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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“Sometimes I don’t get women.”
Only when I flip out my credit cards and my Corvette that I truly understand them..
The media probably don’t know what the W.A.S.s were in WWII or even why the Luftwaffe feared the Rusian Night HEXs so much.
Found out this week that it’s now STEAM (+Art).
New logos, conventions, gear, etc.
No. If that plane had not been landed in the river in the fashion it was and with the skill and finesse involved, it would have broken up and the fusilage breached. People would have died.
Getting offended for the sake of getting offended for fun and profit. It may give one a temporary sense of moral superiority and a short term high. Kinda like emotional meth. But once that high wears off the need for the next fix becomes progressively more insatiable. What a pathetic self destructive way to go through life.
ML/NJ
The whole point of STEM was that it was the hard sciences. Why undermine that by throwing Art into it?
-PJ
This gal was the co not the captain. We don’t even know his name
journalists.
I don’t think it’s offensive at all - statistically, a military or commercial pilot is more likely to be male, so mentioning it’s a female pilot doesn’t seem that outrageous.
Tammie Jo is/was the captain. The first officer is named Darren Ellisor.
https://twitter.com/SouthwestAir?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Perhaps since STEM was for girls, they had to add something for the “Trans” (Fake) Girls.
Yeah, my thoughts too. I’m glad she was able to land safely but they train for this, it isn’t a miracle. For the pilot it was probably a normal landing, I don’t believe there was much damage to anything else.
Wow she is offended by her own gender!
Such irony!
“Aviate, navigate then communicate” is what I learned.
Tammy is a good pilot. I recall when she came though the flight simulators and weapons trainers at NAS Lemoore training squadron VFA125. Easy to remember because she was among the first women through the program. While a few pilots had the same attitude described in the comments, most treated her as an equal. Working for Hughes Aircraft and operating the simulators at the time we had a unique perspective. Pilots would say things in front of us they would not normally say in front of other officers. We overheard a lot of crosstalk among pilots. Most acknowledged her ability and discredited quickly anyone that made derogatory statements.
3 or 4 years later during the same time frame the Tailhook scandal broke when another female Naval aviator ( Helicopter Pilot) who was an Admirals aid and mistreated in Las Vegas became news and caused the Navy much embarrassment when the story broke. It cost the career of the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations. The story only broke because the Admirals aid was one of the women mistreated in the hotel and it was not going to be white washed away this time. It was a sea change moment. When the aid was visiting NAS Lemoore and allowed to fly the F/A-18 simulator I recall after she left the simulator one day the next group of pilots identified who she was. While one pilot made fun of her I watched him get a dressing down by several other pilots pointing out you salute the bars and not the person. All pilots are the same and you judge a pilot by their skill and not their haircut. Oddly women are actually situated to tolerate G forces an little better than men. Short stalky muscular people tend to have blood flow to the brain better under G loading. Height is a negative factor and weight a positive factor. A highly fit women statistically has a slightly higher G tolerance than a man of the same weight but much taller.
Whatever.
I always find that dopey. We all know what a "flight attendant" is, it's a stewardess that gets the vapors if we call her a stewardess. That's the only difference. So what's the point?
There’s a difference between using words as descriptions and using them derogatorily. “The black man sat next to the white guitarist as the female vocalist excited the crowd.” There is nothing racist or sexist about using descriptive terms.
If you swear, then that’s derogatory and racist or sexist. People are way too sensitive today. I’m not sure what the point is of being so super-sensitive.
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