Are Mixed-Gender Cockpit Low-Trust Workplaces?

In Which I Notice Something Interesting About Three Recent Plane Disasters

I like to study plane crashes. Not because I am a sadist, or an anti-DEI crusader, or flying enthusiast.

I do it because I hate flying.

I study crashes because I hope I will find out why it went down so I can take steps to avoid that particular issue on future flights. So far, my crash awareness has taught me to avoid small planes, to avoid flying in snowstorms or through thunder cells, to avoid airlines in Russia and Africa, and even to avoid certain times of day and airplane models.

But with the advent of “diversity” and girl-boss power ideologies swamping all the airlines, my shortcuts and tricks no longer work. ALL airlines these days pledge their allegiance to DEI hiring.

I am not opposed to people other than straight white males who have 30 years of Air Force flying under their belts. I’m sure there are many highly competent female pilots and “pilots of color.”

But in a world of DEI pilot hires, it’s obvious that ANY pilot that checks a diversity box will be fast-tracked beyond t…