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#121
If you guys are actually intellectually curious about the minority or gay or female experience in the workplace, I’d suggest doing some research off of this site and away from any type of biased political websites. Maybe call up a female pilot friend or gay colleague and ask them “is it harder to be a gay pilot day to day?”
Then you might understand.
Then you might understand.
#122
I only very vaguely remember the PM exchange. I don’t recall saying “I’d be one of the first to get hired.” That’s incredibly presumptuous and arrogant, and frankly I don’t believe that’s my character. Perhaps I said I hoped I’d be one of the first. As it is, clearly that has not transpired. I still feel well-qualified, but not entitled, to interview, and several consultants have agreed. I’ll bide my time until then doing whatever I can to stack the deck in my favor. I’m certainly not “just waiting for the call” and then complaining I’m not getting it.
I hate to explain my previous post, because it’s not a cop out. I believe some people just want to believe what they believe and that’s that. However, I’ll make a feeble attempt at verbalizing something that I don’t have a first hand experience in...
I cannot ever understand what it’s like to be a female in the this industry. I will never understand how it feels to know that any cockpit you enter might aggravate the pilot you’re flying with simply because you’re a woman and now they’ll feel like that have to alter their behavior to not offend you. I’ll never know what it feels like to overhear “another empty kitchen” jokes, or field constant questions like “what does your husband think?” “Don’t you want kids?” “Are you going to quit for a family?”. I’ll never know what it feels like to have entire threads derail into “She was only hired because she was a woman” and then sit next to someone who believes exactly that. I can’t understand that and won’t pretend I do. If you don’t think that this is an immediate disadvantage, then I’m sorry. If you can’t have sympathy for those female pilots who just as hard as anyone else only for their peers to make jokes behind their backs or say they were only hired because of their anatomy, I’m sorry.
Does this fit every person? No. Do some people get hired due to some HR diversity matrix, undoubtedly.
Likewise, I won’t for a second pretend I know what it’s like to be black in America.
The truth as I see it is this, white males have an advantage simply because we are the majority. When you are in the majority you are not different. You have nothing to prove to anyone. There aren’t snide comments made about you by other pilots because of anything other than your crummy stick and rudder skills.
That’s the advantage. I’m not saying we don’t work as hard, or harder to get where we are. God knows I’ve done my time. But I’ve never sat in those other shoes.
I hate to explain my previous post, because it’s not a cop out. I believe some people just want to believe what they believe and that’s that. However, I’ll make a feeble attempt at verbalizing something that I don’t have a first hand experience in...
I cannot ever understand what it’s like to be a female in the this industry. I will never understand how it feels to know that any cockpit you enter might aggravate the pilot you’re flying with simply because you’re a woman and now they’ll feel like that have to alter their behavior to not offend you. I’ll never know what it feels like to overhear “another empty kitchen” jokes, or field constant questions like “what does your husband think?” “Don’t you want kids?” “Are you going to quit for a family?”. I’ll never know what it feels like to have entire threads derail into “She was only hired because she was a woman” and then sit next to someone who believes exactly that. I can’t understand that and won’t pretend I do. If you don’t think that this is an immediate disadvantage, then I’m sorry. If you can’t have sympathy for those female pilots who just as hard as anyone else only for their peers to make jokes behind their backs or say they were only hired because of their anatomy, I’m sorry.
Does this fit every person? No. Do some people get hired due to some HR diversity matrix, undoubtedly.
Likewise, I won’t for a second pretend I know what it’s like to be black in America.
The truth as I see it is this, white males have an advantage simply because we are the majority. When you are in the majority you are not different. You have nothing to prove to anyone. There aren’t snide comments made about you by other pilots because of anything other than your crummy stick and rudder skills.
That’s the advantage. I’m not saying we don’t work as hard, or harder to get where we are. God knows I’ve done my time. But I’ve never sat in those other shoes.
Complete and utter b.s!!!
The way you see it through the liberal lens is what wrong with this whole premis of white privelage. Which in of itself is racist!
How about this Sherlock, your white and in the majority then you would have to be the best to stick out among your peers to get hired as opposed to being in the minority where it’s much easier as the pool is less.
So sick of this being brought up over and over. How about this, there are plenty of “people” black, white male, female,straight, gay, we are all just people. Why the subgroups?
I’ve flown with many “people” and have heard many stories of how they got to where they are today.some had it easy and some not.
So sick and tired of this white privelage, absolutely hate that term, so racist and derogatory. There are many white males that have worked their collective asses of to get to where they are today, just like any other group mentioned above.
#123
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#124
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#125
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Complete and utter b.s!!!
The way you see it through the liberal lens is what wrong with this whole premis of white privelage. Which in of itself is racist!
How about this Sherlock, your white and in the majority then you would have to be the best to stick out among your peers to get hired as opposed to being in the minority where it’s much easier as the pool is less.
So sick of this being brought up over and over. How about this, there are plenty of “people” black, white male, female,straight, gay, we are all just people. Why the subgroups?
I’ve flown with many “people” and have heard many stories of how they got to where they are today.some had it easy and some not.
So sick and tired of this white privelage, absolutely hate that term, so racist and derogatory. There are many white males that have worked their collective asses of to get to where they are today, just like any other group mentioned above.
The way you see it through the liberal lens is what wrong with this whole premis of white privelage. Which in of itself is racist!
How about this Sherlock, your white and in the majority then you would have to be the best to stick out among your peers to get hired as opposed to being in the minority where it’s much easier as the pool is less.
