Spain's government-run Women's Institute calls Ryanair calendar sexist

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"Didn't we stop calling them stewardesses in favor of the less-discriminatory term 'flight attendants?'"

Interesting point, but there's nothing discriminatory against women in the word "stewardess." But one could argue it only discriminates against men, and there are no men in the calendar.

The angle that the calendar discriminates against men is completely absurd. The point of the calendar is to turn on men. Any man who would whine about not being included in a bikini pinup calendar would be, to put it lightly, misadjusted.

However, I am one who has traditional values. (You can begin laughing now. I don't mind.) The calendar is demeaning to women and it does in fact treat them as sex objects. There has always seemed to be something dignified about the stewardesses when I traveled, and this calendar quite literally strips them of that.

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