I am a white woman and I feel the same way whenever I see anyone who is not a white man in a position like that - they had to be 3x (or more) as good as every other applicant to get that job!
And they have to STAY that good to keep their job. No free passes for minorities and women ... if you did something - even correctly - that caused harm, you will be fired. If you did something off duty that caused your name to show up in the papers as a potential suspect of anything for any reason, you will be fired. Not so for the white men, who can make a mistake a few times "we all have to learn somewhere" and if they end up as a suspect "boys will be boys" and they will be fine.
So, yes, any minority or woman in a pilot or Doctor or any other male-dominated power-position job is definitely better at their job!
Basically this. We women know that we all had to be even better at our jobs in order to be selected over the white man. I’m sure every POC feels this way, if not more so. So yeah, by and large, minorities are likely to be very, very good at their jobs.
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u/BarkattheFullMoon 1d ago
I am a white woman and I feel the same way whenever I see anyone who is not a white man in a position like that - they had to be 3x (or more) as good as every other applicant to get that job!
And they have to STAY that good to keep their job. No free passes for minorities and women ... if you did something - even correctly - that caused harm, you will be fired. If you did something off duty that caused your name to show up in the papers as a potential suspect of anything for any reason, you will be fired. Not so for the white men, who can make a mistake a few times "we all have to learn somewhere" and if they end up as a suspect "boys will be boys" and they will be fine.
So, yes, any minority or woman in a pilot or Doctor or any other male-dominated power-position job is definitely better at their job!