Author: Geng Zhige
According to the New York Post, the U.S. military invested US$2 million in the past two years to invite an American university to study how to better solve the increasingly prominent gender identity issues within the U.S. military by improving the recruit training system of the U.S. Marine Corps.
However, one of the improvement suggestions given by the university may make many Chinese netizens laugh out loud.
It turns out that according to the New York Post, this suggestion actually allows soldiers to no longer call their superiors "Sir" or "Ms." (Ma'am). Instead, they can directly address each other by their military rank, or use their last name + position instead.
Currently, the leadership of the US military is considering whether to adopt this suggestion. But if adopted, this will mean that the expressions such as "Yes Sir!" or "Yes Ma'am!" shouted by American soldiers we see in American movies will become history in the U.S. Marine Corps.
The University of Pittsburgh in the United States, which proposed this suggestion, claims that using this "gender-neutral" title to address one's instructors and superiors can avoid inadvertently misunderstanding each other's gender identity and offending each other.
Although this is just one of the recommendations made by the University of Pittsburgh to improve the gender identity issue in the recruit training system of the US Marine Corps, because the US military has invested a total of up to 2 million US dollars in this project, this matter quickly caused a lot of complaints on American social networks, calling it "nonsense."
Someone else complained: At least after being caught by the enemy, our soldiers know how to use the "correct title" to call each other.
As a Chinese upright brother, this suggestion to the US military even makes me wonder if it is copying the practices of our People's Liberation Army. After all, when our soldiers address their superiors, they either address them by their military rank, or by their last name + position.
