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Old October 27th 04, 02:44 PM
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Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
My point is that many women are now being accepted through lower
entrance standards


I suspect it's the other way around. There are fewer women pilots,
ergo they are selected from a more adept pool of possible applicants.


This logic makes no sense.

And to respond to your other post,

you wrote:

Well, to be fair, that's surely because the woman pilot is still a
rarity. All rarities get mentioned in newspaper stories until it
becomes too politcially incorrect to do so. When I was a young
journalist, it was standard practice to mention the race of a criminal
if he were black. Now of course that is not done.


Indeed, I worked on a newspaper in the process of change. We were
forbidden to mention the race of a defendant in a court martial, so we
vied with each other to come up with the most original physical
description, to see what we could get past the editor.


But in the news reports I've happened to read on these crashes, they
simply mention the names of the pilots, which, in most cases, reveals
gender.

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