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What do you call a woman who flies a plane?
A "pilot," you sexist bastards.
Passenger tells female airline captain: Bible says cockpit is ‘no place for a woman’
By David Edwards
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 12:46 EST
A Canadian airline pilot said that she was shocked after receiving a recent note that cited the Bible as a reason flying airplanes were “no place for a woman.”
WestJet pilot Carey Steacy told CTV that crews were cleaning the aircraft after a flight from Calgary to Victoria on Sunday, and they found the note from a passenger named “David” written on a napkin.
“The cockpit of an airliner is no place for a woman,” the note said. “A woman being a mother is the most honour, not as ‘captain.’”
“PS I wish Westjet [sic] could tell me a fair lady is at the helm so I can book another flight,” he continued, observing that his views were “not PC.”
“It made me feel sad. It was just surprising,” Steacy recalled. “I can’t believe that there’s people that still think that way.”
In a post on Facebook, Steacy wrote that the passenger had been “welcome to deplane when you heard I was a ‘fair lady.’ You have that right. Funny, we all, us humans, have the same rights in this great free country of ours. ”
The WestJet passenger’s note also pointed to a Bible verse, Proverbs 31, which many Christians believe defines the “perfect” woman as a wife who works in the home.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/05/passenger-tells-female-airline-captain-bible-says-cockpit-is-no-place-for-a-woman/
By David Edwards
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 12:46 EST
A Canadian airline pilot said that she was shocked after receiving a recent note that cited the Bible as a reason flying airplanes were “no place for a woman.”
WestJet pilot Carey Steacy told CTV that crews were cleaning the aircraft after a flight from Calgary to Victoria on Sunday, and they found the note from a passenger named “David” written on a napkin.
“The cockpit of an airliner is no place for a woman,” the note said. “A woman being a mother is the most honour, not as ‘captain.’”
“PS I wish Westjet [sic] could tell me a fair lady is at the helm so I can book another flight,” he continued, observing that his views were “not PC.”
“It made me feel sad. It was just surprising,” Steacy recalled. “I can’t believe that there’s people that still think that way.”
In a post on Facebook, Steacy wrote that the passenger had been “welcome to deplane when you heard I was a ‘fair lady.’ You have that right. Funny, we all, us humans, have the same rights in this great free country of ours. ”
The WestJet passenger’s note also pointed to a Bible verse, Proverbs 31, which many Christians believe defines the “perfect” woman as a wife who works in the home.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/05/passenger-tells-female-airline-captain-bible-says-cockpit-is-no-place-for-a-woman/
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...also hermeneutically incorrect. Proverbs 31 discusses the relationship of a wife to a husband, family and household.
Maybe this person had some religious basis for thinking in this way but it certainly would not be based in any acceptable form of Christianity. This person may not have read 1 Peter regarding teaching about one's faith: "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect..."
I think rather it is some form of misogynistic prejudice. 
