The Only Obscenity Is Her Job
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about our local lass, Michelle Manhart, and her recent revelation in Playboy magazine. I don’t subscribe to Playboy—they are too leftist for me—but a friend of mine who is ex-Air Force e-mailed the pictures to me.
The Air Force has relieved Ms. Manhart of duty, issuing a statement saying that she failed to meet the “high standards� of the service. The statement continues, “Nor does [her pictorial] comply with . . . core values of integrity, service . . . and excellence. It is not representative . . . of outstanding airmen.� They have not kicked her out—yet.
I agree it would be inappropriate for a Drill Instructor to become the object of her trainees’ fantasies. Trainees need to be out training, not spending all their time in the showers, fantasizing about their DI. (Female DIs should not be training male recruits, but that’s another subject.) But to say that Ms. Manhart lacks integrity, that she is not representative of people in the service?
Please. That is an oxymoron. Her integrity may be in question, but there is no doubt that she is Representin’.
I grew up in Vista, California. It is right next door to Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, and the city of Oceanside.
Ahh. How well I recall going over to downtown Oceanside and watching all the young marines being “outstanding.� You could always tell when it was payday because marines would be out standing in front of bars and whorehouses—when they weren’t out standing beside a Shore Patrol van awaiting their turn to be loaded in. Those that were not standing were passed out in alleys or at the bus station. Scenes like this are repeated outside our military bases the world over. Ms. Manhart is hardly alone when it comes to “conduct unbecoming.�
Yet, she is the one threatened with discharge.
Can you say, “double standard?� I think you can.
There have also been the predictable ‘Tell it to the E-Rs� and letters–to-editors calling her actions obscene and indecent. Coming, no doubt, from religious folks, or ugly folks, or religious, ugly folks.
Indecent?
On the contrary, she looks mighty decent!
Obscene?
I would like to pose it to the religious types: If she was created in the image of God, what is obscene about her body? What is obscene about her showing off God’s own creation? What is the harm? Who does she hurt? Who are they to condemn? Just to be me I would also ask how God got to be such a hottie.
But seriously, her job is obscene, not her body. She trains people in the fine art of visiting death and destruction upon their fellow man.
I wonder how the religious types feel about that.
War always has been, is, and always will be, the real obscenity.
The Air Force would be doing her a favor if they kicked her out.
More fame and fortune await her, for Ms. Manhart is a beautiful woman—though not as beautiful as my girlfriend is—and if she is not hurting anyone by it, there is nothing wrong with her using her God-given gifts to get what she wants out of life.
Go Michelle!