The meme takes another variation of a classic: one person explaining something into the ear of another bored-looking person. Unlike its predecessors, this one features a woman explaining to a man.

The meme of the the woman and the white cat, known as “Woman Yelling at a Cat,” features a split-screen of Armstrong in a heated moment from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and Smudge ...

Enter the “Girl Explaining” meme. What started as a fleeting moment ... iterations of “Bro Explaining,” or a man talking to a woman who looks like she’d rather be anywhere else.

User Vonyetta Blackson (@vonnieb11) recorded the pilot confronting the woman as she was sitting right next to her on the flight. “So this happened on my way to Cancun, Mexico for my birthday ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bonnie Tiburzi, the first woman to fly with American Airlines as a pilot in 1973. It has been edited for length and clarity. Becoming a pilot ...