Women Don't Want to Fly as Much as Men!

[aggiepilot87]

No telling, Bluto. Sure wish I could have figured out what it took to get one of those mysterious waivers though. When I was looking, 15 years ago, the only ones I knew of getting waivers were the ones who'd been trained and had the vision go South afterwards.

Had a roommate in college who was three years into an academic scholarship with the USMC. His vision dropped below 20/20 just before his senior year. No flying for him, either. But, he was also an angry white male.

 

[surfnole]

****I think that all jobs in the military, including direct combat positions, including Marine infantry, should be open to anyone that can PASS THE TEST***

You also mentioned that there should be a draft for women.

I think this is a horrible idea. What kind of country drafts their young women and then sends them out to war?

The military is not a social program.

From a practical perspective, as a nation, do you really want to send off young females of child bearing age to die? Even egg bearing female lobsters are protected by our federal goverment.

From a personal perspective, would you want you daughter drafted to go charge an Afghan foxhole to be possibly raped and brutalized?

Feminists pay lip service to the ideal of equality in the military. If they wanted true equality, they would lobby for all women to sign up for selective service at the age of 18. They would lobby for all women to be included in the draft. And, there would be no instant out based on pregnancy...or the woman combatant would have to agree to use enforced birth control. If that happened, we would really see just how popular equality in the military is.

No matter what NOW wants to tell you, men and women are wired differently. I am not saying that there aren't great woman pilots, I am saying that as a populution, women aren't as interested as men.

Whats really funny are these studies claiming that girls are discriminated against in school, when in most measurements, they outperform boys. What is the most destructive element of our society? Teenage males. Just ask any auto insurance company. According to the measurement of social disfunction, boys are the ones requiring the most help.

Enough of my rant.

 

[Ravengirl]

here we go...

Yes, aviation tends to be labelled as the "good old boys club", but in my experience, 95% of the men I've met are nice, helpful, respectful. The other 5%...well, they are what they are. But not all women in aviation are wonderful either...there are nice people and not-so-nice people, I suppose.

On another note, in the aviation and air traffic control classes at my school, it's about a 60-40 split between males and females. But I admit, more women are in the air traffic control program than the flight program. I'm one of the few ATC students who gives a **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** about flying the planes too.

Fewer women are interested in aviation, but then, fewer men are interested in being interior decorators. It's all relative.

Ravengirl

 

[TurboS7]

Women are diffrent than men. Women get more into the big picture of things and the details at the same time. Men can't do that, either we are looking at the big picture or we are looking at the details. On the other hand women don't want to be bothered with all the hassle of all of the above, it creates pressure and most women like to "chill out." They do need approval and they want to produce, give them the approval and they will climb a mountain for you. As for interest all my girls(five of them) want to fly but the economic's won't allow it. My sons aren't interested but if they were I would encourage him. The girls seem to like to fly for fun, my wife loves to just cruise in the C-150 and just check stuff out. To go fly and practice, that's boring. In the end women make wonderful aviators and I love having them on the flight deck, they are wonderful crewmembers. I have flown as FO for women and have had them as FO's, either way it was a pleasure and a priveledge.