FAA group urges move to gender-neutral
terms, no more ‘airman’ or ‘cockpit’
New York Post,
by
Tamar Lapin
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/25/2021 11:54:33 AM
A Federal Aviation Administration advisory group is urging the agency to replace words like “airman” and “cockpit” with gender-neutral terms like “aviator” and “flight deck.” The FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee put forth the recommendations in a report released Wednesday, part of a broader push for equity in the agency and aviation industry. “Research shows that the utilization of gender-neutral language can lead to a more inclusive environment that draws more people to the industry and helps keep them there,” the report states. The committee offered several alternatives for terms commonly used in the industry, such as using “manufactured” or “fabricated” instead of “man-made.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/25/2021 11:56:35 AM (No. 826279)
We're supposed to take this seriously. FTA: "It also noted that the term 'cockpit' has at times been used by male crew members to 'undermine femme co-workers'—and proposed that 'flight deck' be used instead."
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F inclusivity.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine 6/25/2021 12:01:49 PM (No. 826285)
I guess they could call the cockpit a personpit. Who are these women who get to upset at common terminology? How big of a baby can they be? I'm so tired of all these upset people over a silly word. Do they not have more to worry about than simple wordage that's been around forever.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ladyknowsalot 6/25/2021 12:05:53 PM (No. 826289)
Can we agree there is something wrong with a person who finds a reference to slang for male anatomy in a section of an airplane? If I pull the lever on my pistol in order to shoot, guess that's a sex act too!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 6/25/2021 12:08:18 PM (No. 826295)
"Cockpit"......LOL! These freaking morons. That has NOTHING to do with gender you brainless, hateful trash.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 6/25/2021 12:09:16 PM (No. 826297)
The left is perpetually offended. They're bullies.You do not give into bullies because it only encourages them. They have to be challenged . Stood up to. P.C is nothing more than censorship.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/25/2021 12:22:15 PM (No. 826313)
Oh, geez. I guess that I’m a major offender of these snowflakes. I’m a woman and I still refer to the female flight crew as stewardesses.
Mea culpa, mea culpa! /s
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Californian 6/25/2021 12:24:37 PM (No. 826319)
MAN-ufactured?! I am offended! Why not WOMAN-ufactured!? Women can ufacture just as well or better than men!
And why so transphobic? Why not TRANS-ufactured?!
We must stop the airlines from inflicting this violence upon us and our allies!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kono 6/25/2021 12:28:08 PM (No. 826326)
"Flight deck" already has specific meanings relative to usage, usually the runway, and sometimes (if I recall correctly) the long-range cruising altitude.
By the time they rework our vocabulary to eliminate every snowflake trigger, it'll be so generic that it can't communicate even basic concepts. For job roles, after the nouns are all "person", the adjectives will be "thing" or "something" or "anything"... Airman will be thingperson. Steersman will be thingperson. No more chairman, lineman, etc. And "owner" will eventually be verboten, as the concept of private property will be anathema in the collective vision; everything will belong to the government.
I'd say "just say no"; but the only safe advice will be "just say nothing at all". You never know what will offend somebody and get you punished.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/25/2021 12:31:06 PM (No. 826331)
PLEASE! Stop finding deeper offensive meanings in everything. 99.9999999999% of the time words are just words an actions are just actions. Stop being offended at everything. Liberals are the most unhappy people ever! Since January, being offended has become a new occupation for many people. They search out things to be offended about even when there is no reason to. These people need to get over their self righteousness and indignation, take some Xanax, and get a life. Go out, have some fun and try to remember what life was like before you joined the ranks of of the prepetually offended.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/25/2021 12:49:54 PM (No. 826352)
Stuck on stupid.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/25/2021 12:51:22 PM (No. 826353)
Proposals from the FAA Drone Advisory Committee. The only thing I like about this is the appropriate name of the committee
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
red1066 6/25/2021 12:52:57 PM (No. 826354)
So these pilots went through training, probably in the military where airman, and cockpit were used and now they want the terms changed? I'm not going to fly on any plane with snowflakes this sensitive. Find another line of work. Maybe in daycare.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
zoidberg 6/25/2021 12:57:12 PM (No. 826357)
Do they even know that a "drone" is a MALE bee?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cold porridge 6/25/2021 1:03:53 PM (No. 826366)
It's obvious that the FAA Drone Advisory Committee needs to be cancelled and disbanded.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 6/25/2021 1:04:12 PM (No. 826368)
A family member was an airline pilot for decades, and she flew in the cockpit without incident, SOMEHOW managing to keep her sanity.
