Matthis on the prostitution scandal
Taking advantage of his big megaphone at the Huffington Post, Matthis uses the opportunity to tell us what a great big expert he is on all matters military, but all he is, as always, is a great big blowhard. He tells what to think about the Secret Service scandal in Colombia this last weekend. You can go read the whole thing, but I have a few clarifications to make on his mumbling bullshit;
I continued by revealing the details of a particularly painful memory from a deployment to the Philippines, in which I was unwittingly purchased by a prostitute and later made to have sex with her, despite neither of us having really been equal or willing partners. Of the experience, I concluded that, “I sold out on my manhood that night… I felt as though I had raped her. I felt as though I had raped myself.”
At the time, my piece created quite an uproar in the anti-war community which had not yet begun acknowledging the existence of these issues for our military.
How does a guy get “purchased by a prostitute”? It’s been my experience that it’s usually the other way around, that’s what makes them a prostitute. I don’t know about the “uproar” that his tale caused in the anti-war community, but what caused an uproar on my blog was the fact that he blamed his flesh purchase on the military culture. No one forced him to make the deal, he willingly pulled the bills from his wallet and exchanged those bills for sex. There’s nothing in the military culture that mandated his behavior. In fact, the military was the first organized US institution to begin frowning on engaging in prostitution and made such encounters illegal for it’s members serving overseas. That Matthis didn’t get the message is not the fault of the culture. More than likely, he simply ignored the rules.
He went on to describe how his peers forced him to watch a “banana show” in Okinawa. Now I’d never heard of such a thing, so I had to look it up. But, I’d like to know how someone could be forced to watch the performance if they didn’t want to see it. I have two legs which can carry me right out of the building, and they work on command.
If we are seriously going to tell the military no more sex with prostitutes, and no more alcohol binging for that matter, half the force may desert overnight, and no one would show up for basic training.
Yeah, nice try. People don’t join the military just to engage in sex with prostitutes, and it’s naive and close minded to even say that stupid shit out loud. Maybe Matthis had problems getting company without having to pay for it, but the rest of us can’t be lumped in with his narrow experience. As far as I know there aren’t any prostitutes in Afghanistan, and no one is complaining about that aspect of the duty there. The same went for Iraq.
In my two decades living immersed in the military culture, I never felt pressured to engage in solicited and compensated sex. I’m not saying I didn’t, but I’m saying no one ever pressured me into it. Peers or superiors.
This is just another example of Matthis not assuming responsibility for his own actions.
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Bullshit…you don’t “unwittingly purchase a prostitute” nor unwittingly get “purchased” by one.
Matthis is a stark raving tool, apparently ginning up “painful memories” whenever he starves for attention.
All I can add is what fucking military was he in?
Prolly the peace corps.
he is just working on his claim for MST… what the hell, next he will be talking about how he was the Platoon Pivot man, wore a blonde wig, falsies, and how he really hated doing it night after night but… butt.. he was not himself those nights
“This is just another example of Matthis not assuming responsibility for his own actions.”
I disagree. This is another example of Matthis playing a “victim”. He gave a person money. He dropped his pants, they dropped their pants, and then they engaged in bumping uglies. It was a business deal; no more, no less. He wasn’t raped, unless he feels he paid too much, then it was economic rape.
Matthis is a whining, snivveling little chickenshit. Nothing more.
You give him more credit than he’s due, Redacted1775. Chickenshit has a use – it makes good fertilizer.
@5 Redacted, why do you wanna give whiners and snivellers a bad name?! I can’t think of a low enough word to call matthis.
I remember when a PI hooker tried to trick me into purchasing her services. She was very cunning, she came up to me and said “Hey, Joe, love you long time, no shit. We sucky-fucky for $20 OK”
Thank god I managed to escape her devious trap
Purchased BY a prostitute?
sounds like the old bar story…No shit, there I was…I was so good the Hooker/stripper GAVE THE MONEY BACK…
I’ve unwittingly entered what I thought was a place to get a massage, and figured out very quickly that they were massaging more than backs and shoulders…but I didn’t stay for the handy…I commanded my legs to walk, and by God, they did–right out the door. I nobody got purchased nor raped…
Any one else imagine the guys stuck with him just getting frustrated and tying him up with 100mph and dumping him at a whorehouse lost and found?
Just goggled “banana show”, very interesting.
I was conned into seeing the Banana show when I was on Oki; what a waste of 10,000 Yen.
There wasn’t a ‘serpent’ when I wnet, so now I really want my money back.
…ok, so who is going to stop the suspense and give us a safe for work description of a banana show.
What I think is so sad…these are supposed to be the Best of the Best (refer to MeninBlack) and they got caught. Guys, if you’re the best of the best, you’re not supposed to fuck up and get caught. Even I had better training than that.
PLEASE, please, someone do something about (to) Matthis and put him out of OUR memory. For the love of all that’s holy.
“I felt as though I had raped her. I felt as though I had raped myself.” So, Methis is trying to say that he raped himself? This thing suffers from a bad case of narcissistic personality disorder. It’s an easy way for him to make this all about him, again.
“My piece created quite an uproar in the anti-war community which had not yet begun acknowledging the existence of these issues for our military”. Nope, no uproar, Methis, because your “issue” doesn’t exist, except in that hollow space between your ears.
Awww god!!! My eyes are melting after reading this POS’s screed. The recruiter should have stopped him at the door. Arrrggghhh…retch, retch, spit, spit.
If all he saw was the banana show, he got raped. Should’ve stuck around for the peso show
Maybe he’ll join the border patrol and report back on his unwilling encounters: “Do you want to see the donkey? No? Sorry, amigo, the donkey wants to see you…”
Read the story. The overuse of lascivious vulgarity for impact is dilettantish and boorish and assertions of such abhorrent behavior as the norm based purely on hearsay is taradiddle. The Matthis I knew could do way better.
