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Title: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Rob52240 on December 07, 2012, 12:40:41 PM
Due to sexual assaults the US Air Force has decided to ban pictures of naked, or half naked women in all work spaces and public areas. 

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/12/air-force-health-welfare-insepctions2-120512

Thoughts?
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: smoe on December 07, 2012, 12:53:24 PM
Actually that may make it worse, but who knows.

If the USAF really wants to cut down on sexual assaults they should post abstinence stuff like male only pin-ups. That in my opinion would reduce most males from wanting any sex what so ever. Then again the other US services would love to see that happen, but not the actual pin-ups.
 :rofl
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Shifty on December 07, 2012, 01:08:22 PM
I was active duty USAF for 16 years, and I don't recall ever seeing pinups in work spaces and public areas.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: GScholz on December 07, 2012, 01:44:52 PM
Why can't they just stop sexually assaulting women?
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Nathan60 on December 07, 2012, 02:06:44 PM
Why can't they just stop sexually assaulting women?
  Now I know some hack is going to come here and post something along the lines of 'it wouldnt happen if they'd get back in the kitchen'  I'd like to say while that is  funny it probably will not be well recieved.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Rob52240 on December 07, 2012, 02:45:43 PM
I don't know a lot of recent vets well but I know 2 who had bad things happen to them after realizing they were the only girl in the room.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Guppy35 on December 07, 2012, 02:54:53 PM
I was active duty USAF for 16 years, and I don't recall ever seeing pinups in work spaces and public areas.

That would seem like fairly common sense stuff.  You can go back to the WW2 pin up art on aircraft and there were an number of attempts/orders to clean them up so that they wouldn't be 'offensive'.   Much ado about nothing I think, but typical news fodder.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: jeep00 on December 07, 2012, 03:09:49 PM
  Now I know some hack is going to come here and post something along the lines of 'it wouldnt happen if they'd get back in the kitchen'  I'd like to say while that is  funny it probably will not be well recieved.

So you chose to be the one to bring it forward. And it isn't actually funny. Crass yes but not funny.

As to the removal, it is happening (too slowly) across all work spaces. Get used to it. Choose whatever reason you think is the one, but accept it and move on or stay in your cave. To help, your (generally speaking, not saying anyone in particular) perception of it does not matter in public, meaning anywhere outside your own home/vehicle, it is in the eyes of the beholder. As all things in life, we have to be able to truly look at it from someone else's perspective to understand why it can be an issue.

Bob
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: TheBug on December 07, 2012, 03:36:28 PM
I was active duty USAF for 16 years, and I don't recall ever seeing pinups in work spaces and public areas.

The guys probably took them down when you were around so you weren't offended.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Seanaldinho on December 07, 2012, 04:32:48 PM
Ive seen a few of them around the fighter wing here... the boys wont be pleased by this haha
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Slash27 on December 07, 2012, 04:33:58 PM
Why can't they just stop sexually assaulting women?
It's not their fault. It's the naughty pictures. Years ago I stopped listening to heavy metal and I have yet to bite the head off any small mammals or worship Satan since doing so.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: MarineUS on December 07, 2012, 04:58:19 PM
That's just un-American. :P
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: BoilerDown on December 07, 2012, 05:37:15 PM
So the Air Force just caught up to the 1990s.  K.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Seanaldinho on December 07, 2012, 06:10:18 PM
So the Air Force just caught up to the 1990s.  K.


Well you know the Navy prides itself on the finest 1970s technology. USAF has got em beat by a couple decades  :D ;) :bolt:
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: eagl on December 08, 2012, 12:53:25 AM
They banned that stuff around 20 years ago.  Some people didn't get the memo apparently so the only thing that is "new" is a command directed one-time inspection of all workspaces for situations where existing policy was not enforced.

Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: rpm on December 08, 2012, 01:18:41 AM
So the Air Force just caught up to the 1990s.  K.

It was that way in the 70's in the USCG.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: OOZ662 on December 08, 2012, 05:55:56 PM
As all things in life, we have to be able to truly look at it from someone else's perspective to understand why it can be an issue.

This stance has always entertained me, because there isn't anything stopping the other person's perspective being that of a hormonally imbalanced 15 year old that jumps at anything that walks or that of a Nun who's never left the convent.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Rob52240 on December 09, 2012, 06:58:09 PM
It's not their fault. It's the naughty pictures. Years ago I stopped listening to heavy metal and I have yet to bite the head off any small mammals or worship Satan since doing so.

I heard you bit the head off a cow once.  And milk sprayed out of its neck.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: Devonai on December 10, 2012, 08:29:56 AM
The only thing on the walls of my base for the last five years have been USAF-issue framed photos of aircraft we will never have, aircraft we once had, the mandatory bulletin board in each building with wing info (KNOW YOUR CHAPLAINS, etc), motivational posters, and the current FPCON.

Prior to that I was in the Army Guard for six years.  I never saw anything like that there, either, and I was in an infantry company.  Maybe pinups are less popular in New England, I don't know.
Title: Re: USAF bans pin-ups
Post by: BreakingBad on December 10, 2012, 10:03:19 AM
I think they will survive.