[jsanders2001]

If she made the grade why not? I see no problem with women being fighter pilots at all.

[MarineBrat]

POW females are great fun! /s

[aquila48]

” If she made the grade why not?”

That’s what feminism should be about - not lowering standards or worse dual standards.

[henkster]

A common knock against women as either fighter pilots or race car drivers is that they lack the sense of spatial and movement awareness that men have. Men have a better innate sense of their own speed and vector, and can track another object and instinctively track it’s speed and vector, and instantly compute that track of the two objects and predict where they will be. Men also can instantly compute changes in future course based on changes in the speed or vector of either themselves or the other object. These are really good skills to have if you are racing an F1 car or flying an F16.

These were necessary skills genetically imprinted back in the old hunter-gatherer days, and honed in centuries of physical competition like sports and combat. Women historically did not have to hone these skills, and thus generally don’t have them to the same degree.

[Rashputin]

That's it, “If she made the grade . . .” and you know the UAE absolutely didn't change the standard a bit for a woman. This is a real slap in the face to the Iz Lame Fundies and I'm wondering how high on the ISIS list of targets the UAE just made themselves.

[fortheDeclaration]

Until they get shot down and captured.