And the spike heels give the gals that extra height necessary to reach the back of the carry-on luggage compartments
Published by Kyso Kisaen June 1st, 2007 in What Patriarchy?, Shame on you for being a womanAny gender discrimination our top courts can do, India’s top courts can do better.
An Indian court has ruled against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight.
The court said that state-owned Indian Airlines had the right to take the step in the interest of flight safety and in the face of growing competition.
When the national airlines decided to replace it’s old, fat sari-wearing dinosaurs with young hotties, the dinosaurs (some of whom were up to 5 pounds overweight and could be as old as 58, if you can imagine) naturally rose as one to ask, what the fuck? This provided the presiding judge with the opportunity to show America’s Supreme Court justices what arguing in bad faith was all about:
The Delhi High Court has ruled in favour of the airline, saying that with aircraft flying at higher altitudes, the safety of the passengers depended on the crew’s ability to perform….
“If by perseverance, the snail could reach the Ark, why can’t these worthy ladies stand on and turn the scale.”…
“I do not understand how it is any way unfair, unreasonable and insulting to their womanhood if they are asked to control their growth.”
That’s right. Only the freshest, hottest, most Westernized flight attendants can provide India’s airline passengers with the safety they demand. While they’re at it, they might want to change the uniform from those ridiculous saris to the safer and more professional ’short skirts and high heels’ that allow all modern flight attendants to demonstrate that they have the necessary ‘physical fitness’ to perform the job. Because as far as I’m concerned, nothing says safety and performance like a bunch of hot newbie flight attendants dressed like sexbots.
I want to snark, but I just can’t.
There seem to be a lot of people in the world who would be happier if they lived in the dystopian future of Logan’s Run - get to 30 and get eliminated. No one lives to be old enough to wrinkle, sag, get heavy, etc.
“Paradise”, until you have to die to keep it all going…
Where “safety” stands for “the right of males to have wank fodder every single minute of every day, because women are just commodities to ogle”.
Having clicked on the BBC article link, and based on the picture there, I’d say that anything they hope to gain in wank fodder by keeping young and slim flight attendants around is negated by the god-awful pepto picnic uniforms they make them wear.
It’s true that more weight = more money when flying HOWEVER, the planes are so huge that 5 pounds is not going to make a great goddamn. For instance, the 747 basic empty weight (that’s the weight without fuel, without seats, just the frame and some instraments) is 348,070 pounds.
And if it’s “safety” they’re worried about, then they’re using really, really stupid logic. A) The higher you are, the safer you tend to be (normally, because you have a long way to correct any problems) and b) more experience = safer. I don’t want a fresh off the class 21-year old, I want a 60-year-old who has seen it all and done it all. I want the one who when s/he says “the engines sound odd” I can go “okay” and check it out as opposed to thinking “How would s/he know what an engine is supposed to sound like”. Or when s/he goes “this customer is not acting right” I want to know it’s because the passenger is legitimately acting funny as opposed to just being paranoid.
Morons.
“I do not understand how it is any way unfair, unreasonable and insulting to their womanhood if they are asked to control their growth.”
Whoa. Irony meter just exploded there. Are the male pilots asked to “control their growth” as well, for the safety of the passengers (ha!)?