Humour airplanes and women

"Chris" wrote in message
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Well my wife thought it was funny when I showed her.

And mine, who finally had a chance to read it, did not. Quite the opposite,
in fact.

Since a sample of two, or even of twenty, tells you nothing, all we really
know from that is that we and our respective spouses are well-suited for
each other.

Peter Duniho wrote:

"Chris" wrote in message
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Well my wife thought it was funny when I showed her.


And mine, who finally had a chance to read it, did not. Quite the opposite,
in fact.

That's certainly a surprise. :-)

Lack of a sense of humor must run in the family.


Matt

"Skywise" wrote in message
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"Dan Luke" wrote in news:11skm3qcv2cqg90
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"Peter Duniho" wrote:

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And people wonder why so few women participate in aviation.


The jokes are tasteless and stupid and do reflect a kind of boneheaded
good-ol'-boyism that infects aviation to an excessive degree.

The howls of protest and cries of "politically correct!" that greeted
your post are illustrative.

Hang in there, Pete.

I forget where I heard this, but I'm pretty sure it was a
radio talk show host. He said something along the lines of,

"If I say something that offends you, that's not *my*
problem. It's *yours*. I'm not the one who is offended".

Quite!

What a nation of thin-skinned, thumb-sucking whiners the US has become.

"Skywise" wrote in message
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But I brought it up to point out that it is *his* problem if he is
offended by the original joke. If he doesn't like it, he needs to do
something to change *his* situation so he will no longer be exposed
to that which offends him - and I don't mean forcing his opinion of
what is offensive or not onto everyone else.

Given the original joke, he needs to change his meds!

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Skywise" wrote in message
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I forget where I heard this, but I'm pretty sure it was a
radio talk show host. He said something along the lines of,

"If I say something that offends you, that's not *my*
problem. It's *yours*. I'm not the one who is offended".

Quite!

What a nation of thin-skinned, thumb-sucking whiners the US has become.

....he says while whining about a "PC" post that offended him, oblivious to
the irony.

--Gary

"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Skywise" wrote in message
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I forget where I heard this, but I'm pretty sure it was a
radio talk show host. He said something along the lines of,

"If I say something that offends you, that's not *my*
problem. It's *yours*. I'm not the one who is offended".

Quite!

What a nation of thin-skinned, thumb-sucking whiners the US has become.

...he says while whining about a "PC" post that offended him, oblivious to
the irony.

Which person are you referring to?

Oh, and are you referring to Skywise's take on PC?. or on Peter's completely
psychotic reaction to the original joke?

Political Correctness is Fascism run by "Progressives".

[no flame, just small candle]

Newbies. They buy their computer at the grocery store, get on
the web, and discover a new world. And don't realize there's
very little original humor online. We've seen it. Far too
many times.

[small candle off]

No, this is not why there are so few women in aviation. But
it is a symptom.

On the other hand, since I'm usually one of the few (or only)
females at work (or school when I'm taking classes or teaching
at the university level -- adjunct faculty) I'm used to it.

But I really long for originality.

Peter Duniho wrote:
Well, screw you. People bitch and whine about how aviation is dying on the
vine, and yet the industry basically excludes 50% of the population, through
a variety of means but very much including this sort of sexism.

Peter:

I've used the line "screw you" once. But the entire comment was

"I'd say screw you, but you're not my type".

Completely confounded the other person!!

Skywise wrote:
Ok, time for a show of hands. Any ladies reading this group
please speak up and vote whether you feel aviation is
discrimanatory to women.

Since it's the ladies that seem to be the subject of this
debate, let's hear what THEY have to say.

OK - as one of the resident females...and lady, I'll speak up. (Which
I already did at the original post, but let's continue the
discussion)

Yes, aviation is discriminatory. As is most of the hard sciences.
My undergrad degree is math. Anytime anyone heard that, they asked
at what grade school I was going to teach. And I have the math
degree because after 3.5 years in EE, I was bored. And had already
been accepted to grad school in engineering. And business for an
MBA, but I went with the engineering school. My PhD is a joint
Math and Computer Science. Most of my professional career has
been in aerospace. From a fashion POV, the US Navy wins all the time.

I've been told to change majors to business or education or sociology
far too many times. I laugh. College students that I advise have
been told by other faculty to quit, that they shouldn't be there, or
they should drop out until they have the baby (one was pregnant
at the time).

I fly. I own an airplane. I've worked as a consultant to ATC, so I've
spent a fair amount of time in towers.

What the underlying issue becomes is not "political correctness" but
one of manners and respect and maturity.