On 2014-01-20 01:16, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
Reg. Hultgreen, anacdotal. Reg. Cari, no idea what you're talking about.
In an effort to manufacture a poster girl, Hultgreen was required to attempt to land on an aircraft carrier, and in due course, killed herself, demonstrating why every naval pilot is male. You can affirmative action women to all sorts of jobs, and furtively have a white male do the actual job, but the reason all naval pilots are males is that when you affirmative action someone to naval pilot and expect them to land on a carrier, they die. There is room in an office for males to do the actual work, but there is no room in a warplane for a second pilot to do the actual piloting. You can put girls in the army, and all that immediately happens is that the march slows down, but you cannot put girls in the naval airforce, and make the carriers bigger and the planes slower. In a plane built for male abilities, landing on a ship built for male abilities, they have to fly like males. And, of course, they cannot. They tested her, in testing she repeated made errors that would have killed her. She was the best female pilot available, so they had her do real landings regardless, so that they could have a poster girl. Amelia Earhart was initially given a ticker tape parade and a meeting with the president for being flown across the Atlantic like a sack of potatoes by a male pilot, but the cognitive dissonance being too great, such a poster girl attracting ridicule, they eventually had Amelia Earhart and Kara Hultgreen attempt to perform difficult piloting tasks for real, killing them. In due course we will have female naval pilots with same uniforms as male pilots. The unisex uniforms will be made girly. The traditions will be made girlie or abolished. Male camraderie will be forbidden. References to nuts and bolts will be forbidden as excessively sexist. But the female naval pilots will not actually be required to fly carrier planes.