The alternative was being the shithead who ruined everyone else's fun by insisting we go back for the night. When our DI crawled up in the ceiling to harass us recruits while we were showering, and we didn't know was he watching us or not but he claimed he was, none of us reported him.

When I found out the guys were tracking me with their thermal cameras, I didn't report that either.

I did get promoted quickly.