Readings...

I got this book because I could learn more about a time in my life where I was not an active participant but rather an observer of parts of certain process...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Virginia
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=VWIL

This may have happened a bit later...

"It seemed that the women at USMMA, wanting no favoritism in their bathroom facilities, had dismantled their private shower stalls, attacking them with sledge hammers in the middle of the night. When VMI's team innocently asked these women whether they required privacy when menstruating, the response was blunt. As Colonel Leroy Hammond explained: 'They literally laughed in our faces.'"

Page 115, Breaking Out

Lack of toilet stall doors, for example, is included in a description of no-privacy military training. We find out much later, however, that male cadets have always pulled the doors off themselves, for no apparent reason; military philosophy leaves off where self-governing cadets come in."

~ http://mycitypaper.com/articles/082400/ae.books.quick.shtml

I could believe it.
I can also remember some of this sentiment:

"I don't understand how you can sit there and tell America it never once dawned on you that you wouldn't be carrying the weight of what's going to come for every other woman after you."

That's the military wife on the Oprah show, talking to Shannon Faulkner.

"The most overt hostility came from other women, especially alumni’s wives and cadets’ girlfriends."

~ http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20121020/PC12/121029996

The ones I heard who said they would never be like her...of course they would never be like her. They weren't her. They left to attend classes and came back. They were in a group.

They weren't one lone female against an entire institution.

"As became clear in the testimony at Faulkner's court hearing, 'female' was the ultimate insult among the cadets. Rone Vergnolle, an alumnus and the top-ranking scholar in the class of 1991, was asked, 'Approximately how many times over your four years did you hear the word �woman� used as a way of tearing a cadet down?' He answered:

I could not estimate a number. It occurred so frequently. It was an everyday part, every-minute, every-hour part of life there. And if the term "woman" was used, then that would be a welcome relief, compared to the large majority of the terms you were called, [which] were gutter slang for women. And it goes on all the way down to the genitalia, and that's where the criticism was. And the point was, if you are not doing what you are supposed to do, you are not a man, you are a woman, and that is the way you are disciplined in the barracks every day, every hour."'According to the Citadel creed of the cadet,' former student Michael Lake told me, 'women have no rights. They are objects. They are things that you can do with whatever you want to.' The only way to maintain such a worldview, of course, was to keep the campus free of women who might challenge it."

~ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/vaw00/Faulkner.html