Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
“You’ll never fly with the RAF as you’re a girl”
My dad said that so I told him about Julie Ann Gibson, Jo Salter, Kirsty Moore, Jules Fleming, Helen Seymour, Victoria Turner, and all of the (at least) 121 women who have been RAF pilots. Do not forget Michelle Goodman (DFC!).
Personally I don't think people should need "role models" and I would happily have been number one if it happened to matter, not that it does. I also agree that nobody should let themselves be put off by one statement, as one prominent youtube fast jet person puts it, make them tell you no.
But in the end, that idiotic statement comes from person who is wrong 121 times and 32 years out of date given Julie Gibson qualified in 1991.