Pearl - August 16, 2025


Modern Women Becoming Infantry Is A Horrible Idea - Male Soldiers Agree


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Length

12 minutes

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185.75388

Word count

2,234

Sentence count

2

Harmful content

Misogyny

16

sentences flagged

Hate speech

6

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Summary

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In this episode, we are reacting to one of the first women to ever serve as an infantry woman in the United States Marine Corps. We talk about the challenges she faced as a female Marine and what it was like being a female in the military.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 what up guys welcome to my reaction series today we are reacting to one of the first women infantry
00:00:05.760 mortsmen talking about how women can't do the job um the same way men can so we're gonna watch this
00:00:12.440 podcast and let me know what you think in the comments like all those were like nothing you
00:00:16.240 know and in hindsight for me now who i am today and how much i've hiked it's like that wouldn't
00:00:21.340 have been anything for me right now but back then when i'd never put weight on my back and
00:00:27.680 walked 20 clicks like that's a lot i actually have a incredible picture of like i just got done with
00:00:35.060 my 20k that's the last hike that you do in itb before you go to the fleet that's like your you
00:00:41.860 made it um but i had these giant welts all over my legs probably about this big and then i had like
00:00:47.780 on my arms just from like the gear and like the pack and everything and um yeah that was really
00:00:54.700 tough um every all the other physical portions and stuff like that's fine it was just like the
00:01:00.340 hikes that were really just a shock that a lot of women don't realize when they join the military it's 1.00
00:01:04.700 like you hike and no one really knows what rucking is and like they don't know it's not like a nature
00:01:10.280 hike like you go and no no it's not really not it's the marine corps is not a no it's not apart no 0.82
00:01:15.740 like you put some serious weight on your back and you start walking for miles and uh and men do this
00:01:22.680 all the time but they don't get podcasts for it right but when women do something men can do and
00:01:27.500 when we do it even at a worse rate we get all this media attention that a lot of women don't realize 1.00
00:01:32.140 that you know right and you know what i saw in leadership positions when i was in the fleet i saw
00:01:37.540 a lot of hip injuries for females yeah our hips are just not meant to hold weight like that we're meant 1.00
00:01:43.680 we are literally designed to birth children and our hips are just different because of that so men's 1.00
00:01:50.340 hips they're straight to stack weight on top like it's just straight women's are curved to be able 1.00
00:01:55.500 to birth a child that's like you know it's that's why they get a lot of hip injuries because our
00:02:00.820 hips are just not meant to carry weight like that um and then the other hard part was obviously like 1.00
00:02:08.020 the scrutiny the uh the scrutiny that i got from my you know some some of the peers i had in itb
00:02:15.280 and then um you know like just yeah just some of the i've heard females in the military are kind of 1.00
00:02:23.440 slutty i'm not saying she was but you know that's the impression scrutiny it was not it wasn't super
00:02:30.700 terrible right for me um but i yeah it was there's always going to be scrutiny wherever you go i want
00:02:38.880 i want to really get into that so yeah when did you when you went to itb was there any scenario how
00:02:45.360 many females did you go through it was just me you were the only one i was you i've been the only one 0.99
00:02:49.760 for my career wow man that's crazy so have you been through a nasty breakup a false accusation or divorce
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00:03:28.480 we gotta stop with this these sips always gas them up i mean she's doing what the guys do do you feel
00:03:34.720 was it do you feel like there was a little bit of discrimination when you went to itb i think eyes
00:03:42.400 were definitely on me um you know i think oh my gosh any male dominated feel that you go into as a
00:03:52.320 woman like there's definitely going to be eyes on you at all times there was more discrimination against 1.00
00:03:58.560 me in the fleet than there was in the schoolhouse because you got to remember i was on the east coast in
00:04:03.200 the schoolhouse where they had females a lot more females yeah when you go to the west coast it just
00:04:08.480 happened recently that they started letting women do boot camp in the west coast so um i just don't
00:04:14.160 know why they're there let me see the other part she does so she talks about how female hips aren't 1.00
00:04:18.960 really meant to do that um let's see let me skip forward a little bit you're in such a safe healthy
00:04:27.280 community when you go into a place like this it's like going into like you know uh like a pack of
00:04:33.680 wolves like you know you're either gonna get eaten alive or you're gonna become one of them you know
00:04:40.400 so i just i think i was very um what's the word um i was just so like new and i didn't know a lot and i
00:04:51.760 didn't see some terrible things like the terrible things that guys could say or do and so when they
00:04:58.000 said those things like you also don't want to be the girl that was like you don't want to be labeled
00:05:03.920 you know like you don't want to be like i hate that yeah i hate that yeah you don't want to be 0.88
00:05:09.040 labeled like oh she's like one of those me too girls you know when it's not that it's just like 0.94
00:05:14.400 you're blatantly saying something disrespectful but you know so i didn't do that okay this is the thing
00:05:19.120 women feel the need whenever they're offended to do like oh my god it's hell on earth you will never 1.00
00:05:24.640 win against a scorned woman ever just let them win a lot in the schoolhouse i actually got an njp out
00:05:33.280 of the schoolhouse um really yeah because there was a rumor started about me that i was sleeping with
00:05:40.160 one of the other students she probably was and no proof nothing just one written um
