{"id":130960,"date":"2016-06-29T18:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T00:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/the-manly-men-of-the-marines-feel-unmanned.html"},"modified":"2016-06-29T18:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T00:47:06","slug":"the-manly-men-of-the-marines-feel-unmanned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/the-manly-men-of-the-marines-feel-unmanned.html","title":{"rendered":"The Manly Men of the Marines Feel Unmanned!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently some US Marines (present and past) have their khakis in a wad by the &quot;pussification&quot; of their branch of the service by Political Correctness Gone Mad, as the Marine Corps (which now technically allows both men and women to serve in all roles) pursues more gender-neutral language for job descriptions &#8212; mostly by substituting the word &quot;Marine&quot; for where &quot;Man&quot; was previously used.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I haven&#39;t noticed that Policemen and Firemen became any less heroic or brave or respected upon becoming Police Officers and Fire Fighters. But maybe they&#39;re less into titles and similar fripperies than these Marines are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2016\/06\/28\/the-marines-just-took-man-out-of-19-job-titles-and-people-are-losing-their-minds\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/x-2RJuNVRmlCA2ufGNYNyRc0kQx2yvES8Q9SaJfzGSt-VremtHdJvRmph0S2THH0ZJqu_5AEWR_ST26x9RMU1S4U1VQ2fi448MJiNXcnX8aVqlz4cJKNaMeEttEIZsFwex8Zzvko7EvQq0MVG9M8H51neSwjBqm70eLyNT7BX2u-CYw3OCR8DrEQzyrOU3Fw1iQtv_MxA-isXwHvFY0ZbhFzbTpLTfHmiEx-ZzHTyhMDM4_f-J-mlUjoch5G5rrwigCqbCY92L1fY-P8ug=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2016\/06\/28\/the-marines-just-took-man-out-of-19-job-titles-and-people-are-losing-their-minds\/'>The Marines just took &lsquo;man&rsquo; out of 19 job titles, and 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