IAVA: Lincoln was sexist
Jonp sends a link from Stars & Stripes which reports that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs responded to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Executive Director Allison Jaslow when she complained about an Abraham Lincoln quote that the agency uses as a motto;
The VA has had the same motto for 59 years: “To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.” The quote came from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address in 1865, the same year that he created the first-ever government institution for volunteer soldiers.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America called on VA Secretary David Shulkin in November to change the motto, describing it as sexist and outdated. The VA responded Jan. 26 that the motto was representative of “the heart of our noble mission.”
IAVA Executive Director Allison Jaslow felt the response brushed off her group’s request and was dismissive of larger, cultural obstacles for women veterans.
“They’re missing the point that women don’t feel comfortable at the VA,” she said. “We want to be respected and appreciated as much as male veterans are, and the motto is symbolic of overall challenges.”
Typical IAVA focused on the really important things in dealing with veterans and the care they deserve. I was surprised that the responding VA agent was Kayla Williams, director of the VA Center for Women Veterans, who did a fairly good job answering the concerns of IAVA, such as they are;
In Williams’ letter to Jaslow, she emphasized improvements the VA has made regarding care for women veterans. About 500,000 women veterans use VA health care, and they get screened for cervical cancer and breast cancer at higher rates than women do in the private sector or the Department of Defense. They also have access to prenatal and maternity care.
Williams noted each VA hospital has a military sexual trauma coordinator and at least one primary care provider for women’s health.
Jaslow acknowledged once women veterans get into the VA, they generally receive good care. The problem, she said, is making women veterans feel comfortable enough to seek VA treatment.
My doctors at the VA have generally been women. The folks who come to my home and manage my care are all women. They don’t seem to mind the motto at all.
It’s pretty gutsy of the IAVA to demand a motto change at the VA when their CEO is a valor thief.
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Ms. Jaslow, kindly shut up. The only bimp complaining about this is YOU, you silly cow. So shut up now. You are irrelevant.
No Shyt! That pathetic bimbo, WTF is sexist about the plaque, this broad is NUTS and needs to be thrown out of any job that requires anything resembly common sense IMO
Hey hippies, there’s this thing called “context.” Try it sometime.
What I got a kick out of is IAVA’s answer to the sexist quote. This is from the IAVA website: “…IAVA launched the She Who Borne the Battle campaign to right this wrong and transform the landscape for women veterans in our country forever.” So, their answer is to replace sexism with sexism, changing only the gender. Makes sense–if you’re IAVA.
Want to change the landscape forever, IAVA? Demand women register with the Selective Service as all men are required to do at 18yrs
Why does IAVA exist?
Because Paul could not figure out how to extract cash from the VFW
Nothing new here, simply a variation on their theme of delusions and chaos.
Is she in bed with Mikey?
Seems they have common goals.
There’s an image nobody needed. Thanks!
As long as they are going to change the motto to be all inclusive, don’t forget the transgender members, entry level discharge service members, and those that never found the mettle to serve but still claim accolades.
Here you go, Hack:
“To care for [enter your identifier pronoun here] who shall have borne the battle and for[enter your identifier possessive pronoun here] and for [enter your identifier possessive pronoun here] significant other or intimate partner, if any, and [enter your identifier possessive pronoun here] child, if any.”
The soy boys at the IAVA all ass hurt over something that an American President said well before they were born? Is Commissar leading the charge on this issue?
FUCK. THEM.
What-da-mudda-FUCK aren’t SNOWFLAKES offended by these days? FUCK every one of those Atomic Snotweasel QUEEFS to death up the ass sideways with radioactive barbed wire wrapped in diarrhea-soaked asbestos!!!
Our National Anthem? “Waaaayycist”
Our Flag? “waaayyycist”
FUCK ALL OF THOSE SNOWFLAKES!!!
^^^^ This in spades.
Everything is racist, according to the easily offended. Over the last year, Hack has been “woke” to the racism of peanut butand jelly sandwiches; (white) milk; The Cat In The Hat,; and just this week, yoga.
You forgot that Math is racist now as well.
Cheers,
Math
You bet your bippy!
Clowns.
I liked them better when they were more concerned with the things wrong with the VA system and not about some quote from the 1860’s. Yet again something IAVA does not speak for me on; I could give a fat rat’s ass about it, Ms Jaslow there are bigger issues with the VA you should be concerned with you moron.
How about if we change the motto to:
“Call a waaambulance, Allison”
Just think in a couple of more decades in the history books we will all be condemned for only acknowledging 2 genders. Leftists are ducking insane cancerous scum on civilization.
you fat fingered a “d” instead of an “f” in that last sentence. Anyway, that’s how most of us would have typed it.
11/18/56-USSR/Khrushchev-“We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S.-We will destroy you from within…”
Seems he saw into the future. We are now concerned with pronouns, monuments to Civil War generals, what Lincoln said, etc. We are a nation of fucking pussies and we have allowed ourselves to be driven into that realm by people who are of absolutely no real importance. Matters that SHOULD be important take the back seat. I’m concerned about crumbling infrastructure, Korea, illegals, a never-ending number of people on the dole and other issues. I don’t give a FF what Lincoln said, statues and people being butt hurt b/c they are professional victims.
I also am of the opinion that the CEO of the IAVA is a valor thief. That bunk he put out that he was wearing the SF patch on his greens in that photo is bunk. I was an Army Reserve officer when I joined the 19th SFGA immediately after I resigned my RA commission and left AD. I had to apply for and receive a Utah National Guard commission as a requirement to join that unit. So Reikoff had no “orders” assigning him to the 19th SFGA. Also, in his photo he is wearing the Blue Rope of Doom, something no one in SF wears. He sewed that SF patch on as part of his embellishin’ photo op. The unauthorized BSM caps it for me. The fact that proggie Bateman defends him is just icing.
IAVA’s hormone therapy is still failing. I saw more mature behavior in the 5-year-old Sunday School class yesterday.