this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
375 points (100.0% liked)

WomensStuff

1282 readers
351 users here now

Women only trans inclusive This is an inclusive community for all things women. Whether you're here for make up tips, feminism or just friendly chit chat, we've got you covered.

Rules…

  1. Women only… trans women are women, and transphobic or gender critical talk isn’t allowed. Anyone under the trans umbrella (e.g. non-binary, bigender, agender) is free to decide whether a women's community is a good fit for them.
  2. Don’t be a dick. No personal attacks, no aggression, play nice.
  3. Don’t hate on groups, hatefilled talk about groups is not allowed. Ever.
  4. No governmental politics, so no talk of Trump actions etc. We recommend Feminism@beehaw.org for that, but here is an escape from it.
  5. New accounts or users with few comments may have their posts removed to prevent spam and bad-faith participation.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
LadyButterfly@lemmy.world
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al
foxglove@lazysoci.al
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
foxglove@piefed.blahaj.zone
375
Pretty impressive, if you ask me (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Wren@lemmy.today to c/womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone
86 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

A student pilot successfully landed a plane by herself after her instructor jumped to his death mid-flight.

She said her instructor told her "You know what to do" before leaping from the aircraft.

The article shows a picture of the instructor next to an image of a small single engine cessna.

Comment reads: You could literally land a plane by yourself after your instructor jumps to his death mid-flight and they'd still use a picture of a man.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You clearly didn't read what I wrote with enough attention to detail.

I did not argue that the bit of text didn't have the information, but that it was encoded only in pronouns and not subject of the post. And encoding gender in pronouns does not work in German. If you had used the correct translation for student which is Student it would have been less clear. Coed (Student with female pronouns) is the word for Studentin. You wouldn't translate Bäckerin as bakress, I sincerely hope.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

May I politely ask why this has become a topic of conversation here? There's nothing in German in the post, no one is speaking German in the comments - why would the post have to cater to the way you read pronouns in German?

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't. And I have no idea why they argue that way. I just said that I didn't read the pronouns as being gender specific. This might be to do with my nationality and hence warped perception of language.

I just said that I didn't read it as being gendered at first. And get attacked for it.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have to admit I was a little confused when you first replied to me as well. Probably just a language barrier thing.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What I tried to say was that you don't need to read the pronouns in the post to understand the meaning. Hence I didn't. I don't know how to explain this in plain English.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Aaaahhhhh that makes more sense. Thanks for explaining it again