The end of the airman's pin-up

Science Chic wrote: Sexual assaults are not about sex, they're about power and domination over another; what women wear has no bearing. They increase in an atmosphere in which a group is objectified and disrespected. Pin-up calendars do not cause sexual assaults, but they do not help the culture of it being acceptable because women have already been objectified.

Banning pin-up calendars is dumb, considering the pervasiveness of sexualized, objectifying advertising in our society and continued brainwashing of kids that men are the hormonally-controlled pursuers, and women are supposed to be the responsible moral brakes and sex is bad so we aren't going to honestly talk about it and its consequences. What they need to do is institute training and education, but that's more involved time- and expense-wise so it won't happen.

Hey look! Common sense from the left!

To me banning pinup calendars is a band-aid at best. With smart phones, airmen will have access to all kinds of good smut they can use to objectify women.