Packing party benefits women soldiers

Story here. Men apparently don't need magazines or toiletries like women do. Anyway, would we ever see an article entitled "Packing party benefits male soldiers"? Not anytime soon. Excerpt:

'One hundred care packages are on their way to be received by 100 black female soldiers stationed at sea and in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

The care packages were filled from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday in the C.C. Baird Center at Galilee Baptist Church then transported to be processed for shipping as part of the 16th Sister Soldier Packing Party. Hosted by Sistahs BookClubbing, the event was in support of the Sister Soldiers Project, which has donated more than 1,200 care packages since 2006 to black women deployed in such places as Iraq and Afghanistan.

"The project was born out of the desire to help the women serving our country and provide them with personal care products so important to their quality of life that are not available to them," founder Myraline Whitaker, of Arroyo Grande, Calif., said. "They never complain in all their letters. They tell how hot it is and that the water is so hard. We try to give them what they ask for, and the needs change by season."'

Oh yeah, another thing: *black* female soldiers only are getting these packages. So it's OK now to proclaim proudly that a group is packing goodies for black women ONLY while everyone else serving overseas gets lumped into a generic "the other soldiers" category (not even mentioned in the article of course) and then promptly ignored. See where this kind of nutsery leads to? Maybe there'll be an over-30 Asian male soldiers-only packaging party soon or perhaps a packaging party for soldiers-from-the-northeast-side-of-Manhattan-who-are-green-eyed-and-between-5-10-and-6-0-and-weigh-no-more-than-200-lbs-and-are-gay-and-male-and-of-Puerto-Rican-decent. Ugh.