it seems to me that luck and the ability to persist often interact w/ structural inequality. very ripe for attribution errors. in both success and failure, how much is really due to the individual? the system? power structures/ inequality? (w/ a role for stochasticity of course)
You think men were called "a bunch of girlies"?https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/night-witches-the-female-fighter-pilots-of-world-war-ii/277779/ …
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You think this was true for the other bombers manned by well, men? "Flying only in the dark, they had no parachutes, guns, radios or radar, only maps and compasses. If hit by tracer bullets, their planes would burn like sheets of paper."https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/world/europe/nadezhda-popova-ww-ii-night-witch-dies-at-91.html …
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INB4: you start saying nobody had parachutes or something https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4ugqvh/is_it_true_russian_ww2_soldiers_were_dropped_from/d5qao3c/ …
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