Well, that was probably predictable. If the news coverage of her being the "first female ship's captain" happened near the same time as the Suez Canal incident, those two stories can easily be conflated into a "told you so" narrative to justify condescension towards women aspiring to be ship's captains.
It doesn't matter whether the correlation is real because the narrative feeds into existing stereotypes and anyone peddling it confronted with evidence to the contrary will just say that while it may be factually untrue, it still carries some underlying truth and that's what matters.
This is just a microcosm of why "fake news" has become so widespread on social media.
It doesn't matter whether the correlation is real because the narrative feeds into existing stereotypes and anyone peddling it confronted with evidence to the contrary will just say that while it may be factually untrue, it still carries some underlying truth and that's what matters.
This is just a microcosm of why "fake news" has become so widespread on social media.