Is it discriminatory that Airlines only allow pretty flight attendants?

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TheAmazingGrace said:
The idea that passengers would scrutinize their appearance that hard is pretty creepy.
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Its sort of boring sitting in the airplane, and the only ones that are really about are the stewardesses. I would suggest its a lot creepier to scrutinize your fellow passenger- particularly as the only ones you can really see are those who are real near you. Someone famous, or your best friend could be 3 seats away, but you might never see them or maybe not until the end of the flight when you are leaving.
 
Augustinian said:
Its sort of boring sitting in the airplane, and the only ones that are really about are the stewardesses.
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When I fly, I (and most of my fellow passengers) watch movies, eat, and sleep. I don’t think gazing at the stewardesses is as common a pastime as some people are making it out to be.
 
I’m not denying that you mentioned/think that they would require being “technically” qualified in addition to being beautiful.
It just leaves us differing on views on whether the beauty aspect would be comforting to passengers or not.
 
Because it’s irrelevant to the functions they serve. Are people really gonna refuse to fly if they don’t find the attendants hot enough?
 
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I would understand what you mean if the applicant was intentionally “slobbish” in their mindset,but some women are just naturally unattractive and will never look highly polished even if wearing their hair in a neat bun,wearing much makeups etc as their face may have sagged,heavily wrinkled,they may have aged a lot and their face become square and puffy etc,or their features might just be dowdy/not sharp,hair thin and wiry etc.
This is more what I am referring to.
 
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I don’t personally have any children,but I guess because just say a mother has a daughter and the daughter tells her she wants to be an air hostess in the future (or similar) and that daughter isn’t particularly attractive.
Isn’t it a bit of a cruel world if the mother would have to say to the daughter that she’s not attractive enough to be able to get that job?
Just based on the face she was born with.What sort of a message does this teach young girls in a world where they are already given a message often enough that their worth is based off their external looks.
 
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It’s commodification of women. Who cares if a qualified plain Jane is denied employment, as long as people get to ogle hot chicks?
 
In Europe I definitely would not say that flight attendants are selected to be pretty. But they definitely have to be with an age limit and a sportsy construction because in case of a bad situation they have to help.the passengers physically get rescued and even be able to block a terrorist attack. The woman in the pic of the article simply is too old to perform all that is expected from a FA today.
They also have a minimum height requirement because they have to oversee most of the plane.
It’s not a glam profession anymore and I don’t know why there is so much fuss about it tbh.
I also saw men flight attendants which says a lot about what this job actually consists of today, romantic vintage stories aside.
 
TheAmazingGrace said:
. Are people really gonna refuse to fly if they don’t find the attendants hot enough?
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No, I don’t suppose, being that people make reservations not knowing who the flight attendants are.
TheAmazingGrace said:
Because it’s irrelevant to the functions they serve.
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There are studies about the influence of physical attractiveness for creating powerful first impression on the mind that go much beyond the looks of the individual but generate positive assumptions about the person and who they are representing. But it could be that it is more about the person doing the hiring than about the company having a policy to discriminate against ugly people.

Again, the same reason why you discriminate when dating, you’re most likely going to be inclined to ask the good looking one and steer away from the cross-eyed one?
 
Gab123 said:
Again, the same reason why you discriminate when dating, you’re most likely going to be inclined to ask the good looking one and steer away from the cross-eyed one?
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Not entering into a lifelong sexual relationship with someone you don’t find attractive is reasonable. Denying someone employment because you don’t think they’re hot enough is not. I don’t know why you would think to equate the two.
 
Im guessing there must still have some glamour aspect to it though (or at least perceived this way to them) because most of the male flight attendants are gay.
At least so in Australia.
 
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Well the glam is travelling and making money out of it for sure. Some of the companies pay really well, especially the Arab ones.
The men are reluctant to it because of the social perception that is a feminine job. But the job is a mixture of a waiter and a local private cop who can put order in a restricted crowded area. If you look at it is not very feminine at all. I doubt that even the prettiest girl who is also sensible and very girlish will not be hired simply because if she is sensitive she may become rude to clients and if she is too nice she can let get things get out of control easily.
 
But are those positive assumptions even based in fact or is it something that the mind just does/makes that connection?
Eg:a person could be greeted by a very attractive woman and then form the association that she’s capable etc but in reality she might not be.

Datings different then employment, but personally,when I’m dating,I look for someone that I’m subjectively attracted to and is kind and I like their personality.
I definitely wouldn’t prefer/favour someone for a date because they looked like a male model or something.
If anything,I probably would not like to date guy like this even if he showed interest in me because I associate “these types” with superficially,vanity and even sometimes riding on their looks and neglecting their brains.
There definitely are some men and women that are shallow and superficial when dating and get all excited the more externally attracted their potential date is,but that mindset doesn’t appeal to me personally.
 
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Forgive me for being highly skeptical. For instance, I frequently see African ideas of beauty roundly dismissed unless they fit within western ideas of beauty.
 
Rozellelily said:
I don’t personally have any children,but I guess because just say a mother has a daughter and the daughter tells her she wants to be an air hostess in the future (or similar) and that daughter isn’t particularly attractive.
Isn’t it a bit of a cruel world if the mother would have to say to the daughter that she’s not attractive enough to be able to get that job?
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Make up does wonders. Thus the reason why the cosmetics industry is huge. Simply look up before and after pictures of pre makeup and post makeup.
The competition for jobs is fierce, so women are going to use make up to look pretty, because they know that it has influence…

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Eh, I don’t think flight attendants, male or female, need to be pretty.
 
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