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People have a reasonable expectation that their spouse would be able to find employment, or, you know, that they might be able to find a spouse. Moving the entire CAF into a series of shitty rural communities where there's nothing going on isn't going to help our retention crisis, but neither...

All they need to do is get rid of the socks.

Those folks weren't engaging in less workplace sexual harassment; they just weren't getting in trouble for it.

Hardly seems silly, considering that we get shit like this happening on basically a constant basis otherwise.

Yuuppppp The type of people who would be inclined to listed to / take advice from Andrew Tate are also the exact type of people who we, as an institution, don't really want. Misogyny is the dude's bread and butter, and it has no place in the CAF. If the folks who are inclined to be...

Isn't the dress of the day generally dictated by the Commanding Officer in their standing orders? Whether or not you wear NCDs or DEUs really shouldn't be your choice like 95% of the time.

Let me put it this way. When someone makes a comment on a general phenomenon, and an individual reacts as if that general comment is a personal attack... that's usually about as close to an admission of guilt as you ever get. Jesus dude, do you really need to be so obviously broadcasting the...

I did. Wasn't the only one. Highest rank I've seen who went in on the coloured hair was a Cdr and an LCol for what it's worth. Edit: make that 2 LCols and a Cdr now.

And this is why I like the new dress instructions, as it largely bypasses the issue (a rather minor issue all things considered of course) of people adopting religions on order to wear their hair the way they want by simply allowing everything that any religious accommodation might be granted...

Hardly like we can go around tossing out some religious beliefs because they're "all mostly made up" without realistically tossing them all out. New belief systems are not more or less valid than ancient ones.

Reg Force the entire time. I wonder if the VAN Wardroom still has their collection of powdered wigs (to better emulate Captain Vancouver of course)

Having opinions that aren't shared by most people here is hardly the same thing as trolling. If you disagree with me, that's fine. I'm Reg Force Navy, no particular desire to share any more than that; I hardly see how it reasonably affects what I'm saying anyways.

That is absolutely a distinction without a difference. Adding weasel words to your insults doesn't in any way negate the impact it has on those being insulted.

I really don't get why there's such resistance to the notion of changing the way the military does things in light of changing societal norms. The the way you've been doing things forever isn't working as well because of a mis-match between how the people you're recruiting expect to be treated...

I have in the past seen people on this forum threatening to contact people's CO's when they disagreed with opinions stated, so yeah, I think I'll pass on divulging too much info. Simply put, ya'll can't be trusted. Surely you can distinguish between yelling at someone versus yelling to be heard.

Yes, I get that inducing stress to see how people react is needed. What isn't needed is being a dick about it all the time. When the example that you set from the get-go is that the primary method used to "lead" people is by yelling and otherwise forming an toxic workplace environment, you're...

When we start them out in an environment which defaults to yelling any time there is a "screw up" (and let's face it, quite a lot of the time said screw up is merely a failure to meet a purposefully set unattainable goal), that sets the standard from the get go for what is considered good...

"Inclusion" does not solely refer to race, religion, gender, etc. There are a wide variety of people who would feel unwelcome for reasons u related to those under the old regulations, who will now instead not need to change anything about themselves to fit in. Thus the new regulations are...

Might I kindly suggest we fix both? Changing the dress instructions will have literally no impact on the state of our equipment, etc. But it will help out quite a bit at making folks who don't fit the current mold as well as you do in feeling a part of the team. I call BS on that. Quite a bit...

It's less about the specifics of pink or purple or whatever. What it is primarily about is crafting an institution which is inherently as welcoming to people from all walks of life as possible. Removing any and all barriers that would make people think to themselves "maybe people like me aren't...