Beyond avoiding sexist remarks
Actually, just that would do
Seriously, the problem lies in assumptions; makes an ASS of U and ME.
Took a non-aviating male friend flying and landed at a small airfield somewhere in the East of England for the £10 bacon sarnie. My friend was greated by fellow aviators wanting to know about learning to fly helicopters. He replied by suggesting that the pilot would be the best person to ask. If this was a one-off, I wouldn't mind but it happens frequently along with questions like, "what does my husband think of me flying?".
Unfortunately gentlemen, what
some of you see as harmless banter is actually old, tired, outdated "humour" that went out of fashion at the same time as "Love They Neighbour" and Bernard Manning. You know, the jokes about map-reading and reverse parking?
I would dearly love to think we are all one in this coterie (like it?? - good word) but until some of this nonsense stops, a small faction of the GA community will feel alienated. Intelligent and witty banter is great and I'll give as good as I get, but hackneyed cliches with an underlying sense of belief in them have no place in a truly a-sexual environment.
Cheers
Whirls