A student pilot successfully landed a plane by herself after her instructor jumped to his death mid-flight.
She said her instructor told her “You know what to do” before leaping from the aircraft.
The article shows a picture of the instructor next to an image of a small single engine cessna.
Comment reads: You could literally land a plane by yourself after your instructor jumps to his death mid-flight and they’d still use a picture of a man.
It is expected for a trained pilot (she had a PPL) to land a plane. Suicide by jumping from a plane is the story.
What a silly idea to turn this into a story about gender.
What does it do for you guys to come in here and scold us for what topics we want to talk about?
Why does it bother you?
It’s an online forum where people post and discuss things. That’s how it works.
You’re not discussing things, you’re complaining that we made it about gender. In a women’s only community.
Is it really so shocking that one will find gender-based discussions in a community that is gender-based?
Although there has been a steady increase in the number of women professionals over the past 20 years, most mainstream press coverage continues to rely on men as experts in the fields of business, politics and economics. Women in the news are spoken about with language that has sexist connotations and are more likely to be featured in stories about accidents, natural disasters or domestic violence than in stories about their professional abilities or expertise.
…gender representation in the media appears to be frequently skewed toward men’s representation and prominently features gender stereotypes. On a global scale, news coverage appears to mostly feature men, especially when considering representation as expert voices, where women are still underrepresented (24%) despite a rise in coverage in the last 5 years
Those are two different sources, by the way. Wouldn’t want to confuse you.
It’s well documented that the media uses biases when covering stories about women. That’s the real topic here.
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