Nancy Pelosi, President Trump, and Women in the Military (with Lt. Col. Jeannette Haynie)

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🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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It's the last week of our annual Patreon drive! We're so close to our big goal! Visit our Patreon page to become part of the incredible community that supports our work and get access to exciting bonus content and perks. We discuss the tension between President Trump and Congress, specifically the House of Representatives led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We also share our conversation with Lt. Col. Jeannette Gaudry Haynie, a Naval Academy graduate an attack helicopter pilot who is doing important research focusing on the gendered nature of conflict. Thanks to our sponsors: The Politics Guys, Ollie, and Express VPN. Our book, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening), is available! You can purchase it now - for yourself, for friends, for your representative, for your senator, for everyone! We appreciate all of you who are spreading the word about the book to your local bookstores, libraries, and social circles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	He pulled me into his office and said,
0:02.2	I'm so glad we have a female pilot,
0:04.5	female officer, if any of the female enlisted Marines
0:08.4	have a problem, I want them to come directly to you for help.
0:11.4	And I said, and if they do that,
0:13.4	I'll refer them directly to their chain of command
0:15.6	because that's not my job.
0:17.1	And honestly, in an ideal world
0:19.7	that probably would have been the right answer.
0:21.6	But I saw my role as I'm a Marine just like everybody else.
0:25.2	What I failed to see was that women in the Marine Corps,
0:29.0	in particular, even though I acknowledged it on the fringes,
0:32.0	I didn't really understand how deeply it affected us,
0:35.1	that that objectification, that different set of standards,
0:38.8	double standards being applied by the Marines around us,
0:41.5	the subordination that was constantly being internally
0:44.7	and mentally applied to these women.
0:46.2	I didn't see that for what it was.
0:48.0	I thought it was just a risk.
0:49.2	I could push through it.
0:50.6	If I could push through it, bite my tongue
0:52.3	and get tough skin, then everybody else
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