Millie Limbaugh
Posted on 04/19/2018 12:55:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: There’s an op-ed in the Washington Post today. It’s by Beverly Weintraub. And the headline: “‘Sully’ Was Just a Hero. Why Label the Southwest Captain a ‘Female Pilot’?” Beverly Weintraub — by the way, this is cool. She’s a Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the New York Daily News editorial board. She’s a member of the Ninety-Nines. Do you know what that is? You probably don’t. It’s an international organization of women pilots.
Millie Limbaugh
And she’s on the board of directors of the Air Race Classic. My mom was a Ninety-Nine. (interruption) Yeah, my mom was a pilot. We had an old Cessna 182 Skylane for a few years when I was growing up, and my mom learned to fly the thing — and she was good. And, you know, my dad — in addition to being a lawyer — was heavily involved in aviation. He loved it. And the Ninety-Nines do this every year. I don’t know if they still do. But they did a national race of women pilots racing Left Coast to Right Coast.
And they would stop — all of them stop — at various airports across the country, and Cape Girardeau with a little… (chuckles) Well, I think we had the new runway. Anyway, we had a 3,000-foot runway and here they come. These are single-engine, maybe twin-engine, but they’re not jets. And they’re women pilots. Maybe their husbands are with them, maybe a female copilot or whatever, and they’d fly in. Every year we’d go out there and meet ’em and various members of the town would meet ’em.
We’d take ’em all to dinner the night they spent overnight and then take ’em back to the airport the next day and wave at ’em as they took off on the next leg of the race. The Ninety-Nines! I haven’t heard of the Ninety-Nines since… It’s been 25 years since anybody talked about the Ninety-Nines. Beverly Weintraub is a Ninety-Nine. So I just had to point that out. Anyway, she’s upset that the… By the way, we didn’t refer here to the pilot of the Southwest jet as a woman.
I think I referred to her yesterday as “a bad ass pilot.” But Beverly Weintraub is upset… Captain Sully, the guy that landed the U.S. Airways jet right there in the Hudson River? Nobody called him “male pilot.” They just called him a “pilot.” Why do we call this babe “female pilot”? Why do we have on to put “female” in front of it? Well, you can take a stab at answering that yourself. What do you think the reason is, Mr. Snerdley? Do you think sexism is the reason why “female” — and, by the way, it’s the Drive-By Media that did it.
It’s not… She not lashing out at any particular group. It was throughout the media that the “woman pilot” was referred to just like that: A “woman” pilot or “female” pilot. I think it has to do with the numbers. There aren’t nearly as many female airline pilots today as there are male, and the number of female pilots who successfully navigate problems in the air and safely land a plane that’s under distress, it’s not very many. So it’s unique.
But I don’t think anybody means anything by it, do you? I don’t think anybody was… Nobody was cutting her down. Nobody was certainly not affording her respect. I think the fact that she was identified as “a female pilot” actually was intended as a… I don’t want to say “compliment,” but I think it’s pretty close to that. It certainly wasn’t to impugn, and I don’t think it was to belittle. But it is a sign of the sensitivity that is out there.
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Veteran. US Navy.
That is the story.
Not the pilot’s plumbing.
The name implies gender. One airline who had a female deck crew announced over the PA that this flight is an "un-maned" flight which brought on some concern by passengers.
Maybe she would prefer “pilotess”. Sounds a bit dated, just sayin’...
Somebody, somewhere, is always offended by something.
Who gives a sh#t what this offends this freaking female journalist. There’s no natural right to not be offended. DUH!
I agree.
The USAF prime rule for any emergency was:
“Maintain aircraft control
Analyze the situation and take proper action.
Land as soon as conditions permit.”
I am sure the Navy’s direction was essentially the same.
That pilot did what she was trained to do.
He or she had to in order to get the wings.
You said it.
Sometimes I don’t get women. This pilot is a hero. She broke ground with her military career and took it to a commercial career where she possibly saved many lives. To point out that she’s a woman only gives young women and girls growing up someone to emulate and model themselves after. Pointing out her gender recognizes her feats and firsts and memorializes it.
Frankly, my dear, nobody gives a damn.
The endless self-righteousness of these prigs compares most unfavorably to anyone, anywhere, who has to execute correctly under stress.
ML/NJ
Aviatrix.
AMEN! These people who are constantly offended are very offensive to me.
True Fact.
A male pilot flies the plane from the cockpit. But not a female pilot. No sir.
She flies from the box office.
(Ba doom shish!)
If they hadn’t identified her as female, the grievance mongers would have complained that they were trying to avoid giving a woman her due.
Sir I’m sure you know.
Whenever women think we’re about to “get them”. They change the subject.
Sheesh.
There's the answer.
Is “male nurse” still ok?
Why do I believe the leftist freaks would STILL be reporting on our “female president” if the Fraud’s Felons had been successful?
Beverly sounds like the kind of person who has spent her whole life whining about everything (”The Gulfstream rep didn’t give me a brochure!!!”). Tammie Jo sounds like the kind of person who just gets on with life and directs her mental and emotional energy toward achieving her goals, and doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about any naysayers.
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