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Craig Prouse wrote:

I understand that pink is actually a better color for night camouflage, but
there are problems with getting macho military pilots to fly pink airplanes,
so we make do with black paint instead.

When I was in college, the campus feminist group had a print ad with a
fighter jet on their wall of shame, pointing out the obvious phallic
symbol. I wonder if painting it pink would have pleased them? Kind of
tough on the male ego, though--except maybe worse on the guy in the
other plane who just got shot down by the "girl" fighter...