I was on a plane and I heard the voice of a woman pilot coming over the P.A. system, and I was just so excited, so thrilled. I was like, “Yes, women, we are rocking it. We are now in the stratosphere.” It was all good, and then it started getting turbulent and bumpy, and I was like, “I hope she can drive.”

This starts on 4:16 of the hyperlinked Ted Talk.

Verna Myers recognizes that our unconscious biases can be dangerous. We must all look closely at our subconscious attitudes. Her suggestion is to move toward those groups which make us uncomfortable. Laugh with Myers in this Ted Talk: “How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them.”