• nightshade [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    It’s a stiff competition, but the idea that women are biologically incapable of flying airplanes has got to be one of the dumbest right-wing culture war talking points out there.

    Edit: Also, the fact that his wife is a pilot explains a lot; I don’t know how anyone could tolerate being married to The Quartering if they weren’t away from home all the time.

    • Jew [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      One of the wierd things I hyperfocus on is aviation disasters. I know way too much about plane crashes and am always learning more.

      Men are so much more likely to cause plane crashes, mainly because they are overconfident. Take the worst airplane crash of all time, 1977 in Tenerife. The KLM pilot was impatient and overconfident. He rushed takeoff in zero visibility and got 583 people killed. His copilot did not push back on the impatient pilot, mainly because he was a poster boy for KLM. The pilot was featured in their brochure as an expert aviator and it made him a bit of a celebrity in the company. His ego, and it being fed by KLM, got hundreds killed.

      The last thing you want in aviation is an overconfident older white guy flying.

    • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      Also, the fact that his wife is a pilot explains a lot; I don’t know how anyone could tolerate being married to The Quartering if they weren’t away from home all the time.

      yeah and the fact that he peas in the basement