00:05:48.400 uh what's the word uh it's like a statement one written statement given to the first sergeant and
00:05:54.480 all of the instructors jumped on that all the all of my instructors jumped on that um and uh then i was
00:06:02.400 just njp'd for it nothing happened to me so so for those of you who don't know uh article 15 is a
00:06:09.040 non-judicial punishment and essentially what it is is administrative reprimand for doing something
00:06:15.600 without being adjudicated through a court right you can they either suspend your rank it's documented
00:06:21.040 in your record it's like a slap it's bigger than a slap on a wrist because people would uh but i know
00:06:27.760 that had to be difficult for you just getting into you know passing boot camp going to the schoolhouse
00:06:34.400 did you feel like you were going to be kicked out from kicked out of the schoolhouse i was so new i
00:06:38.800 didn't know what that really meant i learned about it in boot camp a little bit but you know they just
00:06:42.400 like make you repeat stuff so you remember it you don't actually know what that means you don't
00:06:46.320 know anything so when that happened they didn't do anything except give me the njp i didn't get rank
00:06:51.440 reduction i didn't get cut in pay i actually picked up the next day now imagine if that happened to a man
00:06:56.800 if he got written up do you think it would have been the same as pfc um it was so bad i think they
00:07:06.320 just wanted to make an example out of women honestly uh in a way um because it was just like okay no so
00:07:13.920 when she says that i want like they want to make an example out of me she's saying i was treated like
00:07:18.880 men are and i'm not used to it thanks for the njp it didn't nothing happened to me like because they had
00:07:25.040 one statement from one guy saying that he thought he heard something that was the statement oh and
00:07:30.240 they njp the other guy as well um that was like the rumor was started about you know right um so uh
00:07:38.320 yeah nothing happened to me and when i got to my unit um my first sergeant at the time was just like
00:07:44.880 okay like well that's fine we don't care so uh i wasn't worried about getting kicked out or anything
00:07:55.280 because they weren't they didn't even drop me or anything they just i was like okay okay that's it
00:08:01.040 so now you graduated uh from itb and then what was the next step what did you go next and the next step
00:08:06.640 was um getting in the fleet i was originally supposed to be stationed on camp lejeune um but all 24
00:08:14.560 mortar men's orders got changed to go to 35 west coast because they were hurting for guys so bad
00:08:20.160 so i went over to 35 on camp pendleton in the 62 area near san clemeni um and yeah that's uh that's
00:08:29.120 that was the next step for me now let's let's really unpack this part right so you're the only female 1.00
00:08:35.200 what about now how many females are in um actually in your platoon me that's it i'm the only female 0.93
00:08:41.840 in my company right now the whole company the whole company and that's around 300 300 400 people right
00:08:48.320 it's pretty small right now just because we got just got back from deployment so people are leaving
00:08:52.880 easing numbers are thinning but okay let's see what else um and this is the thing uh let's talk about
00:09:00.080 sexual assault okay um the fact that my like senior marines you know your ncos uh they just didn't like
00:09:08.640 that i was there because male pride is real i think all pride is real like oh my gosh oh whether
00:09:16.320 it's male female like everyone has pride but especially men that joined the infantry um the
00:09:23.440 marine corps the marine corps infantry especially that pride is different right it's a way stronger
00:09:29.920 more protected pride and for me to come i think my ncos just almost were insulted that i was there
00:09:39.600 um because they were told by their ncos when they were junior marines that they would never get a female
00:09:44.560 that that would never happen and it did it happened and they hated that i was there and they didn't want
00:09:49.600 me there and so um they uh influenced my peers not to hang out with me and not to speak to me or talk
00:09:58.400 to me yeah so when women are socially rejected they can't take it men it's normal men aren't really
00:10:04.160 talked to like that um but the the challenge is the challenge you get is um women have a tendency to take 1.00
00:10:15.680 it more personal and seek vengeance not because they were scared that they were going to even on
00:10:19.600 liberty no i i was very alone for a long time i was very lonely um and uh so i didn't have any real
00:10:30.960 friends and even when i did make a friend i had one person say like i'm sorry i want to be your friend
00:10:36.480 but i just don't want to get in trouble so like i can't it's probably because they don't want a sexual
00:10:40.880 assault allegation talk to you anymore and so i was like well i guess i understand which you know
00:10:46.880 at the time i just i didn't know what else you know i was like so you're like in the barracks on
00:10:52.000 camp pendleton and then your off time you had really i mean what did you do the past time um i had
00:10:58.720 like maybe one friend that from itb that stuck with me um and you know he tried to spend as much
00:11:06.080 time with me as i could and you know i would try to hang out with people around the barracks and
00:11:10.320 stuff but i'd really just be on my own i'd work out and you know i'd watch movies or read or paint
00:11:17.120 or do something fun uh but i never really involved other people and when it did it was more because
00:11:24.560 they were not because they really wanted to be my friend or hang out with me because they liked
00:11:29.120 hanging out with me it's more just because they wanted to either get somewhere and they had other
00:11:36.000 intentions or because they were just like curious and then i would yeah um okay but now we're seeing
00:11:44.400 at least um that women firsthand are saying that they're not really built to be in the military like 1.00
00:11:50.400 that uh but let me know what you guys think in the comments make sure you like the video on your
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