A first gen Chevy Bolt. Has some modern safety features I’d want for my kids and you can pick up a used one for ~$10k after that $4k credit. It is a no-brainer.

Plus, it has birth-control seats!

Can we just, like, not be dicks to each other? This is so very, very stupid. Even small children would tell you this is stupid. And now a man is dead because (alleged) adults’ egos were bigger than a $10 bill.

I saw this video, and the only caveat I’d have is that there’s a cut in it. I’m curious about how long the cut lasted.

You did try to give this old white man the benefit of the doubt and I love that for you. But the second part of your sentence started with “but,” which negates the first half. BUT he didn’t mean any malice in it. “So it’s okay and why is everyone taking offense,” was the takeaway from that sentence.

I’m also Black, and you’re not the first one I’ve met who values their proximity to the power structure (whiteness and maleness) so highly that they jump at the chance to handwave away bigotry at every opportunity. You know what they say (or maybe you don’t): all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.

“And yet you’re ready to shoot me”

“everyone has a form of unconscious bias”

Mixing up countries in addressing someone is different than using an anachronistic term that denotes gender bias in the first place to someone who is significantly more qualified than the title uttered to speak about the literal hearing she is sitting in where she will be providing her expertise and information.

That’s everybody though, you and me, everyone has a form of unconscious bias. Is it a bad thing? In some rare circumstances it can help keep you safe, but we know the old saying of making assumptions. As a person of color I get it. I had an older white man come up to me at our local cars and coffee and say “I’ve seen…

Stick with me here... The malice isn’t in the intent, but in the ignorance of the assumption.

And is a boomer with 12 kids.

“Well, sir. The first thing I do when I wake up every day at 3AM is make breakfast for my husband, who’s actually a pilot. Then I shower and get myself ready for the day which takes about 3 hours. I put on my Pan Am uniform, which features a mini skirt, blouse, white ascot, and white gogo boots with fishnet stockings.…

So, she mentions up front that she was from the Pilot’s Association International.

Are you saying that who she was representing was not on the agenda for the hearing? Are you saying that whoever prepped these questions just saw that it was a woman representing the Pilot’s Association, and automatically assumed that…

Seriously, women pilots, male flight attendants, women doctors, male nurses*, what is this world coming to?!?!

The minute I read the headline, I knew Dornink had to be a white male Republican. Confirmed. Further research reveals that he and his poor wife of record have twelve children.

I think this just highlights a whole different set of criticisms for these hearings. That they consist of a team of interns writing questions for a Senator who then reads scripted talking points for the camera with the same intelligence as Anchorman. 

“I don’t know why I said that”

She says pilot FOUR times. And then he calls her a stewardess which is still not a correct term for flight attendant.

If he wants to run with stereotypes, let me just say he looks EXACTLY like I expected.