@20, “Gee Mr. Taggart, you use your mouth prettier than a $20 whore.”
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At the time, my piece created quite an uproar in the anti-war community
Is he saying that the anti-war community is so dickless that even his piece was able to cause an uproar?
Sorry, couldn’t let a straight line like that one go.
Red light districts in Germany were rather entertaining at the end of a drunken binge.
Wasn’t pressured, but did participate.
@13 – Not it.
That’s a night of banana, karaoke, and vodka/red bulls I’d rather forget……
This is so stupid it is almost painful to read. And I certainly have no interest in reading any more than what Jonn posted!
Delusional for sure. To include delusions of raping someone who paid to have sex with you? Huh?? The weird meter has pegged.
Instinct–$20? In PI? Man, you really DID get raped.
I was conned into seeing the Banana show when I was on Oki; what a waste of 10,000 Yen.
Another rape victim. Try Pattaya Beach, Thailand–banana, peso (or baht in that case), horn, darts, needles, razor blades–I was a good boy the rest of that trip after seeing that.
Maybe Matthis DID get sold to a prostitute, and it was a HE!
I’m thinking Matthis and Yon ought to get together and compare notes.
Hey Matthis, what about all that Ecstasy you bought AFTER proclaiming your righteousness?! Oh wait, also the cocaine you’ve been using… And the pot you’re smoking? Ah, that’s right. Nobody’s fooled by you.
It’s unfortunate Huffington Post gave him leeway to writing this bullshit. Also, for all you readers out there, I recommend you do your research on Chiroux. He is NOT and Afghanistan war veteran as he proclaims. He spent a week on base while the war was raging in Iraq. There was NO combat in Afghanistan during that time. So, word to Huffington Post, you’re aiding a blatant liar. Chiroux is trying to get his PTSD claim in so that he can defraud the VA and take the money from deserving veterans. There have been public statements made by Robert Chiroux (his father), Kristofer Goldsmith, Brandon Neely and Casey Porter (who voluntarily left the group IVAW due to his cons), Blanka (Iraq War veteran and prior neighbor). Chiroux also had a restraining order placed on him by two prior roommates. I hope all readers take this into account.
The uproar created was that we didn’t want a fucking rapist in our ranks.
Frothy, incoherent rage.
I survived 3 years on the rock without ever seeing the banana show. Closest I came was I heard the pieces drop onto the stage. (Sat in the back where you couldn’t see the stage whilst my drunken cohorts watched). Worst part is the lady’s been doing that show since VIETNAM. 😐
Awww, come on, guys! Take it easy on poor Mathis. He couldn’t get laid if he crawled up a chicken’s ass and waited. Maybe this is the only way he can relieve his… um… stress. He probably had to pay the hooker double just to get her to stop laughing. I would call that traumatic, wouldn’t you?
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@AS / So outraged that y’all kept for how many years after his confession, flag burning, and lying about his service?
The outrage was clearly demonstrated with action. lol
If you think the banana show is impressive, you should see what they can do with the loose change in your pocket.
Having said that, you don’t want to be the one that eats the banana.
OK, I’m not going to Google it at work. Someone please explain in SFW terms what this banana show thing is!
Nicki, it’s really not much more than some bad music and an older lady who can insert a banana and shoot pieces of it out of her ladyparts.
Some of the guys I was TDY with had been before and after a few vodka and red bulls, it didn’t seem like that bad of an idea.
I don’t remember what the exchange rate was in 2009, but 10,000Yen was not well spent that night.
It’s an old Okinawan lady that cuts up a banana with her girl parts. And can give you exact change after picking up a roll of quarters with her girl parts. Entertainment for extermely drunk people.
NHSparky – Like I said, I didn’t get sucked into her deviously clever trap. But yea, she knew it was my first cruise and, I guess, figured I was too dumb to know the going rates.
Our Public Affairs officer briefed us on all the local diseases we could get and my 1st class briefed us on the various costs to catch those diseases.
Nicki – I’m not sure there is a SFW way to describe it. I did see one ‘performer’ open a beer bottle.
OMG, you guys! LOL!!!! I just shot a green bean out of my nose laughing. Is that comparable?
I’m thinking if I were a guy, I would not want my giblets anywhere near a hoohah that can slice up ANYTHING!
But uh… I really appreciate the explanation! LOL!!
Check out Matthis’ fuckface page…er facefuck….face…eh you know what I mean….commentary on “war porn” inbound. As soon as he stops rocking back and forth in the corner saying warporn over and over again.
Check out anything written by Matthis Chiroux? Damn, Redacted1775 – why would I want to. I hate puking.
I venture there from time to time to check out the occasional comment left by a real vet calling him out. I try not to actually read anything the little douche weasel writes. It’s also interesting to see drugs take their toll on someone through the history of their pictures in the media.
@ #30 – If you can, please refrain from using my full name when it comes to this subject. It shows up on my Google search and I don’t want any association with it, whatsoever. Thank you.
I was his sergeant in Japan. Got him right out of AIT. He was an idiot then, and he’s an idiot now. Never mentions his not one but TWO article 15s, one for insubordination, one for admitting to using peyote (which was hilarious, by the way. Called up an NCO, told her he was high. Brilliant). If I remember correctly, we demoted him on both occasions. Boy just couldn’t keep rank. Hell, I’m the one who sent him to the Philippines on that assignment. NEVER mentioned any of his experiences there. Came back all excited about his story and photos and what a great time he had. He must have been SOOO torn up about what happened. It’s all a shame, really. Truthfully, he was a promising photojournalist. But he was a sociopath, plain and simple. Every word that came out of his mouth was a lie. Seems nothing has changed.