Sexism in the Skies: Spatial Awareness
23rd February 2025
The last two commercial airline disasters had a woman in control of an aircraft, making critical errors. Both were beneficiaries of DEI policies that leapfrogged them ahead of more qualified candidates on the basis of their sex. In the first collision, the Blackhawk pilot did not remain spatially aware of her rotorcraft’s surroundings, and flew right into the path of the descending CRJ. And in the second collision, the rookie pilot, who may have been confused by the blowing snow, failed to flare her aircraft, and she slammed it into the ground. That everyone lived was a miracle, plain and simple.
This did not have to happen. Indeed, it should not have happened. It is a fact that men and women are different. And one of the basic physiological differences is that men have better spatial awareness for moving objects than women, while women have better color awareness than men. More than that (and highly relevant for the DCA Disaster): Men have an advantage over women in night vision due to the physical structure of the eye.
Of course, the Blank Slate crowd (not to mention the ‘assigned gender’ crowd) won’t accept any assertion of physical differences between men and women.