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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:07:16 GMT, "C Kingsbury"
wrote: A female friend of mine commented on it thusly: "So what they're saying is women are more likely to be incompetent, while men are just plain stupid." Now that's funny! z |
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"Malcolm Teas" wrote in message om... (NoPoliticsHere) wrote in message . com... snip Besides, "ladies in the cockpit"? Have you been asleep since 1960? Next thing I know you'll be talking about "lady doctors" or "lady lawyers" too. WHAT?!?!?!?!?! Next thing that you tell me, Ronald Reagan, the actor, would have been president! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.782 / Virus Database: 528 - Release Date: 10/23/2004 |
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Delta Airlines had a couple of female pilots sitting at home getting
full pay - one of which I flew with personally. They were fired for incompetence. But when they threatened to sue for sexual discrimination, Delta opted to just pay them rather that go through the negative publicity. And that's a fact Jack! |
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And you wonder why women see a glass ceiling. It's golddiggers like these
and Andrea Mackris (Bill O'Reilly's accuser) that cause people like me to avoid hiring women like the plague. "Schlomo Lipchitz" wrote in message ... Delta Airlines had a couple of female pilots sitting at home getting full pay - one of which I flew with personally. They were fired for incompetence. But when they threatened to sue for sexual discrimination, Delta opted to just pay them rather that go through the negative publicity. And that's a fact Jack! |
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T.Roger wrote:
And you wonder why women see a glass ceiling. It's golddiggers like these and Andrea Mackris (Bill O'Reilly's accuser) that cause people like me to avoid hiring women like the plague. Yeah, there are no bad guys, only bad gold digger women. Who ****ed in your Wheaties? |
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Hi NG,
Roger Long wrote: OK troll, I'll bite. I'm only aware of one rigorous study ever performed to determine the relative aptitude and safety of men vs women pilots as a group. The study was of ferry pilots in World War II and looked at the performance of men and women delivering aircraft to England. Remember, this was in the days of poor weather forecasts and primitive navigation. The study corrected for training and experience to attempt to determine if there was any essential difference between men and women. The conclusion was that there was a statistical basis to support the contention that men should not be allowed to fly aircraft at all! I have no idea about statistics, but will offer my opinion anyway: Two abilities play a major role in flying an aircraft: spatial orientation and the ability to perform several tasks at the same time. While the first is mainly atributed to men, the second is clearly a female stronghold! So on the skill side it's 1:1. On the judgement side someone has already mentioned the general statement, that women tend to act incompentent, while men tend to act plain stupid. Overall you can pull just the same arguments used generally in "women driver" discussions. regards, Friedrich -- for personal email please remove "entfernen" from my adress |
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NoPoliticsHere wrote: I haven't seen any stats on this, but it seems to me that, just maybe, there could be a much higher rate of crashes when there are ladies in the cockpit. Maybe this is not the case, and I'm sure the more PC gents here will be quick to jump on me for even suggesting it, but during the past, I have noticed more than a few female names mentioned in news reports about aircraft crashes (with them being one of the pilots, or the only pilot). Just how many female professional pilots are there? Aren't they involved in a disproportionately large number of accidents? Drawing from memory, here are a few: Don't know about that, but it seems to me that pretty much every passenger airliners that's ever crashed has had some female cabin crew members, and the vast majority of airliners that haven't crashed have had men up front. Could be some strange causation there. Then again, such an analysis could be as completely spurious as is your approach which seems to involve looking for crashes involving female flight crew, and then observing that there were female flight crew involved. I suggest you give up your day job, and follow your true vocation, which is clearly politics. Sylvia. |
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I think this is a valid question, maybe the politically correct amongst us
would shy away from such a question, but then, one of my friends once told me that the most interesting questions are those that are politically incorrect at the time. I would like to see the research not for the purpose of NOT hiring women or the like, but the see what differences in error making actually exists between the two sexes. Maybe both sexes can learn from their genetic predispositions and be on the look out more carefully. OT: on the other hand, I see that women are imho, better physicians than men. They are smarter, read more, are more up to date, are more demanding of themselves and of others around them (which means they can be more of a pain in the ass too) and are just as skilled manually as men. Again, off topic, women`s complaints of sexual discrimination and harassment do occasionally make them fall victim even before starting, because people are afraid to hire them and treat them as they do men, for fear they will use the sex card against their employer. A friend`s husband was fired for alleged sexual harassment in a software company but never got an opportunity to defend himself. Let go immediately that same day and told that if he shut up and accepted the plight, this would not show up on this work record. Considering the software business lately, he had little choice. Tien "T.Roger" wrote in message om... And you wonder why women see a glass ceiling. It's golddiggers like these and Andrea Mackris (Bill O'Reilly's accuser) that cause people like me to avoid hiring women like the plague. "Schlomo Lipchitz" wrote in message ... Delta Airlines had a couple of female pilots sitting at home getting full pay - one of which I flew with personally. They were fired for incompetence. But when they threatened to sue for sexual discrimination, Delta opted to just pay them rather that go through the negative publicity. And that's a fact Jack! |
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