Literally insane talk.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 6/25/2021 1:05:12 PM (No. 826370)
Are we not all human any more?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
coldborezero 6/25/2021 1:06:49 PM (No. 826373)
Please understand, these leftist tyrants are not stupid and they don't actually care about the meanings of words. They are evil and their reason for existence is to control other people. Control the language, control the narrative, control the people. Once you understand their ultimate goal, everything they do or say makes perfect sense. They must be utterly destroyed if we the people are ever to be free.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Krause 6/25/2021 1:16:41 PM (No. 826383)
All this renaming is really funny.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 6/25/2021 1:19:24 PM (No. 826385)
If this committee has this much time on their hands, they really ought to realize that they are totally useless to the world and just swim halfway across the ocean or something.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NeverForget 6/25/2021 1:42:11 PM (No. 826405)
I guess if the pilot happens to be -- or identify as -- a woman, it should be called the pussypit. 🙄
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
sparky joe 6/25/2021 1:53:43 PM (No. 826423)
Are any members of this Advisory Group
who object to the word COCKPIT
members of a COUNTRY CLUB?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/25/2021 1:59:18 PM (No. 826431)
does anyone ever consider word origins? cockpit is a term dating from when ships were made of wood and men (persons?) were made of iron.nothing to do with "gender". they should "bloody" look up the etymology
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 6/25/2021 2:04:30 PM (No. 826435)
Bunch of boobs.
Oh, sorry, can't say that.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/25/2021 2:41:27 PM (No. 826471)
Yes and let’s call mankind, personkind, and manual labor can be personlabor, and manufacture can be peoplefacture. Let’s just get stupider and stupider.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 6/25/2021 2:41:37 PM (No. 826472)
We'll never know how many thousands of potential job applicants to the FAA said to themselves, "I won't apply to work at the FAA because they use atrocious words such as "Airman" and "cockpit."
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 6/25/2021 2:41:38 PM (No. 826473)
#21 - From a meme I saw a while back, girl pilots prefer the term "box office".
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
SweetSweetback 6/25/2021 3:04:45 PM (No. 826494)
First they came for cockpit, next they’ll come for “ballcock” and “lazy Susan”
Beware, and unite in defiance, plumbers and furniture salesman!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Cousair 6/25/2021 3:16:23 PM (No. 826507)
How about renaming the US Senate
The DICKS and DYKES
The house members to be
TURDS and FARTS
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Namma 6/25/2021 3:35:18 PM (No. 826523)
Saw a picture of an all female flight crew. Dubbed. The box office. Who is going to make me stop using “banned” words. Here’s one for the people making the list. STUPID
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
downnout 6/25/2021 4:11:17 PM (No. 826544)
With all the problems the airlines have this is the last thing the FAA should be doing. Clearly, they have too many employees searching for things to keep them busy and employed.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DVC 6/25/2021 5:10:42 PM (No. 826611)
An airline pilot friend told me the FAA Motto:
We're not happy, 'til you're not happy."
Yep, pretty accurate.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 6/25/2021 5:30:27 PM (No. 826621)
So now what happens when they have to fly to Bangcock.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Boni 6/25/2021 6:44:22 PM (No. 826678)
Instead of cockpit, what will they call it? The womb? The drag-pit? Why is everyone going along with this nonsense?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Goose 6/26/2021 10:22:27 AM (No. 827172)
Question: What will that part of Europe where so many 17th and 18th Century wars were fought ("the cockpit of Europe") be called now, the flightdeck of Europe? What will we call the arena in which roosters fight to the death? The cockflightdeck?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
local500 6/27/2021 7:00:27 AM (No. 827754)
Yes, it is all about the "offensive" names and words, and using inclusive ones solves all the problems. Using preferred pronouns also will solve all the problems.
Those woke policies would stop airplanes from having problems. No more air disasters and would also stop plane hijackers too. Just call them by their preferred pronouns, and tell them there are "birthing people" on board. Problem solved.
Clown world we are living in.
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The entire committee should be fired if this is how they spend their time. Pure juvenile folly.