"Male doctor," "male chef, "male racecar driver" ...

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i-dont_fucking-know on January 23rd, 2021 at 01:15 UTC »

This is one of those things that always felt a little odd but I never noticed until it was pointed out. And then once it was pointed out, I noticed it EVERYWHERE

cat5stormwarning on January 23rd, 2021 at 02:38 UTC »

I work in aviation and hear all the time “female pilot” to which I respond “do you mean ‘pilot’?” or “you can say just pilot...”

ETA: The aviation field I work in has multiple crew positions. There are more women in the other crew positions than there are women in the pilot crew positions. The pilots are viewed as the highest tier and the other crew positions are viewed/treated like they are lesser (whether right or wrong, this is just the way it is). I do not see the gender qualification attached to the other crew positions as often as I see it attached to pilot. IMO this is because the other crew positions are seen as easy to achieve where pilot is seen as difficult to achieve. I only started responding with “you can say just pilot” when I noticed a difference with people describing the other crew positions without gender as a surprise or qualifier and felt it was time we started to no longer be surprised that women are pilots as well.

jpsmith45 on January 23rd, 2021 at 03:05 UTC »

She’s not wrong. It’s kind of like the first time I heard “European-Americans” to refer to white people in the US. It sounded so ridiculous to me that it made me wonder if black people feel the same way about being called “African-American”.