Can those who are butt hurt over words just stop? Enough already.
Mostly seems pretty sensible, but…
When did “cockpit” become a gender-specific term? It’s no more gender-specific than “aileron.”
If the people doing the rewrite think this is a gender-specific term, perhaps they shouldn’t be editing documents written in English.
Never mind… it seems the editors know perfectly well, but we have male pilots out there who don’t, and who have been telling women aviators that they don’t belong on the flight deck because it’s a… cock-pit.
You know who you are.
To be honest I think this is of near zero importance but I did feel the term ‘airman’ was odd and archaic and probably should have been retired long ago.
With that said I’m glad all the real and important problems of life on Earth have been solved so our elected and appointed officials can focus on item like this…
Awareness, it’s a beautiful thing.
It appears that particular discussion took all of 30 minutes, according to the agenda.
How is this nonsense going to improve safety?
To be honest I think this is of near zero importance but I did feel the term ‘airman’ was odd and archaic and probably should have been retired long ago.
With that said I’m glad all the real and important problems of life on Earth have been solved so our elected and appointed officials can focus on item like this…
Unlikely that a woman with a drive and personality to be a pilot would be put off by such minutia.
The term “mankind” is a gender neutral term; the term “unmanned” also covers both genders.
It’s pretty much over Doug.
I think it will take a catastrophe such as war or recession to drive the political pendulum to the right far enough to make it in the center.
Hear hear!
Some of my best students were women. None of them could have cared less about the so called gender bias of the terminology.
This is 2021. Can’t we just be intelligent enough to know there’s a difference between etymology and the relevance of a word’s use today? For God’s sake, these terms are not being used to boast male dominance on a grand scale, they just originated at a different time and have woven their way into the fabric of aviation.
Also, how many are actually hurt by these terms? Poor poor babies! Trying to change them now for the sake of political correctness is unnecessary and a colossal waste of resources.
1That is 33 minutes longer than it should have! What a waste of time for people that are supposed to make flying safer!
Glad to see my tax dollars being spent intelligently, fixing the broken bureaucracy of the FAA, which has been failing at its most important mission very publicly lately, instead of wasting time addressing meaningless gripes about inconsequential things.
Wow! Now to form a business entity to bid on the government contract to overhaul all the FAA’s documentation… First order of business, recruit a woman CEO to maximize favorable consideration. The project will be completed a year or so late, a coupla three million$$$ over budget, and by the time oversight is applied, my “team” and I will have relocated to an extradition-free nation. Someplace nice, like Cape Verde. OK ladies, who’s in?
Reading only the story title above it was immediately clear that this comment section would be full of the usual suspects howling out their gender insecurity. And none of you disappointed. Methinks you ladies protest too much. What an entertaining hoot. You really flushed them out of the woodwork this time Russ.
Gender dysphoria is very real.
It’s funny how one can guess exactly who would comment here, and what they would say. The gender insecure snowflakes are very predictable.
Absolute hogwash. This gender crap has nothing to do with why women are in the cockpit. It’s their choice… period.