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Earl Kelly, Academy Justice Tilted Toward Women: Double Standard in Mid Sex Cases During Rempt Era, The (Annapolis) Capital, 17 May 2009.
This issue is not limited to the Naval Academy. This is a natural all too predictable outcome of the pendulum shift.
But the pendulum can swing too far, a fact not lost on female mids.
"I’ve noticed a backlash for guys now," an unnamed female midshipman said in a recent Defense Department report on sexual abuse at the service academies. "It’s too easy for a girl to say something (happened) that didn’t happen. Girls are totally protected. It’s almost like now the guys are the ones who have to be really cautious."