Air hostesses
May 15, 2024, 2:37 am
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May 15, 2024, 2:46 am
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May 15, 2024, 4:51 am
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Agree there. I watched the Channel 5 70s holidays thing that was on last night. Great archive footage, and material.
Other parts, the constant talking heads repeating what the narrator had just summarised and throwing in a 747-8i to the mix, not so good.
BBCs Timeshift it wasnt!
Other parts, the constant talking heads repeating what the narrator had just summarised and throwing in a 747-8i to the mix, not so good.
BBCs Timeshift it wasnt!
May 15, 2024, 5:42 am
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For those who can’t wait, here’s a report from 1950 of BOAC training:
https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/78897/
Lots more videos on the site if you search for “air stewardess”
https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/78897/
Lots more videos on the site if you search for “air stewardess”
May 15, 2024, 6:03 am
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I guess we’ll just have to watch and see.
“The story of the pioneering women who changed the world while flying it. Maligned as feminist sellouts, 'stewardesses', as they were called, were on the frontlines of a battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace. Part 1 of 2. (S)“
And to head off the posts from forum members who get triggered by the merest mention of “air hostesses”, I guess we also have to add a “Caution : May contain outdated terminology” advisory.
“The story of the pioneering women who changed the world while flying it. Maligned as feminist sellouts, 'stewardesses', as they were called, were on the frontlines of a battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace. Part 1 of 2. (S)“
And to head off the posts from forum members who get triggered by the merest mention of “air hostesses”, I guess we also have to add a “Caution : May contain outdated terminology” advisory.
May 15, 2024, 6:21 am
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This post is 5 hours old already. And not 1 single post of anyone triggered. So glad you are willing to bravely fight back against the imaginary woke mob.
May 15, 2024, 9:35 am
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(What is the acceptable term for a female member of the cabin crew?)
May 15, 2024, 9:54 am
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Anybody calling a female member of cabin crew an air hostess these days would rightly be shown the door.
I’m happy that we are all grown up enough on this forum to be able to see things in the correct historical context.
I’m quite sure that when I was very young a friend of mine was marking time until she was allowed to apply to be an air hostess although we may have just been crossing over into stewardess territory by then.
I hope I can find the documentary in question. It looks interesting.
I’m happy that we are all grown up enough on this forum to be able to see things in the correct historical context.
I’m quite sure that when I was very young a friend of mine was marking time until she was allowed to apply to be an air hostess although we may have just been crossing over into stewardess territory by then.
I hope I can find the documentary in question. It looks interesting.
May 15, 2024, 9:59 am
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Cabin Crew
Some might think that it should be Handmaidens the way that they talk to you.
When I started work I was a Stewardess That is now older than the hills, Most of the terms aboard came from the Merchant Navy.
Some might think that it should be Handmaidens the way that they talk to you.
When I started work I was a Stewardess That is now older than the hills, Most of the terms aboard came from the Merchant Navy.
May 15, 2024, 10:16 am
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"Cabin crew" is a collective noun. You can say that someone is a member of the cabin crew, but I don't think you can really say "s/he is cabin crew": to me, it's ungrammatical and awkward. Which is why, I think, most people I know still call them stewardesses, even though it's an outdated term.
May 15, 2024, 10:40 am
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"Cabin crew" is a collective noun. You can say that someone is a member of the cabin crew, but I don't think you can really say "s/he is cabin crew": to me, it's ungrammatical and awkward. Which is why, I think, most people I know still call them stewardesses, even though it's an outdated term.
