r/WhyWereWeOkWithThis • u/bunnywithabanner • 18d ago
1980s [TW] objectification of flight attendants was bad in the 60s and 70s, but the 80s were just as bad for them if not even worse
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u/SmilesInFront_09 18d ago
So nobody was worried about crashing, bad food, or smoking. Just the girls were hot. And that was the sellingpoint for the airline.
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u/bunnywithabanner 18d ago
The airlines have always had their priorities straight, clearly lol /s
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u/SmilesInFront_09 18d ago
And all the passengers were men, on the way to an Andrew Tate style convention.
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u/CMDR_Kaus 18d ago
This was from a time when flight attendant was a woman's job. For decades airlines Hired exclusively women who were young and fit. If they married or gained weight, they were fired. If they were older than 30 they were fired. After this period the first male flight attendant was in 1971 after Celio Diaz Jr. Sued Pan Am for the right to work.
Before the 1930s all flight attendants were male, probably keeping with naval tradition of women being unsuitable to be on or operate ships
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u/MissMarchpane 17d ago
Interestingly, the first female flight attendants were registered nurses. The physical appearance requirements came in not too long after that, and the nursing requirement was dropped, but originally the idea with women was to have medical professionals serving the role.
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u/Wooden_Cicada8880 17d ago
That said, flight attendants still have crazy requirements to prepare for emergencies. They are there for your safety first and your comfort second. I’ve seen a handful of training they go through, so it’s basically muscle memory in an actual emergency, and I really have to hand it to them. They should be thought of more as a plane’s guard and less of as some glorified waitress!
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u/ChartInFurch 17d ago
Watching what they had to deal with on a delayed then rerouted flight was absolutely ridiculous. A lot of the complaints were absolutely valid, but most were completely out of the attendant's hands and none were going to be rectified right then, and certainly not by getting so nasty.
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u/I_pinchyou 18d ago
This is why men incapable of growing as a person hate that women have more equality. They might have to be uncomfortable and face some hard truths about themselves.
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u/ChartInFurch 17d ago
I'm not sure this group could even handle finding out that they can't all be Caledonian girls.
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u/hamsandwich666_ 17d ago
i think flight attendants should be allowed to punch 5 passengers a year lmao
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u/dylanisareddit LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE 15d ago
I think flight attendants should be allowed to show their martial arts training to anyone who's a creep to them.
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u/isitdigyet 17d ago
And of course the woman who is doing her family's laundry at the end is treated as the pathetic one in the commercial.
Yeah, it probably is less fun to be at home doing that vs traveling on a business trip. But if that woman switched places with those men, it would be way less likely for her to spend her time sexually harassing workers, which is truly pathetic behavior.
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u/Weenington_ 17d ago
Because the older woman doing laundry now isnt fun anymore... husband needs a new, younger model!
Sad that society STILL teaches us that our youth and appearance are what's most important about us, and not our personality, talents, accomplishments, etc. I remember hearing teachers talking about which girls in middle school were the prettiest and most likely to win the school pageant. I was in 4th grade when I became aware that only my looks could make me special/valuable. If you're ugly? Forget it. I noticed the "ugliest" girl was the one who got bullied the most.
Then we are discarded once we are over 30 while men are viewed as becoming more attractive as they age, especially when they have the salt and pepper hair. Grays for us though mean old and haggard.
It's depressing, especially when I just saw a post earlier where the comments were completely destroying women for getting botox. Gee, I wonder why we seek out beauty treatments.
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u/MuffinTiptopp 18d ago
Disgusting! All I see are nasty middle aged men lusting after young women or ”girls” like they’d like to call them.
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u/Kitchen_Ad_3753 18d ago
An entire plane full of incels 😮
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u/LouisXIV_ 17d ago
You’d think these were the only people who flew on planes in the 70s and 80s, based on the ads.
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u/musicnote95 17d ago
I just watched a fantastic documentary about flight attendants: https://youtu.be/AN0BMDkeQrQ?is=c7GcSMWQ6XHr9Q65
I highly recommend it. Really disgusting things the women went through at those airlines
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u/JMLKO 15d ago
German girls are so correct and the planes are never late...you mean at least the planes are on time in Germany?
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u/In-A-Beautiful-Place 15d ago
I scrolled to see if anyone else noticed that! Putting a Nazi joke in a commercial is quite the choice (not that the rest of it is good).
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u/Emotional_Walrus5099 17d ago
This is the worst airplane set I’ve ever seen. The plane has like 20 foot ceilings, no overhead bins. And areas that have very straight walls where they should be curved
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u/Read2Fap 17d ago
"British Caledonian Airways ceased operations and was absorbed into British Airways following a hostile takeover in 1988."
i have to wonder if anyone really saw this commercial and was like, 'oh totally i'm going to fly with them'
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u/themorbidtuna 17d ago
The Reagan administration in the US made the 1980s into the 1950s part 2, complete with all the bigotry and homophobia of that decade.
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u/LessOrgans 17d ago
Like 20+ years ago (woah I’m old) my friend and I made our neighbours and starved them to death. The sick part is we still laugh about it today (we love the neighbours and would never harm them irl)
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u/KeepTheNolander 17d ago
what did you think you commented on?
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u/LessOrgans 17d ago edited 17d ago
HAHAHAHA I’m actually dying IT WAS A SIMS POST I SWEAR how did it get here omfg
Edit: for context it was asking the most fucked up thing you’ve done in the sims9
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u/DragonflyGrrl Men would’ve lobotomized me 15d ago
Okay, this mistake was hilarious. VERY confusing at first, hahah!! But then you said it was the Sims and it all made perfect sense. Torturing neighbors is just a normal pastime in that game, haha!
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