The Australian Defence Force is investigating military personnel’s connections to offensive sexist and anti-Muslim Facebook pages and posts.
Townsville-based soldiers are apparently connected to pages with anti-women titles like “Big Tits Don’t Count If Ya Fat” containing posts referring to local women as “sluts”, Fairfax Media reports.
The offensive Facebook posts have come to attention just days after the Chief of Army issued a stern warning telling sexist troops “to get out” and “find something else to do”.
The warning came as details emerged over an explicit email scandal with at least 17 officers being investigated over their involvement.
A Defence spokewoman told Fairfax two Facebook pages that made derogatory references to women were being investigated and had been removed, but said the matter was unrelated to the email scandal that recently rocked the ADF.
“Preliminary inquiries suggest that a small number of serving Australian Defence Force members have associated themselves with the two Facebook pages,” she said.
“Defence has initiated an investigation to determine if any ADF members are associated with the offensive comments posted to the pages. This investigation is ongoing.”
