Dunwoody becomes first female four-star general
"The recognition makes her a little bit uncomfortable from the standpoint of the gender aspect — that we're making a big deal (that) she is the first female general officer," Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said Thursday in announcing that Defense Secretary Robert Gates would attend her promotion ceremony."
This language baffles me - 'makes her a little bit uncomfortable from the stanpoint of the gender aspect...' Even Whitman is having difficulty discussing the fact that she's a woman and that that makes her appointment newsworthy; the Pentagon doesn't talk about women on the staff that often.
"I grew up in a family that didn't know what glass ceilings were," she said. "This nomination only reaffirms what I have known to be true about the military throughout my career — that the doors continue to open for men and women in uniform."
Another example of the person who succeeds pretending that systematic forms of discrimination just don't exist. I guess being the daugther of a former four-star does help her wish things like discrimination away. And just look at her rough features.
That woman couldn't ask to look more like .
Marshall Murdock.
Quoth Rambo: "Colonel, you're the only one I trust ..."
[Queue the chopper and arm sweat.]
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