Comments on: And the spike heels give the gals that extra height necessary to reach the back of the carry-on luggage compartments http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:49:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: appletree » Blog Archive » Friday Links: Stalin Car Edition http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42446 appletree » Blog Archive » Friday Links: Stalin Car Edition Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:12:06 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42446 [...] It’s like there’s a contest to see which country can turn the clock back the furthest on women’s rights. First, the Opus Dei wing of the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that virtually legalized gender discrimination. Not to be outdone, the Delhi High Court in India issued an overtly misogynist ruling. Here’s part of the opinion issued in a case in which flight attendants sued an airline that fired them for gaining weight: 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. [...] [...] It’s like there’s a contest to see which country can turn the clock back the furthest on women’s rights. First, the Opus Dei wing of the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that virtually legalized gender discrimination. Not to be outdone, the Delhi High Court in India issued an overtly misogynist ruling. Here’s part of the opinion issued in a case in which flight attendants sued an airline that fired them for gaining weight: 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. [...]

]]> By: Cat http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42441 Cat Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:45:32 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42441 “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!)? “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!)?

]]> By: Antigone http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42416 Antigone Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:00:01 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42416 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. 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.

]]> By: wren http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42383 wren Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:59:26 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42383 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. 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.

]]> By: micheyd http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42382 micheyd Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:50:26 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42382 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". 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”.

]]> By: MikeEss http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42362 MikeEss Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:30 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/06/01/and-the-spike-heels-give-the-gals-that-extra-height-necessary-to-reach-the-back-of-the-carry-on-luggage-compartments/#comment-42362 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 <i>Logan's Run</i> - 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... 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…

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