History Doesn’t Repeat Itself But It Rhymes
Longtime readers may recall our post from 2022, “Too Many Women In The Wrong Places”, which sparked a a vigorous discussion here of more than 300 comments. In that post, we quoted our friend Emil Kirkegaard’s Substack piece about the consequences of shoe-horning women into roles for which they aren’t suited. Emil mentioned the story of the Norwegian navy frigate, the KNM Helge Ingstad,
As Emil wrote there,
As women increasingly are hired into traditionally male jobs via affirmative action laws or indirect pressure via media, we see more and more incompetence. This is true whether it is academia, the military or the police. Here’s a funny example from Norway a few years ago. The Norwegian navy was recruiting more women and celebrating their great success in their own magazine Forsvarets Forum (Forum of the Defense) in April 2017.
We can read a quote from one female navigator named Emilie Jakobsen Ophus:
– Det er en fordel å være mange kvinner om bord. Det blir jo med en gang en naturlig greie og et ganske annerledes miljø, som jeg ser på som positivt.
– It is an advantage to be many women onboard. It immediately becomes a natural thing and a quite different environment, which I see as positive.
She is named a navigator on the KNM Helge Ingstad, which is, well was, a frigate. You can guess where this is going. The article also mentions that 4 out of 5 navigators onboard are female. Fast forward to only the next year and we see this headline:
Golly, we lost lots of patients as doctors learned to perform operations successfully. Should we purposely hire incompetents as doctors and let them learn by trial and error also?
This is insane.
Just look at the chic that was head of the Secret Service when President Trump was shot in Butler. Totally incompetent, but was Jill’s buddy, so, yeah, you’re hired!!