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Greg says
May 22, 2014
I’ll simply vote this one as the funniest yet of your blog posts. Not sure if you’re fishing for any rebuttals, but here’s one anyway. I do have to agree that most people outside the industry still stereotype us. Example given: you’re out of uniform and simply say to someone that you work for an airline. As a man, they almost always assume I work as a pilot. I’m fairly sure most women will still be thought to be flight attendants (or stewardesses/stews for those from the old school). Now, part of that will be because those are the two highest profile (and supposedly glamorous) airline jobs, and most people don’t give much thought to all the other behind the scenes or even front line jobs. I’m prone to chalking the rest of the assumptions up to societal biases. Yes, you might say “flight attendants are primarily on board for your safety” in which case nobody should give a flip what kind of sex they like to have in their off time. Nonetheless, I’d be willing to bet that a large percentage of passengers still see flight attendants as service providers, pilots as adventurers, mechanics as gruff fixer-uppers, rampers as gofers, etcetera. That said, as far as the environment itself being appealing or a career deterrent I think a lot of straight men would also take into account whether they really want to be stuck in a cramped metal and plastic tube for hours at a time with no chance to escape the chatter/smells/recirculating airborne diseases/come-ons and other assorted unpleasantries (to put it in politer terms than you’ve done in previous posts). What you describe above as the good aspects of the job does sound splendid though, and may be more than enough reward for some guys. Thinking just a little bit outside the box, they could get pretty much all of those same benefits by choosing another airline job. Hmmm, gate agent, for instance. Just sayin’
Erik says
May 22, 2015
Brillant !
I’m a straight guy who was looking for pros and cons to work as flight attendant !
You maybe convince me to try this out !
(Particularly advice #5)
thx
-Erik
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[…] Not just gay men become flight attendants. Stop falling into stereotypical gender rolls. It’s 2015. Of course, there is a majority demographic that works as cabin crew, but don’t let your sexuality or anyone else’s effect what you do with your life and influence your dreams so much. […]