Women not fit to fly combat jets: IAF boss

[SQ8]

@Abingdonboy
This should be an answer to your post too, where you had mentioned me.

Are you willing to put all that to chance? was the American public ready for it? Was the fallout from it acceptable?
Its one woman.

 

[Durrak]

Women are only good to FLIRT with!!! Thats it. Flying combat jets, a single piece of them cost about 50 million $.

Some people can't think beyond it.

 

[A.Rafay]

Some people can't think beyond it.

He is right! Girls like you are not fit for combat jets

Combat jets are for tall, strong women.

 

[Levina]

Are you willing to put all that to chance? was the American public ready for it? Was the fallout from it acceptable?
Its one woman.

Eerything in this world is put to chance.
Nuclear power plant disasters like Chenobyl and Fukushima have not deterred governments from constructing new NPPs.
A car we drive on the road has its risks...
Travelling on flight has its risks...but ppl all over the world take the chance.

The pilot Major Rhonda was prepared for it and faced the ordeal like a hero.
She has the spunk to say that what happened to her should not be quoted everywhere and should not deter females from joining as combat pilots.
Btw a male combat pilot too has equal if not more chances of getting shot down and abused as POW...

When a female is prepared to take her chance then why is she demoralised???

 

[Durrak]

He is right! Girls like you are not fit for combat jets

Combat jets are for tall, strong women.

Well I am not interested in your statements .

 

[SQ8]

nobyl and Fukushima have not deterred governments from constructing new NPPs.
A car we drive on the road has its risks...
Travelling on flight has its risks...but ppl all over the world take the chance.
The pilot Major Rhonda was prepared for it and faced the ordeal like a hero.
She has the spunk to say that what happened to her should not be quoted everywhere and should not deter females from joining as combat pilots.
Btw a male combat pilot too has equal if not more chances of getting shot down and abused as POW...
When a female is prepared to take her chance then why is she demoralised?

Because it directly affects the morale of her fellow male soldiers. It not a single womans war.. but that of an entire nation and military force. A female being captured, tortured and raped would have greater effect on morale than a male being blown to bits.
You are arguing from the PoV of a western society.. but by far and large the societies of the subcontinent ARE NOT at all even close to that level of social acceptance or tolerance where western society is.

 

[A.Rafay]

Well I am not interested in your statements .

Me neither!

 

[Levina]

Because it directly affects the morale of her fellow male soldiers. It not a single womans war.. but that of an entire nation and military force. A female being captured, tortured and raped would have greater effect on morale than a male being blown to bits.
You are arguing from the PoV of a western society.. but by far and large the societies of the subcontinent ARE NOT at all even close to that level of social acceptance or tolerance where western society is.

The subcontinent is changing....the region around the subcontinet is changing.Our neighbors are changing....
Isnt Ayesha Farooq Pakistan's first female fighter pilot??
She flies the F7-PG, a Chinese version of the MiG 21 jet. And her primary responsibility is of guarding the border with India.
But back home in our India the scene hasn’t changed much over the last eight decades. Stuck in time...the nation still has several reservations as far as commissioning female combat pilots are concerned.
I wasnt expecting this from IAF Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha...
Let me remind you more 150 yrars back we had a great historic woman-warrior Rani Laxmi Bai.

My question is if Pak can have combat pilot then why not India??
The change has to come.... its only a question of when?

 

[BATMAN]

This thread was suppose to be about IAF's rule or least about Indian women... but it has been derailed right from post 6 and 7 and than on & on.

I get back to the subject and ask, why Indian women do not have equal rights as men? at least in IAF they don't!
secondly, does Indian men support this decision by IAF?

 

[faeza]

@faeza your type of thread..

hmmm .. Not starting an agrument again ....

 

[BATMAN]

He is right! Girls like you are not fit for combat jets

Combat jets are for tall, strong women.

Can weak and tiny men join it?

 

[A.Rafay]

Can weak and tiny men join it?

Sorry you also cant join!

 

[BATMAN]

Sorry you also cant join!

let's talk about women rights in India and stop worrying about me and focus on improving quality of your posts, i just wanted to make you realize

 

[Thorough Pro]

Backward, Conceited, Racist? or all of them?

Women not fit to fly combat jets: IAF boss



Women not fit to fly combat jets: IAF boss - The Times of India

 

[Levina]

@Dem!god
read the article in my post.

Oscar,
you gotta read what a female POW combat US pilot during gulf war had to say.
Major Rhonda Cornum....
She went through this ordeal....but hates to be quoted for the worst things that can happen to a woman in war.
These are her words...
"Every 15 seconds in America, some woman is assaulted. Why are they worried about a woman getting assaulted once every 10 years in a war overseas? It's ridiculous," she said. "It's clearly it's an emotional argument they use (to argue that women should be kept away from the frontlines) because they can't think of a rational one"

A Woman's Burden - TIME
(If not her book then atleast go through this article)

And is she wrong??
Theres a rape happening every hour or may be every minute in areas which are not even on war.
Lets see the chances of this happening to a female combat pilot..
1) Shooting down a fighter plane by enemy.
2) Shooting down fighter plane of in particular a female combat pilot.
3) chances of getting raped as POW....
btw most countries now treat their POWs with respect. We are not living in 40s and 50s.

Women arent as weak as you think...neither physically nor psychologically.
If a woman can bear the crushing pain of almost 200bones breaking at the time of labor then she's physically strong.
If she decides to go through it again to bear another child then she's psychologically strong.

Men underestimate women and this is an ideal example of gender apartheid.