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“Please keep stealing our stewardesses. Within two years most of our stewardesses will leave us for other men. This isn’t surprising. A girl who can smile for 5 1/2 hours is hard to find. Not to mention a wife who can remember what 124 people want for dinner. (And tell you all about meteorology and jets, if that’s what you’re looking for in a woman.) But these are not the things that brought on our problem. It’s the kind of girl we hire. Being beautiful just isn’t enough. (We don’t mean it isn’t important. We just mean it isn’t enough.) So if there’s one thing we look for, it’s girls who like people. And you can’t do that and then tell them not to like people too much. All you can do is put a new wing on your stewardess college to keep up with the demand.”
Dorotha found this here.
Comments 3
AcouSvnt — February 11, 2008
First word is "people", not "please".
Sociological Images » SEXISM IN AVIATION, THEN AND NOW — October 20, 2008
[...] Before there were flight attendants, there were stewardesses. Below are two old sexist commercials for airlines (found here thanks to AdFreak, see also this print ad): [...]
KMM — July 13, 2010
The cartoon looks like Peter Whalley's. (ex. http://sequential.spiltink.org/uploaded_images/whalley_house-792429.jpg )