{"id":69829,"date":"2015-06-16T19:03:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T03:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69829"},"modified":"2015-06-16T19:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T03:03:31","slug":"military-man-apologizes-for-telling-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69829","title":{"rendered":"Military Man Apologizes For Telling The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/military-sexual-misconduct-due-to-biological-wiring-gen-tom-lawson-says-1.3115993\">CBC.ca<\/a>: Sexual harassment is still an issue in the Canadian Forces because people are &#8220;biologically wired in a certain way,&#8221; Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson said Tuesday, drawing outrage from opposition politicians and on social media.<\/p>\n<p>After CBC News aired excerpts of his comments, Lawson quickly backpedalled and apologized for what he called an &#8220;awkward characterization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with CBC&#8217;s chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge, airing tonight on The National, Lawson said the &#8220;terrible issue&#8221; of military sexual harassment &#8220;disturbs the great majority of everyone in uniform and yet, we&#8217;re still dealing with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be a trite answer, but it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re biologically wired in a certain way and there will be those who believe it is a reasonable thing to press themselves and their desires on others. It&#8217;s not the way it should be,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much as we would very much like to be absolutely professional in everything we do, and I think by and large we are, there will be situations and have been situations where, largely, men will see themselves as able to press themselves onto our women members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC.ca: Sexual harassment is still an issue in the Canadian Forces because people are &#8220;biologically wired in a certain way,&#8221; Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson said Tuesday, drawing outrage from opposition politicians and on social media. After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69829\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29701,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-rape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69830,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69829\/revisions\/69830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}