She can't take care of the house, how will she take care of a plane?"

[trumad]

Sorry---but I spit my coffee when I read that line. :evilgrin:

A Mumbai-bound IndiGo airlines flight was delayed nearly 2 hours at the Delhi airport on Friday morning after a passenger caused a ruckus over the fact that the plane's pilot was a woman, according to Indian news site IBN Live.

A fellow passenger told the IANS (Indo-Asian News Service):

First the flight was held up by a slight fog. Then, just when we were about to fly, the doors were opened again at around 9 as a middle-aged man seated a couple of seats away from me objected to a woman piloting the plane.

The man reportedly became jittery after the pilot came the intercom to deliver a regular flight announcement and was female.

The man started grumbling, saying "I don't want to die! She can't take care of the house, how will she take care of a plane?"

Flight attendants were called and ground staff came on board to escort the man off the plane with his luggage. The whole ordeal lasted roughly 40 minutes.

An airline spokesman responded that there was a "mentally unsound" passenger on the plane.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/25/indigo-airlines-female-pilot_n_828122.html

[lukasahero]

1. Really? You found that funny?

Nice to know women are still the punchline to so many excellent jokes.

[CatWoman]

3. well

I'm a woman (I think) and I find it pretty amusing as well.

[11 Bravo]

5. I find it fucking hilarious that anyone could be so damned ignorant.

[Sentath]

6. Yes, I found it funny

Its blackly hilarious that so many doofuses still think like that.

I snickered out loud at my desk at the last line of the OP where he is described as "mentally unsound"

[ProgressiveProfessor]

14. That he was mentally unsound was the real punchline

[Joe the Revelator]

8. Must be boring to go through life so uptight

[jberryhill]

9. The "punchline" here is the idiocy of the passenger

At least that's how it reads to me.

[Taverner]

12. Funny in an 'OMG There are people this stupid' kind of way

My laugh is a nervous one, and I guess they have Teabaggers in India as well as here.

Fuck em all

[Kennah]

15. I found it funny ...

... although I was somewhat confounded with random phrases running through my head.

What? The house? It's dirty? Or disorganized? So, the plane? But aren't there are maintenance workers? And, she could get a maid. But. OMG WTF!?!?!?

[trumad]

16. I urge you to rethink your post

and then get the stick out of your ass.

[lukasahero]

18. Nice. Such a generous and well-reasoned response

But then I should have known better to say anything at all.

[Ikonoklast]

20. Get a bigger stick.

Happy now?

[Kennah]

2. Could she have been his estranged wife?

[BklynThirtyThree]

4. to be fair

I chuckled at the absurdity of this, too. I'm amazed people like him still exist.

[CatWoman]

7. remember that old commercial

with the woman frying up the bacon, and bringing it home? :)

[Bluebear]

13. No?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0_uhUhqrbk

[cynatnite]

10. I had a relative who made an ass out of himself like this every freaking holiday. n/t

[dkofos]

11. Should have waited until they were at altitude, before they let him off the plane.

[madinmaryland]

17. If I saw the "ace reporter" in the cockpit, I would probably

leave the plane.

:scared:

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. Glad women are pilots all over the world