My Lady Wonder Wench stood up and did the wave when she heard about the female Afghan pilot who defected. Here’s what Lady Wonder Wench wrote:
All right, Louie Louie Lasses – high fives are not enough!
As you have become aware lately, this Lass has reached a limit on what middle-aged males who do not and never have understood females are saying and doing. I am actually waiting for the grey-haired physician to gently tell his middle-aged woman patient with “female problems” to start taking laudanum “to help herself”.
But while I wait, I will stand here in this place and shout with all my might “Yahoo and hurrah!” for the pilot from Afghanistan who has asked for asylum in the United States. The first FEMALE pilot of military aircraft in that country. The first lady with the guts, strength, talent and desire to be the Afghani Wonder Woman of this age.
The Wonder Woman who wants to help her country and her people – as all Wonder Women do – and who has had to run away and come here in order to remain a free woman, because the middle aged males in her country haven’t grown up enough yet.
I don’t know if she will be able to fly in the Air Force here either, but if our military boffins have any sense at all (I continue to believe there are men with sense somewhere) she will become a major part of what makes this country great (yes, it is already great).
So cross your fingers, whisper to the goddess of your choice and send nothing but good wishes to the Wonder Woman of Afghanistan.
