I am multitasking right now, typing, listening to CNN Television News, and swiveling my head around quickly at the sound of something interesting. At the same time, a newspaper is balanced beside me, permitting my eyes to shift between the keyboard and a story that caught my interest.
The story is about the Thunderbirds, the Air Force version of the Navy’s Blue Angels. Remember the Blue Angels and Chris Daly? He wanted to prevent them from flying over SF airspace.
Anyway, and this was news to me, the story I am reading is illustrated by a photo of Major Nicole Malachowski, 32, a member of the Thunderbird precision flying team. She is a graduate of the Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Management and a minor in French. After her graduation, she served as a flight instructor and a flight commander. She is now on her second tour as a member of the Thunderbirds. In the photo that accompanies the story, she looks like a female version of Tom Cruise with her Top Guns, snappy uniform, and bright smile.
Here is an official Air Force photo taken from the Thunderbirds site.
She is a very beautiful young woman, Hollywood material without question. I bring that up for one reason—to illustrate my ultimate point: beautiful women can be accomplished women without wasting their time in an illusory world of smoke and mirrors. This Air Force major proves the point.
She points up the stark contrast between a world of bimbos and the world of beautiful and accomplished women. There are many beautiful and accomplished women, some in Hollywood, true. The one Hollywood type I am thinking of is Jackie Warner of Work Out fame. She is beautiful and she is located in Los Angeles. But her accomplishments as a successful business woman tell the real story.
In the Bay Area, an attorney comes to mind: Sweet Melissa multitasks with her lawyerly duties and one of the best, most perceptive blogs around. She probably has other tasks on the burner besides these. And Sarah Phelan. With her journalistic attainments, she has a record that her 20-year old soldier-son in Iraq can point to with pride.
But the photo of Major Malachowski also brought an unsettling thought to mind. My attention jumped almost immediately to the assembly line of cloned bimbos passing through Room 200, and I wondered why some women choose the road to bimbo-ism while others choose accomplishment.
Why do so many young women want to be like the exhibitionistic group of “cool” drug and alcohol addicts such as Lindsey, Britney, Paris, Nicole, et al? Have we become a culture in which bald-headed ass wigglers, crotch-exposers, and tit jigglers are the pinnacle in the female hierarchy of achievements? Where in hell is the road less traveled these days?
I credit Major Malachowski not because she is a Thunderbird but because she has accomplished something positive above and beyond the call of the false beauty of lipstick, powder, eye liner, blush, and a host of other camouflage tools.
More power to women like her and the others I’ve named.
