Galley Gossip: Why are so many male flight attendants gay?

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I did flight attendant hiring for United from 1993-1998. Most of you are forgetting one thing: The vast majority of male flight attendants are gay because those are the ones who more closely fit the personality characteristics for which the airlines are looking: poise, demeanor, approachability, disarming nonverbal characteristics, co-dependent personality, etc. Straight males interview for the job but are not selected. Not to generalize too much, but straight men generally work hard at NOT having poise and approachability (hyper-masculinity) and moreover have an aggressive/alpha-male personality that cannot submit to a group. It's not so much that gay men choose to be flight attendants. Rather, it's that of the thousands who interview for the job, those males with delicate features are the ones selected; and by default, they happen to be gay.

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