Originally Posted by
ajGoes
Granted. However, it's important to remember that airlines in the USA used to maintain staffs of attractive, pleasant FAs by enforcing onerous rules regarding sex, age, and marital status. It was a given that an important part of the FA's job was to be attractive to men.
It still should be an important part of the FA's job. And equally important is that the FA should be attractive to women.
I'm not sure those old rules were as onerous as the current PC crowd likes to claim. My business flights back in the mid-1970s were staffed with stewardesses (yes, that was the correct term) of a broad range of ages, both married and single. The difference was that none of them was fat, sloppy or surly. And I see no reason for supporting fat, sloppy, surly flight attendants of either sex.
If anyone thinks I'm engaging in "weight-ism" here, you're right. If you're offended, push back from the table earlier. You'll live a longer and happier life, and you can save your opprobrium for really important stuff like blood diamonds and human trafficking.