{"id":33440,"date":"2023-06-01T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=33440"},"modified":"2023-06-01T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T18:54:46","slug":"manly-man-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=33440","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: Manly Men, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN, today: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/31\/politics\/pentagon-cancels-drag-show-nellis-air-force-base-pride\/index.html\">Pentagon Cancels Drag Show at Air Force Base as Pride Month Begins<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screenshot 2023-06-01 at 6.42.50 AM\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/52943272808\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52943272808_68fa5c1373_z.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2023-06-01 at 6.42.50 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, boy, here we go again. This&#8217;ll fuel another round of homophobic attacks on wokeism from the deplorables, of course, but it&#8217;s the reaction of the military aviation community I&#8217;m thinking about, the fighter community in particular. It&#8217;s gonna be the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3284\">67th TFS Fighting Cocksuckers<\/a><\/strong> all over again, this time with every Air Force fighter pilot and WSO as the butt of snide remarks and innuendo. What&#8217;ll they start calling Fighter Weapons School at Nellis? God, I hate to think. Or Red Flag exercises, hosted at Nellis? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaintfoundation.org\/community\/hanky-code-bob-damrons-address-book\">Red Hanky Flag in the Right Pocket<\/a><\/strong>? If military installations have gender and sexuality, Nelllis AFB is as cis as they come. Was, now, I guess. Doubtfire Field, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>You probably think I&#8217;m being immature. Have you met any fighter pilots lately?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;ve done drag. As an Air Force fighter pilot, no less. You could even say I&#8217;ve been the star of a drag show. Which would make me a Drag Queen. I performed at a squadron party at Soesterberg Air Base in 1980, playing the role of our commander&#8217;s secretary Robin, wearing a dress and a wig, with two balloons stuffed down my blouse. To thunderous applause, I might add, from an audience of manly men fighter jocks. Never mind the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bah3.org\/2008\/02\/history-of-the-red-dress-run\/\">Hash House Harrier Red Dress Runs<\/a><\/strong> I participated in while still on active duty. Somehow my reputation survived, so maybe there&#8217;s hope for the Air Force fighter community and Nellis AFB.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?page_id=14450\"><strong> back to the Air-Minded Index<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably think I&#8217;m being immature. Have you met any fighter pilots lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,7,250,10,3,4,64,14,2],"tags":[4296,4294,4295],"class_list":["post-33440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-culture","category-culture-wars","category-current-events","category-flying","category-hash-house-harriers","category-history","category-military","category-personal","tag-dragshows","tag-happypridemonth","tag-howfarwevecome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33440"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33453,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33440\/revisions\/33453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}