Men are physically different from women in ways that matter for many reasons, not the least of which are occupations and war fighting. I hope this isn’t the slightest bit controversial here at FR.
Men are also mentally different from women.
Men score significantly higher than women on spatial relations tests. Funny, this matters when you’re piloting huge tubes of aluminum full of people and goods through the air around the planet. Especially if your highest goal is to not have them intersect, and take off and land and taxi safely.
We should expect to find significantly more men in pilot and ATC roles for this reason. That idiots are trying to force outcomes not based on skills and merit will result in failures to meet those goals, with tragic results.
It shouldn’t be controversial, but to some, it always is.
As you say, the truth of it is, there are differences.
Anyone who pays attention sees that men and women view things and operate in an environment in very different ways. We are wired differently. If aliens came to Earth, they would likely view men and women as different species.
I have long held the belief that those differences are exactly the reason that a man and woman together can, in many ways, be stronger in unison than either of them could be as an individual...when acting as a pair (not just co-mingling males and females together in the idiotic belief that dynamic works in a group)
Males and females compliment each other in a Ying-Yang relationship. We can each bring something to the table and supply something missing in the other, and vice versa. There are some things women do better than men, and some thing men do better at than women.
Smart, intelligent men and women recognize this fact, and accept it. In healthy male-female relationships, both recognize this as fact...and are better for it.
The mistake ideologues (almost entirely on the Left) make is assuming that benefit scales into all facets of society and culture, and it does not. It doesn’t mean what they assert in their asinine claims of “strength in diversity”.
It means that in a bonded couple.
It doesn’t mean that in combat, or a number of any other things. And pretending it does is going to get people killed.
“Men are also mentally different from women.”
The left hates reality. The left sees things the way they want them to be, not how they really are.
The left will be our undoing. I do hate them.
Mary Gaffney gave me my private license checkout test flight. Of course there are exceptions.
Men frequently are task oriented, single focused, so that flying the plane, with all of its intricacies becomes Job One. Many women complain that men can/will do only one thing at a time, in order, single file. For flying, there are no shortcuts or do overs.
Have yet to meet a woman that doesn’t routinely multitask ALL OF THE TIME. Many of them brag about it. It’s a reason women think that they can text while driving a car. “Wasn’t an accident so far.”
Compound that with Less than stellar common sense among any diverse candidates, chaos and disaster in any color. If someone has primary focus on race, color, genders, then the focus isn’t on doing the job right.
My brother likes to remind that every plane lands eventually, just varies where and how hard. Gravity always wins.
FYI, i met Terri Jones. She can fly me anywhere. Exception to the rule?