a letter from the department of defense
well. this is interesting. awaiting my return from chicago was a form letter from the pentagon’s “comprehensive review working group” alerting me to my requested participation in the 2010 Department of Defense (DoD) Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Survey of military spouses.
aside from the amusement of a survey being called “don’t ask, don’t tell” (they didn’t prepare me for that contradiction in my MPH studies, that’s for sure), i am curious to see what sorts of questions they’re going to ask – as well as if there’s any sort of push polling going on. apparently the DoD is trying to “assess the impacts, if any, a change in the law … might have on military family readiness and military community life.”
from where i sit, getting rid of DADT, removing any mention of homosexuality from the UCMJ, allowing gay families (geez, there’s got to be a better term for family units where the central adults are the same sex… oh, wait… “families”?) the same benefits as straight families, and no longer treating a large portion of the military population as typhoid marys could only be a good thing. but maybe i’m queer that way.

i think i am doubly disturbed because before coming across that site, i was perusing the latest in tendon-atrophying, back-swaying, toe-pinching torture devices from christian louboutin. taken in isolation, i find the louboutin shoes visually interesting – the colors and shapes are striking, and there’s an obvious attention to both design detail and craftsmanship. but they’re essentially fetish wear.