Review of Sounds Like Hate - Strong Minds Take Work

Strong Minds Take Work

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“I feel compassion toward Samantha, the guest of “Getting Out.” It was difficult to hear about how she recruited women into an environment with a high likelihood that they would experience multiple types of abuses, and more certainly, a degraded status. I am a female OIF/OEF veteran, who during my enlistment, experienced and witnessed chronic sexual assault and harassment. In just one enlistment of 4 years, there were 2 suicides, 1 attempted suicide, 3 murders, 1 rape (that was reported), and multiple people who self-injured by cutting and burning. A couple of years after I got out, I became a counter-recruiter in high schools, and volunteered my time by talking to students about the realities of military life, as well as their rights, and lack of rights. I never told anyone not to join - that is their choice. The point of me saying this is: 1.) it was hard for me to hear that a person, at one point, willingly led women into an environment which was dark in similar ways to the military, and 2.) that through Samantha’s own personal choices, can walk the road of reckoning and inner peace. For me, that was being the person I wish I could have encountered prior to enlistment. For Samantha, she will make her own decision about that, and it doesn’t have to be anything like what I did. It takes a strong mind to navigate the mental obstacle course that she has been through, and sounds like she is still going through. Reckoning with the past does not mean self-degradation. It does mean balance. I hope that Samantha feels compassion for herself as she continues with her life, and am grateful that she has chosen to see the brilliance and ugliness of life outside of a mindset of dichotomy. I appreciate her willingness to share a difficult story. I wish her and her family a good and meaningful life.”

Gazaleh..... via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/16/20

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