By: millbot

Trotta’s comments are especially hypocritical (in addition to being, y’know, monstrous) since she won her fancy journalism awards for reporting from the Vietnam combat zone. Was she too emotional / “raped enough” while doing that job, I wonder?

Thanks for this post, Rachel – you hit all of the counterpoints I’ve been rage-stroke-screaming to myself since all of this news broke.

P.S. Women have been serving in combat roles for the U.S. since the Revolutionary War. Thousands of them dressed as men and fought for both the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. Talk about performing one’s duties under hardship: Not only did they have to deal with the usual horrors of war, but they had to do it all while also keeping up a serious level of subterfuge. Respect.