Petrus

Haha that is great bealine! And Sadly, true for some.

"Look at me!!"

PUCCI GALORE

I know Darling - so I should tweet "Phil the Fliers Zimmer Frame in overdrive again!"


Actually for you that was really witty!
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Phil the Flyer

Witty enough for a Mucci? Go on, you know you want to give me one.

gum

^

Would just like to add another interesting point of the "story" of the journalist: IMO it´s only a really silly and stupid attempt of hard selling

After a long moaning concerning a very simple and in matter of time tiny delay - and boring the reader - her one and only valid point is hidden within the last two lines.

She wants to "consult" BA in respect of the proper use of modern media.

This is indeed a horrible idea and imagination that a person communicating such a lack of empathy and knowledge should consult a well-known and famous company like BA!

[my own rant begins]
Maybe she should offer a "rant consulting" or give out advices how to overflow the customer service of competitors with senseless requests.
[rant over]

PUCCI GALORE

You have constantly moaned that having 13 of them did nothing for you. Is there nothing else I can give to put a spring in your step? It is a rotten summer in the UK but there's a NCE LGW non stop and it's no distance to SRG's hot tub. I hope that she's cleaned it since the last lot she had at that LGW staff BBQ (she thought I had not heard about this)

Sorry this has nothing to do with this ridiculous woman "journalist" are we certain that this is not Rebecca Brooks under a Nom de Biro?

Phil the Flyer

Nothing that a cosy tete-a-tete during a 36 hour CAI crew stopover between BA155/154 flights wouldn't cure.

Actually Moomba's got me down as having 14 Muccis, you must have given me one when I wasn't looking - time to update my profile.

hsmall

I am not an unqualified supporter of hers either (although I think we should be a little less rude as well). But "heteronormative" is a well known word describing a well known and not very nice condition. A good definition of the concept, in the context of unconscious bias, of which it forms a part, is that a sufferer may consciously believe in equality while simultaneously acting on subconscious prejudices they are not aware of.


BA has sometimes suffered from this, in my experience. And the issue jenbel raises with respect to the assumption of the male of the partnership being the leader is another side of the same coin. I see unconscious heteronormative bias in the difficulty some BA staff have in recognising my husband and me as a couple ("your ... errr ... friend"). The more progressive employers in the UK are training their staff about this.

So an emotive reaction to a word describing a well known and not particularly nice phenomenon, is, shall we say, not helpful. If you would like to read more about the well established concept of unconscious bias you can start here.

dark_horse

I don't doubt it, but such a reaction to her erroneous perception that she was being maligned due to reasons of gender is entirely appropriate.

Coming off the back of the long string of flimsy accusations that made up her post, trying to pin yet another apparently 'obvious' sin onto BA just smacked of desperation. And a gender inferiority complex, IMHO. Neither of those were, shall we say, helpful.

P.S.
Melons.

Deckard

It may be well known in some circles but if I Google it I get less than half a million hits as opposed to say the nearly three billion for a well known word such as "cat".

muscat

Strangely, "heteronormative" is not in Chambers Dictionary 12th Edition (published 2011), but "bollocks" is.

indianwells

Nicely put!

hsmall

Dictionaries take a while to catch up. Chambers does I am sure contain the word "homophobe", however.

muscat

As is "non sequitur"

hsmall

I agree that her writing leaves a lot to be desired and I am generally with the people that disagree with her whole approach, including her use of the word "heteronormative". The word itself however is a reasonable one, regardless of whether it was correctly used in this context or not, and I maintain my criticsm of the words "god-awfully stupid word" used in relation to it.

Globaliser

I don't think I can join in either with criticism of the word or criticism of her use of the word.

This is because until I read that article, I'd never seen the word before in my entire life, and I still haven't got the faintest idea what it means.