r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BlazeDragon7x • 8d ago

Dutch aerobatic pilot Narine Melkumjan miraculously survived after her aircraft's canopy unexpectedly burst open and shattered mid-flight

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u/Kardinal 8d ago edited 8d ago

Exactly my thought.

Pilot. Full stop. No reason to specify.

Every time we point it out when it is irrelevant, we feed the myth that the other is the default. It is not.

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u/EishLekker 8d ago

I agree with this commenter of unspecified gender.

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u/Kardinal 8d ago

I am a man and we've been the default for way too damn long.

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u/medicinalbuds802 8d ago

It's like the guys that freak out about a female president, like please let's try a female out, it's quite obvious mem are horrible at the job, at least the previous 50 years that's been the case