KIRSTY STEWART, a pilot with the elite British Red Arrows, has received enormous acclaim since she became the first woman pilot to join the famous Royal Air Force aerobatic flying team in 2009. When she was reassigned to ground duty due to stress recently, she was the object of universally sympathetic treatment in the British press. The reports could not have been more understanding.

However, when I raised the point that it is no surprise that a woman should find high-risk flying and the accidental death of two colleages stressful, I received nasty mail from other British pilots, one of whom had many unkind things to say about domestic women and neither of whom seem to be aware of the widespread praise and sympathy for Stewart. If they were aware of it, why would they be concerned about one obscure blogger’s dissenting comments?

I omitted the one pilot’s more scathing insults. In short, he believes housewives are “parasites.”

Of course, if there had never been a long tradition of devoted mothers and wives in Great Britain (parasites to varying degrees) and if that tradition had not looked unkindly upon women performing aggressive and risky tasks such as flying fighter jets, it’s fair to assume the Royal Air Force would never have come into existence in the first place. Britain would have remained in the Bronze Age. It is precisely because the world needs empathetic mothers and wives that women should not be flying fighter planes, or at least the world should not celebrate it when they do. And that’s true even if Kirsty Stewart is a better pilot than 90 percent of the pilots who have ever flown.

In that entry, Henry McCulloch, a former fighter pilot, writes:

What neither Rivett nor Bosworth can see – and those who rule their country now want to make damned sure they never do see it – is that putting Kirsty Stewart in the Red Arrows is not some grand gesture of British patriotism, but a profoundly subversive social message. Whether she meant to be or not, Kirsty Stewart was being used as a tool of Britain’s cultural Marxists, doing her bit to upend normal social understandings in once-Great Britain.

He also quotes from Taylor Caldwell, who many years ago saw that when society puts women in men’s jobs, it brings glitter and drama to a few and drudgery and single motherhood to the many. That’s exactly what has come to pass in feminist Britain, where the illegitimacy rate is roughly 50 percent. While elite women bask in praise for breaking barriers, ordinary women struggle with the confusion of sex roles and work in subordinate dead-end jobs in uninspiring bureaucracies. For every woman pilot testing the limits, there are millions of feminism-created drones. 

— Comments —

Joe Ames writes:

“Parasites”?

A parasite sucks the life of its “host” which merely is, for the parasite, a source of food.

A housewife, a freeholding woman of at least some means, is necessary to raise a man’s children to be anything more than peasants.

The British pilot clearly has emotional issues. In fact, it does not sound like something a fighting man would say – but I suspect it was … not.

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