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I refuse to pay my own money to subsidize the Crown's failures. If the system is gonna give me stuff that doesn't fit well, then so be it. Fix the system, don't expect the member to pay themselves to solve the CAF's problems.

Hah, the base tailor shops can barely handle rank changes, expecting them to be able to get everyone actually wearing properly fitted clothing is a pipe dream.

I mean, yes, but you achieve that by having media sources with low levels of bias, not by having extremely biased sources on "both sides" of any issue. The Sun does not contribute towards a balanced media ecology. They're doing their damnedest to actively unbalance it..

No, it is not reasonable to react in that manner to what someone is. As opposed to the topic of discussion here, where people are reacting to the messages that people are displaying. When someone is actively trying to communicate something, figuring out what they're trying to say and reacting...

I'm definitely interested to see what happens with the mess dress rules. I think it's pretty clear that every mess is going to be expected / required to reformulate their dress rules to be gender neutral. But a number of messes really just say something like "shirt / tie or ladies equivalent"...

Maybe a light scolding if it's a one-time thing. If it becomes repeated, I'd say start at an initial counselling and work from there. Harassing people because you don't like the way they look is, of course, unacceptable. Textbook toxic work environment right there. 100% exactly the type of shit...

Well, I think it teaches them that standards are often ignored, or just that people quite frequently don't bother to look up the reference in question. Which frankly probably prepped them reasonably well for service in the CAF, since that shit happens everywhere. .

The default state might be "just how it is", but the fact that you haven't decided to change that default state to something else is indeed based upon your preference. There isn't a shade of natural occurring hair which exists which can't be replicated via the bottle. And currently, there's...

The one I'm most irate about was this one:

I can tolerate a lot of differences of opinion. People would prefer that short hair be mandated for men? Fine by me. People love military parades? Groovy. People think purple hair is unprofessional? That's just, like, your opinion man. People think it's perfectly reasonable to call...

Agree to disagree then I guess, I refuse to refrain from calling out bigotry for what it is. 2 wrongs don't make a right, but I strongly believe I'm in the right here.

Credibility? How about "don't pass a fault"? Aren't we professionally obligated to be calling out unacceptable behaviour? Bigotry has no place in the CAF, and I'll be damned if I'm going to refrain from using the word just because it makes bigots and their pals feel bad about themselves when...

When said opinion was "trans people should be afforded the same rights and opportunities as everyone else", yes, it is. There is no friendly difference of opinions when it comes to whether or not certain people deserve basic human rights.

There is no such thing as "in our private capacities" when it comes to hateful conduct.

That'd be the Paradox of tolerance at work, now wouldn't it? When someone's literally saying that we shouldn't bother recruiting trans people, because they come with too much baggage.... well, that is a clearly transphobic viewpoint, that should not be tolerated. Because the one thing...

It was intended primarily as an equity initiative. If it helps a little bit with retention or recruitment, that'd be great, but that was not the primary purpose.

And yet somehow women have managed for decades, I'm sure the dudes will figure it out too.

Now I'm convinced you're being deliberately obtuse. Tell me, if the rules were changed to mandate and neon green reverse-mohawks, would you be perfectly happy about adhering to that change? Be honest now. If doing that would irk you, then you're just as guilty as anyone else of desiring your...

Everyone has a preference. Everyone has some style of hair cut they like the best (which can of course change at times). The standards went from "shave it bald, everything goes" to "15 cm of length and up to 4 cm inches of bulk". And a lot of people's "ideal" preferred hair cut fell well within...

Again, wearing your hair the way you want it isn't the same thing as "attention seeking behaviour". Honestly, I think your problem is that you're making this all about you. You're viewing everything through the lens of how you'll react to someone's hair. People aren't trying to get a rise out...