Won’t reveal too much about myself to avoid being doxxed but I’m almost at the end of BMT now and I can safely say that most men are really disgusting.
There are predators in my platoon. People that have taken advantage of women (and one of them a man). People, or rather monsters that tell their stories freely and openly while others just laugh or shrug it off like it’s the most normal thing in the world.
And the way they talk about female regulars/ogle female recruits in camp is just so disgusting. I’ve heard them rating women, calling certain female recruits their “favourite girls” and referring to them by the size of their assets and discussing all the disgusting things they want to do to them like its the most normal thing in the world.
I never really was a feminist, but I would say I understand now what women mean when they say they’d choose a bear over a man. These men are monsters, plain and simple. The ones that have committed actual acts and the ones that fantasise about or just sit idly by and laugh all perpetuate and normalise this sort of harm towards women.
This has been taking an incredible strain on my mental health.
The marching, the drills, the tekan sessions are bearable. Knowing I sleep in bunks filled with rapists, misogynists and predators on the other hand is not.
I hope what I am experiencing is abnormal, and I just got stuck with a bad batch of recruits. Please tell me your experiences are different.