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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Would she prefer “aviatrix”?
I wouldn't pick nits over it. I'm a network technician, and when things go to hell and I get them under control I'm always treated like a hero myself. It's people's way of saying they're grateful.
In "hero" terms, the person I usually think of is that Leonard Skutnik, a passerby who jumped into a freezing river to save a woman following the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 ... just an ordinary Joe who transcended fear and the natural concern for his own safety to do something that he believed to be right.
Aviator and Aviatrix. Words mean things. Same as steward and stewardess. Keeps things from getting confused in the conversation.
I’m offended that this female journalist is acting so petty—she’s giving female journalists an even worse reputation
I’m offended that this female journalist is acting so petty—she’s giving female journalists an even worse reputation
It sounds like she did her job just like she was supposed to. Good job.
I think they made too much of Sully but still landing one in the river is not quite the same as landing on one engine at the airport.
True.
Pilot. Flight attendant. Problem solved.
Who says our mission in life is to keep from offending her?
Aviatrix
But desperate to have a 1st “Woman” President isn’t duplicitous?
Sully and John Glenn turned into leftist whores.
I at least met Chesley Sullenberger before he “came out”.
I like Aviatrix. Sounds a bit kinky. Stewardess’ hate being called that today. They insist it is “flight attendant”. (Mom worked for Delta way back when)
That's why they called out that the hero pilot on this flight was a woman, rather than let it go by unnoticed.
-PJ
How about a “pilotte?”
Because this is all about YOU, Beverly.
Nobody in girbilism has enough grasp of the English language in this century to spell or pronounce “Aviatrix.”
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