Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
The story of your daughter is desperately sad and the Corporal in question is an idiot who has no idea what they were taking about.
There are still men in this World with egos, who seem to think that only 'real' men can fly big or fast jets, and for whom the thought of females or others joining their 'gang' is anathema.
I hope your daughter can be persuaded to change her mind but, I’m sorry to say, if she let one idiot Corporal change her mind maybe she wasn’t so serious in the first place. It takes 100% commitment to be successful regardless of gender/ethnicity etc.
BV
Easy to say unless it happens to you. Without knowing otherwise, when someone in authority tells you 'no, not possible'; are you likely to continue, or are you more likely to walk away from what might seem to have overtones of old fashioned Golf Clubs and Cricket Clubs etc, and take your talent elsewhere? Becoming a fast jet pilot must be hard enough without people around you being against you, either openly or passive-agressively.