Timothy Birdnow

Time to bring back the old women driver jokes...

Fox News identifies helicopter pilots involved in crash… female pilot in command, male crew chief…

Back in the 90's my brother taught college level history courses on Navy ships. There was a big push to get female aviators into the service. They changed the rules for these chicks. They called "downs" on them less (a down is an observational demerit for a bad landing) and gave the gals extra downs before they were benched. There was an incident that was a major news story where this allegedly ace woman pilot crashed. Brian got the story from people directly involved; she was crying because she was having trouble and eventually turned off her radio so the controllers couldn't hear her freakout. In other words she may have had the technical skill but lacked the emotional control needed for this top gun slot.

I get it. I always thought I'd have made a great pilot too but would have washed out as a fighter pilot because I wouldn't be able to keep my head under the pressure, I don't believe. But that's why I would never have tried for that in the first place. As Clint Eastwood said "a man has to know his limitations". Sadly women and minorities don't and are encouraged not to under the theory that there is a white male patriarchy and So many are pushed into roles for which they just aren't suited. I strongly suspect this chopper pilot is one example.

There were plenty of other examples of this. My brother told me women techs were assigned grunts to carry their toolboxes (which weigh a hundred pounds) since they obviously were not strong enough. So it takes two people to do the job one MAN can do. And one of them is a man.

You don't win wars that way. It becomes a hobby activity, like Junior ROTC.

And the exercise regimen had a lower bar. Women didn't have to do chinups. They had to do fewer situps and other such exercises.

Just because somebody wants to do something doesn't automatically mean they have a right to do it. I'll never play in the NBA. I'd make a lousy politician (can't remember names and faces and don't like to gladhand). I would bomb as a mathematician. I have come to terms with that; it's who and what I am and God has blessed me with different talents. I'll think of one of them by tomorrow, maybe.

The point is women can have a place in the military, but we've got to be realistic. If they are going for a given job they MUST be equally qualified. This notion of women for women's sake, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, is batcrap crazy. We don't have to balance testosterone with estrogen, nor light skin pigmentation with heavier. It MUST be based on job performance. Nothing else should matter.(Well, almost nothing; an 85 year old man may be competent until you put them in a certain situation. Age can be taken into account because abilities decline and that is often invisible to us. I wouldn't feel very confident having an old guy show up to rescue me from a burning building...)

Anyway, while the old "women driver" stereotype is not true of everyone, it became a stereotype precisely because there was a KERNAL of truth in it at one time. Why? Probably because women had less experience doing it when they started driving. But men are recognized as better at mechanical things than women and always have been. Men and women are different. The Left refuses to recognize any distinction, except the idea of "male toxicity". All one need do is look at children and how they play. The Left's answer is to make children play just the same, and they think it's purely a learned behavior. But it's not; it's natural.

These sorts of thing will continue as long as we continue to place a wrong-headed and unnatural ideology above human life.

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