Pilot union suggests phasing out masculine terms, says 'cockpit,' 'father' is offensive to DEI culture
Pilot union suggests phasing out masculine terms, says 'cockpit,' 'father' is offensive to DEI culture
Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, suggested phasing out purportedly offensive masculine terms, criticizing terms such as "father" and "cockpit."
What’s funny is words really only have the power we give them. If we want to move off terms that might be construed as offensive, it’s literally as easy as choosing the replacement and using that instead.
But that simple fact freaks people out so much they have to write bullshit articles like this because they’re mad over a word. Not just the word itself, but that the word might be offensive or insensitive to some and that isn’t enough reason for them for it to be changed.
To that I say GFY, changing usage of a term to be more inclusive is not a big enough deal to be that mad about.
I also enjoyed the quote from a man saying "you don't see little girls playing with model planes" as proof that women genetically aren't meant to be pilots in an article denying the industry has an inclusion problem that needs to be addressed.
"We've noticed a lack of women becoming pilots so we created a DEI department to see if there might be some things we're doing that is discouraging women from seeking this as a career"
"Hiring women pilots!? How are women going to fly a plane!? They can't even drive a car! We're going to get more plane crashes if we hire women as pilots! They should just be a stewardess! And what happened to those short skirts they used to wear?"
"...well good news is we figured out the problem in record time!"