"I get upgraded," Farenthold wrote in a thread about upgrades. "It's my seat. I can give it to my wife if I like, or if I'm traveling alone the hot redhead in 12B in hopes of......"

Just because this is the kind of thing that counts as a joke or an attempt at humor or "within the standard range of normal" on FT doesn't mean that it's not sexist, fwiw.

I see this kind of casual sexism here all the time. It's very off-putting.