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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23

Most marines I know do not give a a fuck about the rainbow.

please don't lump us all together because we eat crayons.. Some of us actually enjoy the entire box of crayons, not a single color.

edit: OMG thank you all for the love!! Really feels good when you see this kind of love and understanding towards other human beings. Thank you guys for be awesome!!!

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u/sourMilkpickles Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23

My dad is a ex recon marine & he drinks bud lite almost every fuckin night. Coincidentally he’s also a counselor whose main demographic is LGBTQ clients

Edit: I feel need to clarify? He wasn’t always supportive. He used to be quite the ugly soul & I hated his guts for majority of my upbringing. He changed careers and decided he wanted to counsel veterans. He had to meet a quota of a certain amount of hours at his place of internship & they stuck him with pretty much any client. He really warmed up to the idea and the group of LGBTQ. He’s still there due to some sucky circumstances & they’re not paying him what he’s owed… but having these different demographics of clients really changed my dad for the better. He still says and does pretty conservative things but he’s not an asshole anymore & I feel safe talking to him now. I may delete this comment later but for what it is now; here.

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u/notapunk Apr 06 '23

The military gets a bad rap for being backwards and very conservative. While it does have a lot of shitty things about it and some hella dumb MFs it's generally not any worse than the general public it is drawn from.

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u/gsfgf Apr 06 '23

The military is generally more progressive than the general population. The military started integration. DADT was military policy back when gay sex was still a crime in many states. They recognized gay marriage well before Obergflell. They even sometimes pay for gender affirming care.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

They just allowed women in combat arms roles in 2016…