Word: tailhook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infamous 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas, when male Navy officers and reservists were not assaulting frightened women or drinking from the navels of cooperative ones, they took part in a series of professional seminars. A female naval officer asked a panelist at one such session when women would be permitted to fly combat airplanes. Her question drew hisses and boos and the call "We don't want women!" from the audience. The senior officer on the panel, an admiral, treated it as a joke by ducking under the table...
Female officers insisted those assaults and jeers at Tailhook were two forms of the manhandling that would go on until the second-class status of women in the Navy was ended. To get respect and a fair chance at promotions, they said, they would have to be allowed to serve on warships and fly jet fighters and bombers. "Women will never make it into the Star Trek generation," said Lieut. Paula Coughlin, who exposed the Tailhook scandal, "until they're given equal opportunity to do the jobs open only...
...said he would ask Congress to lift the ban on women serving aboard warships at sea. The change has long been visible on the horizon, but it was hurried along by a Navy eager to do something to smooth the choppy wake left by its official report on Tailhook. As the damaging document was readied for release two weeks ago, Navy brass quietly assured servicewomen at the Pentagon that, as one put it, "something was coming up soon that we would really like...
...Sexual harassment and assault against all women. Just to spread the insult around, he is the Commander of the same military forces that so recently gave us the Tailhook affair. If Powell is really concerned about immoral sexual behavior in the services, perhaps he should worry about the problems caused by overly enthusiastic heterosexuals...
THERE WERE MANY OFFICERS BUT FEW GENTLEMEN AT the 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas. A Pentagon report released last week found that 83 women and seven men were forcibly groped, stripped, bitten on the buttocks or made to drink from the phallus of a fake rhinoceros during the three-day, semiofficial bacchanal. Navy and Marine aviators lured women down a gauntlet of drunken officers who molested them; some walked through the Las Vegas Hilton exposing their testicles or ran naked around the pool. The report is full of lurid new details about the scandal...