# A friend doesn't like telling women she was a pilot **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friend-doesnt-like-telling-women-she-was-a-pilot/541209 "2010-05-29T17:57:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 55
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friend-doesnt-like-telling-women-she-was-a-pilot/541209/55 "2010-05-30T15:14:45Z")
Have we touched at all on how gendered aviation is? It’s just as masculine a world as the military, IMO. Aviation since WW2 has become highly technical, commercial, and regulated - ie, masculine-gendered in more ways than simply flying a plane would indicate. Who knows, maybe the example of the WASPs inspired some subconscious need to reclaim the skies for the organization man. Besides the technology, flying has a set culture. Male pilots in any sector also tend to be more math/engineering focused, more politically conservative, and more socially conservative than men in the same income brackets. I would imagine female pilots would be the same way vis à vis other women. The culture of danger (real or imagined) also helps inspire a military, ie masculine, style of thinking even when one is not a veteran, and a greater portion are vets than in the general population. [Cites? My google is my cite.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gbv=2&q=aviation+and+gender&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friend-doesnt-like-telling-women-she-was-a-pilot/541209)._