So did Atheism + bite the dust?

[Thumpalumpacus]

There was a feminist who attacks our Vets https://nomeansnofeminism.wordpress.com/...an-heroes/ , if that is not shameful i don't know what is
and why attack these people in the first place. They did their job they served over seas and the last thing they need to come back to is someone who is ready and willing to attack them back at home with words.

Firstly, I looked through your link -- nowhere in there does that lady disparage veterans.

Secondly, there were indeed rapists, and several high-profile incidents of rape, in Iraq, and I imagine elsewhere in the world, given that the Pentagon itself estimates that 26,000 rapes occurred in the ranks in 2013. You say they did their jobs -- I say that their job descriptions didn't include raping the servicewomen alongside whom they served. The fact that they rendered service to the country, even in combat, doesn't negate the fact that they're criminals.

From wiki:

There is an ongoing problem with sexual assault in the U.S. military which has received extensive media coverage in the past several years. A 2012 Pentagon survey found that approximately 26,000 women and men were sexually assaulted. Of those, only 3,374 cases were reported. In 2013, a new pentagon report found that 5,061 troops reported cases of assault. Many people are optimistic that this 50% increase in reports is indicative of victims "growing more comfortable in the system." Of these reported, however, only 484 cases went to trial, and only 376 resulted in convictions.[1] Ninety percent of the assault victims were eventually involuntarily discharged.[2] Another investigation found that only one in five females and one in 15 males in the United States Air Force would report having been sexually assaulted by service members.[3]

Think about that: only 9.5% of the cases ever went to trial, and even worse, 90% of the victims were given involuntary discharges.

Let me repeat that: 90% of the victims were given involuntary discharges.

Such numbers indicate that in the military at least, there is a blatant disregard of the problem, and what appears to be an attempt to minimize -- or bury -- the issue.

Now, I don't think the wider society is an example of rape culture, but this is pretty damning for the military; it's evidence that there is a rape culture of sorts in the services.

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I obviously don't condone the type of bullshittery in which this specific woman was engaging, but I also don't like the idea of giving the military a free pass.

As a veteran myself, I would go so far as to say that when you don the uniform, you have donned an obligation to hold yourself to higher standards than the civilian populace.