Yeah it's crazy Champ. Dudes are just out of their minds when it comes to pu$$y.
One of my kids went into the military and I'm talkin to her on the phone and she's got three different dudes in the barracks that won't take no for an answer. So I tell her "you gotta be firm and honest with dudes that you're not interested in" and of course she is doing just that but she's a cute thing and these guys proceed with the creeper behavior anyways.
It's hard for dudes to understand what that feels like I think. The non-stop nature of it is just nuts. In the Navy I'll still have to yoke up junior personnel for staring at even female leaders, it's part of the culture still that needs to change. I'm sure the NFL and the Navy have a lot of similarities in those ways.
After Navy boot, I went to Nuclear Field ET "A" school at the NTC Orlando where I went to boot.
While I was in boot, because my wife missed me so much (we were married at 21 and I joined at 23), she hung around the recruiting station a lot to try and understand what I was joining and what I was going through.
After a few weeks, the recruiter tried to rape my wife. He saw no punishment besides being reassigned and forced out ONLY after a few years when he'd get his 20 and thus, get his Navy pension. Yep. Attempted Rapist and still gets his Navy pension...
Wish I was kidding.
Worse, my wife wrote me a letter expecting that I would blame her and APOLOGIZING for what happened. (no way in hell I blamed her or would ever in case anyone was confused)
I sat on it a few days, seriously contemplating going UA (unauthorized absence) and killing him. He's the only person I've seriously thought of ending their lives with my own hands. I honestly wasn't sure what to do because I'd be in jail for a long time. Trust me, I thought about it.
And while the command at my end was impressed that I maintained my military bearing in the face of this and they forced the other command to take SOME sort of action, it wasn't near enough.
Fast forward to my first week of ET "A" School and they had a "sexual harassment" class.
I walked out. I stood up and formally walked out because the instructors were joking about it. Freak that. I was willing to be disciplined, but there was no way on God's Green Earth that I was gonna listen to some Navy asshole joke about sexual harassment when my wife had nearly been raped only weeks before BY my recruiter (actually, it was his loser Petty Officer partner, but...yeah).
My advisor, a newly minted CPO, when I told him about what happened with my wife, stood by me. I saw no punishment and the command was ALWAYS very supportive of my wife.
But I'll never forget a room full of my Navy shipmates, who I trusted and liked and became friends with... laughing about the very thing my own wife went through.
My wife didn't report it because, like a lot of women, she thought that it must be her fault. Freak that. *I* reported it and I'm thankful that my faith overrode my anger and hatred (I shudder at how close that call was).
If I mistakenly believe the occasional woman who falsely reports, as much as that's not okay for all the obvious reasons, I'll take that over disbelieving a woman who braves the public to report. Men will NEVER know how hard it is simply to tell a close loved one, let alone go public.
I'll leave it at that.