The United States has launched itself into conflict with Iran, and the media are fact-checking only the most important news. Just kidding.
After President Donald Trump approved the use of the U.S. military to drop bunker-buster bombs on multiple Iranian nuclear facilities, a reporter for the New York Times who covers the Defense Department got mad at the secretary of state for referring to B-2 bomber pilots as “our boys.” Seriously.
Reporter John Ismay, who previously served in the Navy (thank you for your service, John!), must have forgotten the ratio of men to women in the U.S. military when he stated on the outlet’s blog, “In the briefing, [Pete] Hegseth referred to the B-2 pilots as ‘our boys on those bombers,’ yet both men and women have been trained to fly them.”
Ismay is right: Over the past 30 years in which the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber has been around, there have been women who have served as its pilots. Out of the 500 pilots in that time, 10 of them were women.
According to Fox News’s Jennifer Griffin, at least one of the B-2 pilots who took part in the Iran mission was a woman. Amazing! You go, girl! That incredibly skilled pilot makes up part of the 17% of service members who are women.
When Hegseth made the comment as an intrigued nation watched, it didn’t cross the minds of most people that his words weren’t gender-exclusive. We were agreeing with him as he praised the acumen and bravery of our military forces.
But I bet even that female pilot would not take offense to the secretary of defense’s usage of “our boys.” In fact, given the level of brains, effort, skill, and seriousness that that role entails, this pilot is more of a feminist than the keyboard warriors currently mad on her behalf.
She has done more for women than radical leftists who donned their hand-crocheted “pussy” hats to protest the president in 2017. She has done more to help women than the liberals who remained silent after Mahsa Amini’s death in 2022 (Amini was brutally beaten by the Islamic Republic’s goons for not adhering to the proper wear of a hijab). This unknown female fighter pilot has done more than former President Barack Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, who stayed quiet in 2009 while Iranians took to the streets, risking life and limb to protest the regime.
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So, my assumption is that most people thank her for her service and don’t take offense to the secretary’s words. We’re grateful that women in our nation can refuse to wear a hijab without being beaten and can don the flight suit of the greatest nation in the world and take out bad guys with the appreciation of the president and the secretary of defense.
Most people roll their eyes at the faux rage of feminists and legacy media over these issues when, on the daily, they tell us that men can be women too and to use people’s proper pronouns. The joke is clearly on them. They’re out of touch with Americans who just want to lead safe and normal lives without being attacked by a terrorist regime or overregulated by big government.
Elisha Krauss is a conservative commentator and speaker who resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and their four children. She is an advocate for women’s rights, school choice, and smaller government.
