“as relatively privileged white male” Really Russ? How many butts are you trying to kiss? Is your job in danger? Echos of Obama’s “you didn’t build this” it was really done by some slave somewhere and you stole it do to your white privilege. I just added AOPA to National Geographic subscription termination list.
The reason there aren’t more women in aviation is because women prefer to be someplace else, for whatever reason. The percentages in the airlines have stayed steady for decades. Biasing the recruitment process will not get you more women but poorer pilots. It never ceases to amaze me that the generation that was raised on Family Guy, South Park and the Simpson can be offended by anything!
My question is simply, why is this even printed here. It’s just all “eye wash” really. People feel safe enough that at Yale you can’t use the term “rule of thumb” because of some standard from 100+ years ago that nobody knows.
It’s the cool thing to write stuff like this and makes the author feel better. Good for him, her, it, they…
Problem is they say stupid stuff, write really stupid stuff to make themselves feel better.
No go get your blanket and lie down Russ. The mental exercise for you to actually think about this must have caused some real exhaustion and headaches.
‘Box Office’ LOL, I love it.
I thought it was an insult for small manhood of servants that drove the little boats for the officers they ‘served’… yes, enlisted must be done away with in the military.
Are you sure you don’t want a credit card that gives you nothing back?
Flight attendant should be flight crew… ‘attendant’ is so degrading to my Wokeness.
Police ‘officer’… they didn’t attend college and receive a commission… they are
likely crazy enlisted pukes that want to kill people after returning from war.
Just the word ‘police’ triggers my Wokeness.
Somewhere - maybe floating on an Olympian cloud or perhaps in a more mundane control center with hundreds of scifi-ish screens and displays - there is a group of entities laughing their posteriors off & saying things like “OK, I was wrong the last time, but this new test package is over the top idiotic, you’ll never get a majority of them to go for that!” and “Oh, yeah? I told you, it’s working like a charm, it just gets easier and easier. BS rejection is already down to 18% and pretty soon they’ll stop thinking on their own completely.”
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You are so correct, and I bet there already is a deputy administrator for ‘inclusion’ at an ES - 18 level.
If not, I’m going to demand one now and demand the position.
Yes, when did the thumb rule over us? I demand this be changed.
You know what’s really funny? No one gives a REASON not to change the language, other than “it’s traditional.” Who’s it going to hurt if we make our words less alienating to prospective pilots?
For all the talk about the fragility of the Left, there seems to be quite a bit of it on the Right. As ONE commenter pointed out (before being excoriated), no one died from turning “stews” into “FAs.”
Thanks Russ for writing this. It’s time.
Thank you Russ for your well reasoned reflection. Simply put, there comes a time when it is appropriate to revise texts so as to reflect reality and that is what this is about. Nothing more, nothing less. All the blathering about wasting time and money and wokeness and virtue signaling and political correctness is nothing more than male gender insecurity which is intrinsic to old guard masculinity if the preponderance of the preceding commentary is a true indication. Man up guys!
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Well put, Jerry. People like Brian Smith are too dense to understand that it’s about leftists destroying the country.
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Obviously they weren’t leftists.
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