{"id":30453,"date":"2014-12-09T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30453"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:53:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:53:39","slug":"aviano-starts-gender-specific-spouse-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/aviano-starts-gender-specific-spouse-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviano Starts Gender-Specific Spouse Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While &#8220;spouse groups&#8221; in the Air Force are technically gender-neutral, the fact remains they are often perceived as\u00a0re-labeled &#8220;wives groups.&#8221; They are made up almost exclusively of women who are married to male military members. That leaves male spouses as a potentially underserved minority.<\/p>\n<p>A male spouse at Aviano <a href=\"Aviano Starts Gender-Specific Spouse Group\">experienced the results<\/a> of that long &#8220;history&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spouses are often assumed to be women and at a commander&#8217;s convention with his wife, Lt. Col. Rosie Duarte, the 31st Force Support Squadron commander, there was no exception. When spouses received their gift at the end of the event, [John] Duarte got what every spouse did &#8212; a broach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Duarte decided to found a\u00a0new group &#8212; which is explicitly male. He <!--more-->called it &#8220;Aviano&#8217;s Integral Men,&#8221; or AIM, and their aim is to do guy stuff:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To encourage male participation, AIM held their first event at the La Bella Vista Club, where attendees watched college football and had a cookout&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some events Duarte hopes to hold in the future are tailgating at a soccer match, driving Ferraris at the test track, more college football Saturdays and cookouts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonder how long before someone accuses them of advancing gender stereotypes&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While &#8220;spouse groups&#8221; in the Air Force are technically gender-neutral, the fact remains they are often perceived as\u00a0re-labeled &#8220;wives groups.&#8221; They are made up almost exclusively of women who are married to male military members. That leaves male spouses as a potentially underserved minority. A male spouse at Aviano experienced the results of that long &#8220;history&#8221;: Spouses are often assumed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,4386,4970,5285,4969,2,4968,1804],"class_list":["post-30453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aviano","tag-avianos-integral-men","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-john-duarte","tag-military","tag-rosie-duarte","tag-spouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}