The UAE’s First Female Fighter Pilot Called ‘Boobs on the Ground’ by Fox News Host
The fact that the United Arab Emirates' Mariam Al Mansouri is leading airstrikes against Islamic State has some social media users in a sexist uproar, but none compare with the illustrious "Five" on Fox News whose hosts are perfect evidence that misogyny isn't unique to the Middle East.The fact that the United Arab Emirates’ Mariam Al Mansouri is leading airstrikes against Islamic State has some social media users in a sexist uproar, but none compare with the illustrious “Five” on Fox News whose hosts are perfect evidence that misogyny isn’t unique to the Middle East. Stephen Colbert, ever the wordsmith, chimes in to help his fellow conservative males, or those “cocks on Fox” as Colbert likes to call them, come up with better puns such as “a pair in the air” and “a rack over Iraq,” since Al Mansouri is a fighter pilot after all.
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