So you've joined Eric's stereotyping party, eh? That will give you less integrity to whine about the practice when it is aimed at groups you are more favorable towards...also, nice try at twisting why I typed, but Eric's (and now your) stereotyping is what is pathetically typical...

Look, guys, the bottom line here such stereotypes exist because they are so often and so blatantly true... as in this case. I dind't create the stereotype. I merely observe it.

Let us all remember this statement the next time anyone decides to unfairly paint all conservatives as narrow-minded neanderthals who are scared of every dark-skinned person who crosses their path and says, "Boo!"...

What an arrogant personality.

Without stereotypes, bits view of the world would simply cease to exist...

heh. So, you're not trying to stereotype ME?

Look, guys, the bottom line here such stereotypes exist because they are so often and so blatantly true... as in this case. I dind't create the stereotype. I merely observe it. If you can't handle that, maybe a word or two with Boxer to get her to stop being such a stereotypical bitch would be in order?

If I were the General, I would, in the future, refrain from calling anyone Senator, or sir, or ma'am. The worthless should all remain "title-less."

Boxer certainly has worked hard to gain the title Senator, however another title comes to mind. A name she richly deserves in my estimation. She earned the title easily and long ago. Starts with a B. and ends with a H. I'll bet money the General thinks so.

Yes, all high-achieving women are bitches. We get it, Zelsdorf - she should be back in the kitchen.

Look, she was being a bit obnoxious whether she was a man or woman. There's no need to call people names.

Look, the military has never been popular with the left anyway

Yea bit, and no one has noticed your attacks on serving members of the military and vets when you don't approve of their politics or sexual orientation...

Partial transcript has the General addressing a male Senator as "sir."

“Do me a favor,” she said. “Could say senator instead of Ma’am It’s just a thing, I worked so hard to get that title, so I’d appreciate it, thank you.”

I'm certain the General would have addressed Senator Boxer in whatever manner she requested now or in the future, had she asked him respectfully in private. He will undoubtedly do so now as well. Making her request so publicly in this manner was political theater, nothing more and nothing less. You can decide who the intended audience was.

Oh, and as for working hard, so what? I remember one of my early performance reviews where I mentioned working hard and my supervisor said rather blankly that was nice, but that wasn't what I would be graded or paid for. I would be judged and paid based upon the results I achieved, nothing more and nothing less. Or to draw another analogy, if they would have allowed me to do so, I would have worked as hard as any major league baseball player for a spot on a roster. Heck, I'd have even given the proverbial left testicle for the privilege. But the fact of the matter is, no matter how hard I worked for it, it wouldn't have mattered. I was never going to be a professional baseball player.

I respect Senator Boxer's office. Barbara Boxer, not so much.

Sorry, but while Colonel Jessop, er, Senator Boxer is, in fact, entitled to be addressed as Senator, no disrespect was given or intended by the General. She was being deliberately petty and hers was an act of forced subordination.

No way that any of those down-pressin' military types are going to patronize Senator Barbara Boxer and get away with it. She earned it, dammit!

I guess I would have to hear the inflection in her voice when she said it.

The video is linked directly above the text. It struck me as pretty snippy.