How y’all Bitchfaces doing today? Swell. I am glad to see it.
Today, this was released. Allow me to forewarn you, there are graphic sexual descriptions, and a lot of it deals with rape/coercion/forced acts, so tread lightly if you’re a survivor, it can be triggering.
I didn’t say much about this story when it came to light. I figured a female cop was going to be dealing with some shit, no matter what the media had to say about it. Everyone making jokes about her weight, being unattractive, whatever. It doesn’t matter what you look like when you work in a male dominated industry. Ask the engineer in me about that.
However, women in military service and female cops are a whole different arena. This is why, if you ever disrespect a female member of the service near me, I’ll pop you in your shit. They are not only doing a job that even I’m not gangster enough to do, they’re also being serially sexually harassed, assaulted, defamed, shamed, and basically just put through the fucking wringer.
Again, I’m not gangster enough. Working in a department with 27 grown men beneath me who couldn’t fucking stand the fact that I held authority showed me exactly how petty and nasty a man can be to a woman in a position of authority. And I couldn’t jail them or legally put lead in them, so their complaints were minor in comparison.
The fact is this; I tell women when you’re in public, if a man asks you for help, it should put all of your senses into overdrive. Every one of them. Why? Because the average man doesn’t believe that a woman can offer assistance to him. His car won’t start? Psssh. That bitch won’t understand how to hook up the cables. His tire is flat? Pssssh. That bitch can’t get the lug nuts off. He’s lost? Psssh. Bitches are terrible with directions.
You see where I’m going with this?
Yet, as women, we’re raised to help. To nurture. To be “little mommies”, and “teachers”, and “helpful”. Which is exactly what predators rely on. Oh, that guy is limping and can’t lift those bags into his truck. Boom. Bitch now you’re locked in some shipping container on a backwood spread well on your way to becoming victim #6 to the as of yet unidentified I-4 serial killer.
All because you thought he needed some assistance.
This is why I feel that women who are military or LEO really are taking them chances, and I just wouldn’t put myself in that spot. No shade at all, y’all know how I feel about a soldier, but it’s a risk I just wouldn’t take. And a cop? Hell, I’ve seen the way a lot of cops treat women in general. God forbid I should hear their locker room talk.
Welllllp. Check out the document above, and you can read their locker room talk in the form of a complaint to the Federal Courts.
Maegan Hall is suing the shit out of the department she worked for, and with good reason. She was treated like a sex doll instead of a cop. Multiple instances of forced sexual activity, the amount of sexual harassment is just fucking vulgar, and many other cited occasions that I just don’t have the time to recount because we’d be here all fucking week.
I’m not saying that all of the men in that department are shit, but if they knew about it, then yea, they’re shit. Because that’s beyond a hostile environment. That’s a living, breathing, rape culture. And it bred exactly that.
It’s not even safe for women to hold office jobs at this point in time. We’re still groped and harassed and just generally treated like meat. To be in a hypercharged environment with men who statistically abuse women at about 2.5 times the rate of other men? Nope. I’ll pass. You can keep that shit.
I hope they vindicate the woman. However, I really doubt it. She’s ruined, her marriage and her life, and that’s unfortunately her truth now. But maybe it will help a young woman in the future. I don’t know. I know that I put in my own bones, and still see a lot of the same shit I took in the 90’s going on out here.
The times, they aren’t a changin’.
Also, as usual when I discuss anything military, thank y’all, I love y’all. Y’all know this.
Anyway, tell me what you think. Holler at a Queen.
-Q