Feminist naval gazing
While the fact that sailors on the HMAS Success were competing to shag as many women as possible was definitely not a good look, I do think that some people are over-reacting a tad.
Melinda Tankard-Reist, for instance, says:
"I don't believe these men should be able to serve at sea anymore because they're not reliable, they can't be trusted, they don't respect women and these are not the kind of men that we need defending us."
Considering the fact that they may be required to sacrifice their own lives, and take the lives of others, then I think that requiring they all be attitudinally reconstructed SNAGs is just too big an ask. Call me old fashioned, but I want blokes courageous enough to effectively defend us defending us. If they also happen to be randy sexist boofheads, so be it.
Tankard-Reist also says that female sailors ("seapersons"?) "have a right to feel safe in their place of work".
Eh? In the armed forces?
