You are conflating awkwardness with poor communication skills

You believe that social skills aren’t dependent on communication skills?

It really doesn’t matter that is fantasy, I think that makes it a more powerful as a teaching tool not less.

The claim was that it taught social skills. I claim it will only do that if the teachers have excellent social skills. Not all teachers are good, or are good at teaching social skills.

Also eeew no, almost all the managers I have had that were in the military (ESPECIALLY men) have trash leadership skills

You’re conflating social skills, and military experience, with management ;-)

I didn’t say the military made people good managers. Management is a very specific skill set, and you don’t have to be socially fluent to be a good manager, although it helps. And being a good communicator, and having good social skills absolutely does not automatically make you a good leader!

You seem to be reading things in my comments that I’m not saying. For example, that I had a bad time gaming; or that the military makes good leaders. We have a communications gap here; how can I be more clear?

I’m not sure how to read your last paragraph; it seems to be an expression of frustration with men, in general, and I don’t know what kind of response I can provide. You haven’t had positive experiences with ex-military (usually male) managers? How many of those have you had?