Crazy Pilots

I've worked with women who were brilliant under pressure and the men who were hopeless and vice a versa. it's about the person not their sex, simple as that.
 
I remember some drunk guy piping up 'Bet the clutch is ****ed on this!' when he saw we had a female pilot... :p

Cabin crew gave him a stern talking to. Think I was 18 at the time and found it hilarious (and still do) but there's a time and place.
 
terley said:
Would you say it is a 50/50 split?.. I doubt it.
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I don't know because I don't have a large enough sample size or a representative sample or a large enough variety of situations.

I don't care because it's irrelevant. In all cases, a person is a person. That one specific person. So averages for several billion people are irrelevant in every case. So even if there is an average difference it's still irrelevant in every case. Every single time for everything apart from the biology that defines a person's sex.

It could be argued that some care is justified to address the issue of whether or not there's any socialised component to any difference (which would be unfair), but I think my approach already addresses that. If everyone is treated as a person (rather than a group identity) any socialised component to anything that's based on that group identity will fade away.
 
How on earth did she even manage to get near the plane without her uniform? And this is United Airlines? Seriously?

Try turning up to McDonalds without your uniform and start having a mental breakdown in front of your customers, let alone United ****ing Airlines lmao.

Also this has got nothing to do with her being a woman. Idk maybe it does I don't have enough information to ascertain whether the onset was the result of exclusively female bodily processes.
 
I have a fishing mate who is a pilot and the job seems to attract a certain sort. I certainly would not worry about your pilot having confidence issues regardless of gender. The nature of some professions tempt certain personalities more. Not true every time but certainly true enough to draw a stereotype of confidence with people who are pilots/surgeons, at least from my experience. Physics certainly has its share of closed of recluses or social awkward try-hards.
 
I'd rather have a female pilot I think, if it was a binary choice. I don't care but if pushed, I'd go for the more tolerant, probably better educated, more thoughtful female than some drunk God-complex asshat with one hand on the controls and one hand on his tiny, troubling junk.
 
h4rm0ny said:
This is a serious question??? No. I don't.

People cover a huge range of ability, responsibility, integrity. The world is filled with everyone from idiots to geniuses, people who would give their life to save someone they barely knew and people who would run out on their own families. I'm pretty sure the dividing line between whether someone should be flying a plane or not isn't which sex they happen to be.
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Agreed! I also extend this to ethnicity whenever my parents start talking about the how great the awful Daily Mail is.
 
Don't care about the gender of the pilot. But she was clearly not in the right place mentally and I'd probably have got off the plane too. I hope she gets the right support and treatment.
 
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