[Serious] What in the actual fuck is happening with the Canadian military?

Nothing that doesn't happen anywhere else.

I've heard of rapes and sexual sexual harassment happening in the CAF (no organization is completely free of this) but as far as I can tell, most of these high profile cases are just instances of a senior officer having relationships with subordinates.

What people need to understand is that in the military, rank is social status. And everywhere in the world, women tend to go after men of the highest stations they can attain. Women are sexually attracted to high-status men. What that means in the military is the higher your rank, the more women in the ranks throw themselves at you. Just like anywhere else in the world.

What's changing is that now with the whole #metoo movement, men of high rank sleeping with lower ranking women is being viewed as a Harvey Weinstein scenario where before it wasn't.

I recall a few years back a General got in shit for being caught sleeping with one of his subordinates I think in Afghanistan. I remember the public sentiment at the time was "What's wrong with finding love in such a horrible place? Leave them alone!" I even got downvoted heavily in the r/Canada thread on the story for trying to explain the toxic effect of rank-disparate fraternization on the chain of command. I'm going to try and find that thread but I won't hold my breath.

That was before #metoo. Now identical scenarios are viewed as #metoo incidents. That's what's changed. There isn't some spike in sexual assault happening in the CAF. People are suddenly now being retroactively raked over the coals for sleeping with women they outranked at the time.

[Serious] What in the actual fuck is happening with the Canadian military?

Nothing that doesn't happen anywhere else.

I've heard of rapes and sexual sexual harassment happening in the CAF (no organization if completely free of this) but as far as I can tell, most of these high profile cases are just instances of a senior officer having relationships with subordinates.

What people need to understand is that in the military, rank is social status. And everywhere in the world, women tend to go after men of the highest stations they can attain. Women are sexually attracted to high-status men. What that means in the military is the higher your rank, the more women in the ranks throw themselves at you. Just like anywhere else in the world.

What's changing is that now with the whole #metoo movement, men of high rank sleeping with lower ranking women is being viewed as a Harvey Weinstein scenario where before it wasn't.

I recall a few years back a General got in shit for being caught sleeping with one of his subordinates I think in Afghanistan. I remember the public sentiment at the time was "What's wrong with finding love in such a horrible place? Leave them alone!" I even got downvoted heavily in the r/Canada thread on the story for trying to explain the toxic effect of rank-disparate fraternization on the chain of command. I'm going to try and find that thread but I won't hold my breath.

That was before #metoo. Now identical scenarios are viewed as #metoo incidents. That's what's changed. There isn't some spike in sexual assault happening in the CAF. People are suddenly now being retroactively raked over the coals for sleeping with women they outranked at the time.