Originally Posted by
Clare Prop
Canute, it's not just about her. By calling herself a "bird" she has denigrated female pilots everywhere and made us all look like silly little things who can't do anything ourselves.
please see above about faux outrage.
When everybody thought she was great and not fibbing, I heard nobody complaining about her describing herself as a bird. Not a single complaint about the denigration of the fair gender. It was just considered to be self-deprecation on her part.
Now that she has annoyed everybody, people are scouring around looking for reasons to hate her more.
There is no reason to hate her at all.
She hurt nobody.
All that happened is that she got undeserved adulation and respect.
Neither of these are finite quantities. Nobody else lost theirs because of her.
The adulation and respect are gone. Job done.
I posed a few pages back about reading Jon Ronson's book about Public shaming. I highly recommend reading it. (don't care if you buy it, feel free to get it off a torrent) It might make some reconsider their actions.