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American Airlines erasing lesbians

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failingatlife · 08/07/2019 23:23

Just saw this on twitter. AA are promoting pride with their 1st all LGBT crew. You'll never guess which letter is missing ShockHmm

mobile.twitter.com/AndrewTrull/status/1144626547338416128

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StopThePlanet · 11/07/2019 03:57

GirlDownUnder

Grin
GirlDownUnder · 11/07/2019 03:35

Fly American Airlines - we've got 99 problems but a bitch ain't 1.

Hahahahaha brilliant! AA marketing would love this as a strap line I'm sure Grin

AlwaysComingHome · 10/07/2019 22:18

At least the trolly service will never run out of nuts.

Erythronium · 10/07/2019 22:05

This is weird. I flew American Airlines from New York to San Francisco years ago and renamed it Transsexual Airlines in my head, because most of the air hostesses on the plane were trans. It was a very odd experience. Nothing has changed it seems.

AlwaysComingHome · 10/07/2019 20:49

Is it a bi-plane?

StopThePlanet · 10/07/2019 19:22

American Airlines flights are terrible (I will never fly AA again) poorly regulated ascent/descent speeds causing incredible pressure in the cabin, losing luggage, and poor cabin oversight.

New branding perhaps?

Fly American Airlines - we've got 99 problems but a bitch ain't 1.

FormerMediocreMale · 10/07/2019 18:44

Inclusivity is so easy these days, get a couple of the lads to Don don a wig for company photos and all sorted. No need to worry about hiring criteria anymore!

sakura184 · 10/07/2019 16:47

Well done to India for its all female crew. I've been saying for years we need to look at what Indian women are up to. Despite coming from one of the most gynocidal countries in the world they are so feminist. I love that they've got a gang of women who go around beating up rapists with sticks.

TerfOnTheWagon · 10/07/2019 16:39

Virgin did this last month, again with an all male crew wearing non-regulation uniform. My cabin crew friend was incensed, seeing it as the stereotype of "pilots are always male and hosties have to have big tits and wear loads of make up"

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 10/07/2019 13:40

If I woke up on a transatlantic flight to see either of the last two crew looming over me I'd have a coronary.

I am however heartened that the Twitter thread is almost universally "WTF", when this time last year it would have been "praise be!"

QuestaVecchiaCasa · 10/07/2019 13:27

This is a bit rich from American Airlines.

Presumably this woman didn't meet the drag queen dress code required by AA.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48935531

BoreOfWhabylon · 10/07/2019 13:05

Tanni Grey-Thompson on that thread

I've noticed that Tanni follows lots of GC accounts.

JellySlice · 09/07/2019 16:14

Surely the last two aren't aircrew? Or has the uniform always included sequinned dress and hair worn loose?

sakura184 · 09/07/2019 16:11

MagneticSingularity

Thanks Grin

Purpleartichoke · 09/07/2019 16:07

No women. If they really don’t have a single lesbian crew member in the entire organization, then they really need to review hiring practices.

What bothers me is the Supposedly professional crew out of uniform. I would applaud the company for not imposing gender norms on clothing and allowing male or female employees to wear skirts and blouses. In this case, though, the company has the crew in sequined dresses and heavy makeup. I don’t have a company manual in front of me, but I can say with 99.99999% certainty, that a female employee would not be allowed to dress like that.

MrsTerryPratchett · 09/07/2019 15:31

If you can't find an LGBT crew, don't make a bloody video about it (and look at your hiring process).

BatShite · 09/07/2019 15:16

Isn't this just a marvellous way of getting people to celebrate all male companies and such though? Just claim to be lgbt inclusive, and despite it being all blokes, you are inclusive, yay!

JoyceJeffries · 09/07/2019 15:11

So in their entire company they couldn’t find a couple of out lesbians?🤔

DpWm · 09/07/2019 13:44

To be fair it's probable all the air hostesses they had on the books weren't lesbian. It's not a prerequisite for the job.

Males who go into flight attendant jobs are more likely to be gay because it isn't a stereotypical gender-conforming male type job. More a woman's job. Lesbians make up quite a low % of the LGB as it is. Maybe the lesbians don't want to out themselves on their flight.
I understand how gay blokes could be over-represented in air hostessing.

MagneticSingularity · 09/07/2019 13:29

I know but how do you tell the difference between transwomen and drag?

It’s simple - one is a man dressed as a woman but doesn’t feel like a woman therefore is not a woman and one’s a man dressed as a woman (or not) but does feel like a woman so is a woman! And intersectional and inclusive and acceptance and alla that good stuff - And why are you even asking the question? Transphobe!

Actually, I don’t know either.

sakura184 · 09/07/2019 12:52

I know but how do you tell the difference between transwomen and drag?

KatvonHostileExtremist · 09/07/2019 09:09

Someone made a great comment about a "cockpit"

JustAnotherWoman · 09/07/2019 09:03

Appalling, how can they not see it?

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failingatlife · 09/07/2019 08:36

I don't think AA have even acknowledged the tweet. Maybe they're hurriedly finishing off their next video with an all female ground crew or something...

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SophoclesTheFox · 09/07/2019 07:30

A veritable sausage fest of diversity. Well done, that marketing team! You wouldn’t want women cluttering it up.