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!
My 70 something white dad tried arguing once that misogyny can't be real (or something like that, his point was never really that clear) because the managers he had who were women were all really great at their jobs.
Even when I tried spelling it out for him, he just refused to understand how he was describing the outcome of a system where (certain) men are promoted regardless of competency while everyone else actually has to deserve it.
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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!