I know Whirlybird - you didn't seriously expect anything else from these guys did you?
No, Whirlygig, but I live in hope.
Right, since this thread is clearly about to go the way of all other threads which dare to mention that some of us on this forum are female, let me save you all the time and summarise the next few posts for you....
1) Someone else, not having read Flytest's post because he had a kneejerk reaction to a title like "Flying Ladies", says that women should stay in the kitchen.
2) Some wag says that if women were meant to fly the sky would be pink.
3) Some idiot dredges up some old and suspect research that suggests women might be different from men, and deduces from this that they shouldn't be flying.
4) A well meaning soul says he's flown with lots of women, and they were really good pilots, honestly, some of them were even better than some of the men!
5) Someone says he once knew a woman pilot, just one, a very long time ago. And one day she burst into tears, and this obviously proves that she was a Bad Pilot, and therefore that all women are Bad Pilots.
6) Someone says very reasonably that gender makes no difference, that we use hands and feet and heads to fly, not certain other appendages...this person is completely and utterly and studiously ignored by everyone for the rest of the thread.
7) Someone says that he wouldn't want to be married to a woman pilot becasue he wants someone at home to do the ironing and take care of his kids. He then deduces from this, with utterly faultless logic, that therefore no other women should fly.
8) Someone else who doesn't read what went before points out that the sky isn't pink so women shouldn't be pilots...of course he's firmly convinced he's the first person in the whole world ever to say it.
9) Someone says that with the shortage of jobs in aviation, women shouldn't be taking them. He's been out of work for ages, and it's not fair; it couldn't be due to the fact he keeps trashing helicopters and yelling at colleagues and getting pissed, now could it? No definitely not, a woman took HIS job.
10) A new poster expresses amazement at the amount of sexism exhibited in this day and age. He is mystified. He too, is completely and utterly ignored.
And where are Whirlybird and Whirlygig? Out flying, or in the pub; they have more sense than to argue with this lot.
Right, now that's all settled, isn't it? Everybody happy?