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Pete Hegseth removes all women and some Black service members from navy promotion list
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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It sounds suspiciously like you’re saying that men don’t know how to cook…
Edit: Downvotes aren’t changing my opinion that this person is saying that women are a requirement for a hot meal and that I feel like that’s sexist. In fact they’re really just confusing me more than anything else.
Not sure if troll or... But gonna assume you just can't consider consequences.
They are saying that taking people who know what they are doing and have been trained for a role and then you replace them with idiots who just got out of boot and haven't been trained to make mess for thousands of people, then its gonna be trouble.
So, yes, a random group of men, without any preparation or training to do so, cannot cook for thousands of people.
You did not need to explain it to me. My problem is with pointlessly gendering things. Replacing experienced people with unexperienced people is always going to be a problem regardless of what gender those people are. So starting the comment by saying this is why hot meals can’t be served just makes it sound like the commentor is being sexist.
Hot meals are a part of logistics. They were saying due to sexism in the military, women had been relegated to those roles for years, and now you have a field dominated by women. Pete, not promoting those women with all the experience results in men with less experience in that role being in charge of logistics work.