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Seminole Lake Owner Arrested
Why do we need to attract and retain women in this sport?
I say we need to attract new blood, not of any group, sex, ethnicity, religion, or anything else other than folks who dream to experience the joy that we try to express to others. We need to get away from identifying people by physical traits. BTW, I enjoyed the honey dripping southern drawl and I understood that it was meant in good fun. People are just too sensitive. Dan On 2/25/2016 8:30 AM, Waveguru wrote: It is hard enough to attract and retain women in this sport, and posts like the last one, while tongue in cheek, are counterproductive to what we want in our sport IMHO. Boggs -- Dan, 5J |
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Seminole Lake Owner Arrested
On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 10:36:09 AM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
Why do we need to attract and retain women in this sport? I say we need to attract new blood, not of any group, sex, ethnicity, religion, or anything else other than folks who dream to experience the joy that we try to express to others.* We need to get away from identifying people by physical traits. BTW, I enjoyed the honey dripping southern drawl and I understood that it was meant in good fun.* People are just too sensitive. Dan On 2/25/2016 8:30 AM, Waveguru wrote: It is hard enough to attract and retain women in this sport, and posts like the last one, while tongue in cheek, are counterproductive to what we want in our sport IMHO. Boggs -- Dan, 5J Dan, believe it or not but attitudes like yours and Henry's are what's keeping us from having the smallest semblance of diversity in our sport - plus you are driving away the few non-old-white-men that do soaring. Making fun of others that don't look like you or use a different bathroom is never funny. |
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Seminole Lake Owner Arrested
Yes. We need to attract people to our sport. We all suffer from declining numbers and women are some of the available pool of "blood". A condisending attitude towards women, or any other "group" might even be unappealing to a wide variety of people here. There are a lot of people reading this group and anybody that posts is, to some extent, a representation of who we are in soaring. I think bad attitudes do our community a disservice.
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Seminole Lake Owner Arrested
Let it be known soaring is the last bastion of shiny white males and you will see the ranks overflow with those seeking same.
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Seminole Lake Owner Arrested
The majority of young people and quite a few older people are not going to join or stick around in a community that lets thinly veiled hostility to women and other under-represented demographics pass unremarked.
Let's keep it friendly. We all agree that soaring is in general awesome. It's part of the fun to passionately disagree and fight about the fine points of soaring. But I thought we all agreed to keep politics, religion, and social theorizing out of soaring. We're too small of a group to start picking sides in those areas. |
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Seminole Lake Owner Arrested
On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 3:40:12 PM UTC-5, son_of_flubber wrote:
The majority of young people and quite a few older people are not going to join or stick around in a community that lets thinly veiled hostility to women and other under-represented demographics pass unremarked. Let's keep it friendly. We all agree that soaring is in general awesome. It's part of the fun to passionately disagree and fight about the fine points of soaring. But I thought we all agreed to keep politics, religion, and social theorizing out of soaring. We're too small of a group to start picking sides in those areas. Actually young people are swinging back to conservative social values, they've lived enough diversity to be over it. Darn kids with their rebellious ways. |
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Seminole Lake Owner Arrested
i just KNEW this was going to turn into a **** show. on Feb 22 i almost wrote "and now we wait for some sucker to take the bait."
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Seminole Lake Owner Arrested
i just knew this was going to turn into a **** show. saw it coming from a mile away.
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Seminole Lake Owner Arrested
Looks like this is the end for Mihai Tanjala and his ownership of Seminole Lake Gliderport. The people of Romania want their stolen money back. It has been national news for years now and finally coming to an end.
Whoever has cash to purchase this airport and its aircraft should be able to buy it from the Romanian government for a very reasonable price. Watch this interview with one of the worlds most wanted criminals. https://youtu.be/tDblm82uez8 https://youtu.be/tDblm82uez8 |
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