So sick of this being brought up over and over. How about this, there are plenty of “people” black, white male, female,straight, gay, we are all just people. Why the subgroups?
I’ve flown with many “people” and have heard many stories of how they got to where they are today.some had it easy and some not.
So sick and tired of this white privelage, absolutely hate that term, so racist and derogatory. There are many white males that have worked their collective asses of to get to where they are today, just like any other group mentioned above.
#126
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Joined APC: May 2006
Posts: 540
If you guys are actually intellectually curious about the minority or gay or female experience in the workplace, I’d suggest doing some research off of this site and away from any type of biased political websites. Maybe call up a female pilot friend or gay colleague and ask them “is it harder to be a gay pilot day to day?”
Then you might understand.
Then you might understand.
I asked about white privilege and you go off onto a tangent about gay pilots. Thread drift or deflection.
Biff
#127
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Posts: 540
I hate to explain my previous post, because it’s not a cop out. I believe some people just want to believe what they believe and that’s that. However, I’ll make a feeble attempt at verbalizing something that I don’t have a first hand experience in...
I cannot ever understand what it’s like to be a female in the this industry. I will never understand how it feels to know that any cockpit you enter might aggravate the pilot you’re flying with simply because you’re a woman and now they’ll feel like that have to alter their behavior to not offend you. I’ll never know what it feels like to overhear “another empty kitchen” jokes, or field constant questions like “what does your husband think?” “Don’t you want kids?” “Are you going to quit for a family?”. I’ll never know what it feels like to have entire threads derail into “She was only hired because she was a woman” and then sit next to someone who believes exactly that. I can’t understand that and won’t pretend I do. If you don’t think that this is an immediate disadvantage, then I’m sorry. If you can’t have sympathy for those female pilots who just as hard as anyone else only for their peers to make jokes behind their backs or say they were only hired because of their anatomy, I’m sorry.
Does this fit every person? No. Do some people get hired due to some HR diversity matrix, undoubtedly.
Likewise, I won’t for a second pretend I know what it’s like to be black in America.
The truth as I see it is this, white males have an advantage simply because we are the majority. When you are in the majority you are not different. You have nothing to prove to anyone. There aren’t snide comments made about you by other pilots because of anything other than your crummy stick and rudder skills.
That’s the advantage. I’m not saying we don’t work as hard, or harder to get where we are. God knows I’ve done my time. But I’ve never sat in those other shoes.
So if I get you and ReadyRsv correct both of you believe it’s more difficult for some than others. Guess what, it is. I wouldn’t draw the line quite so defined along gender or sexual preferences. However I do think it can be harder for mold breakers or the first into a new area.
The first pilots died quite frequently, and there was no litigation network to help those who they left behind. The first crew airplanes did not have someone teaching them CRM. The first checklists came about because someone died. Again the pioneers in aviation paid with their lives to make it better for those who followed. As those pioneers in space who have done the same thing, as will social pioneers.
Maybe I’m just a little cynical but I flew with female instructors in the USAF in the late 80s, one of the first females in the F15 community in the mid 90s (and she was a good sh!t - that’s a seriously good compliment from a fighter pilot) and in the Airlines ever since. Do I think those who went first suffer friction along the way, sure do.
So when does it stop? When do people grow some skin, push back, or reach that level where the comments of someone else doesn’t impact them?
The first pilots paid with flesh and blood, and now some of those who follow pay with hurt feelings. Talk about a lopsided perspective.
You can’t control what others do or say, but you control how you feel and react to it.
It’s my lowly opine that there needs to be a appreciation for what we have here in the US as a whole, and the airline industry in particular.
Cheers,
Biff
#128
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Joined APC: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,159
If you guys are actually intellectually curious about the minority or gay or female experience in the workplace, I’d suggest doing some research off of this site and away from any type of biased political websites. Maybe call up a female pilot friend or gay colleague and ask them “is it harder to be a gay pilot day to day?”
Then you might understand.
Then you might understand.
The profession should be color blind. It should be whatever blind.
it's very hard to be a straight Cajun from South Louisiana too.
So what...…
Everything's hard. Nothing worth doing is easy. It's probably hard being a female or gay astronaut. I don't think the standards, etc., should be lowered, or there needs to be any special consideration because it's "hard."
If this is your profession, suck it up and decide if it's for you. The profession as a whole will not change, nor will it's entry requirements, nor it's sacred rights of passage, nor will its requirements to stay in the profession.
I can't think of a single profession worth doing that's easy regardless of what side of the tracks you grew up on etc., etc. etc.
#129
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Desire, Dedication, Dilligence, Drive.
You make the grade, you do the job.
Who cares about "diversity?" No one!
This profession demands professionalism. If those in charge of hiring are trying to rack and stack their diversity matrix that means they are sacrificing professionalism.
Diversity if the new four letter word. Don't be fooled by those fancy HR degrees. it's just another form of discrimination. If a better qualified candidate gets passed over because of "data point collection", it was discrimination.
So, if you are for diversity first, and qualifications second, I say that is discriminatory and unfair, and unprofessional.
#130
I’m not going to waste my time arguing with your rant. However, first of all, I am not a liberal, I’m a registered independent. My political leanings generally lean conservative. Thank you for immediately turning this into that and not about the actual people (see sarcasm). Secondly, your grammar and spelling are atrocious, and your ability to construct a meaningful paragraph is tenuous at best.
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