Posted on 10/22/2019 3:23:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Air Canada announced last week that it will no longer use the phrase "ladies and gentlemen" on board its flights. The policy is part of a "commitment to respect sexual identity, diversity, and inclusion," the company said in an internal memo.
Instead of the gender-specific "ladies and gentlemen" (and "mesdames et messieurs" -- all announcements on Air Canada are in English and French), flight attendants are to address passengers as "everybody" and "tout le monde."
LGBTQ groups are delighted.
Most other people are not.
Needless to say, Air Canada never polled its passengers or its employees. The left believes in democracy only when it wins a popular vote. When it loses a popular vote, it regards democracy as defective. A perfect example is the attempt by the left in Britain and the rest of Europe to overturn the British people's vote in favor of leaving the European Union (also known as Brexit). Because the left lost, it regards that exercise in democracy as invalid.
Everyone knows that had there been a vote among Air Canada passengers -- say, all those enrolled in the airline's frequent flier program -- even liberal Canadians would have voted to retain "ladies and gentlemen." Even the infinitesimally small number of Canadians who are transgender would almost all vote to retain "ladies and gentlemen." Remember, transgender individuals strongly identify as male or female -- they simply reject their biological sexual identity. So, who, exactly, is Air Canada making more comfortable? Not the 99-plus percent of Canadians who identify with their biological sex, and not the fraction of a percent of Canadians who are transgender.
They are allegedly making the most rare of all human beings comfortable: those with no sexual identity. And not even every member of that group would vote to have Air Canada drop "ladies and gentlemen." I recently interviewed one such individual on my radio show, Professor Camille Paglia, one of the major thinkers of our time. She told me she identifies as neither female nor male but she thinks society is going mad in its rush to obliterate male and female.
The truth is no one but LGBTQ activists (including their cisgender heterosexual supporters) approve of Air Canada's change.
So why did Air Canada do this?
To feel good about itself and buy goodwill with some of the most powerful social forces in the English-speaking world: LGBTQ activist groups. Big-business leftism -- like Citibank's recent video featuring the hurt and angry reactions of young girls (around ages 10 to 13) when told women are "paid less than men" for the same work -- can best be described as moral onanism.
There are no other reasons for Air Canada's decision. Air Canada has offended nearly all its passengers -- male, female, straight, gay and transgender -- who want to be referred to as ladies or gentlemen. But this means nothing to Air Canada. And it is likely that U.S. airlines will follow suit. There is no left-wing position, no matter how radical or absurd, that hurts a business.
Only taking a conservative position can hurt a business. The owner of Chick-fil-A believes in the only sex-based definition of marriage that has ever existed -- the union of male and female -- and is boycotted, closed down or never allowed to open. That Chick-fil-A hires and serves gays, including married gays, makes no difference to left-wing haters.
Forbes reported last week that just eight days after a new Chick-fil-A was opened for business, "the Oracle shopping mall in Reading, outside London ... yanked its lease. ... The outlet in Reading, about 35 miles from London, was an effort to test the metropolitan area's waters. But, campaigners from Reading Pride, an LGBT organization, called for a boycott of the American brand because of its foundation's support of groups they say are hostile to gay rights."
Earlier this year, the San Antonio Airport banned Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant there. And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to prevent Chick-fil-A from opening in their cities -- because of the owner's views, not Chick-fil-A's policies.
Air Canada will pay no price for a decision that insults the vast majority of its clients and undermines one of the most beautiful and essential building blocks of civilization: the existence, and even celebration, of the two sexes. No company pays a price -- from Air Canada to Citibank to Gillette (whose "toxic masculinity" video was a "screw you" to nearly all its male clients) to Nike (which has appointed as its national spokesman a football player who won't stand for the national anthem and loathes America).
Such is the power and stranglehold of the left today -- in big business as much as in journalism and our schools. This is not new. As the famous quote attributed to (but perhaps not actually said by) Lenin put it, "The capitalists" -- in this case, Western businesses -- "will sell us the rope with which to hang them."
If the West sinks, you can thank big businesses like Air Canada as much as the universities and the medi
I like Dennis Prager but I think he goes a little overboard here in this piece. Air Canada won’t pay a price for this decision because normal people don’t give a damn whether you call them “ladies and gentlemen” or “everybody.”
I hate flying for a whole host of reasons. Calling me a “gentleman” after I’ve been put through TSA screening and crammed into a tiny coach seat isn’t going to change my mind about that.
Air Canada has probably made a smart business move because they’re catering to the only stunted misfits who give a sh!t about how they’re addressed in public announcements.
The most intolerant wins. The dictatorship of the small minority.
The 90% wouldn't applaud your dealing harshly with the 10% even though doing so made their lives easier.
It's time to tell our LGBTQ and sometimes Y 10% to get over themselves.
Up until 9-11 and the TSA creation, I was fairly pro-flight. I never had a bag lost, and had only one single flight cancelled while in the midst of a trip.
Over the past twenty years, I just don’t marvel at airline flights, the personnel involved, or the business practices. You have marginal legroom, and they want to charge you $25 (each way) to get real legroom. I really don’t care to watch CNN news at airports. I consider some US airports now to be third-worldish (JFK for example). I have seven airlines that I refuse to fly with because of poor personnel behavior, or marginally kept-up planes. The TSA folks are just thugs in uniform. Traveling internationally, and having to return to the US and it’s passport control....it can take up to 90 minutes to get through a stupid line and reach the bag pick-up point.
I just drive.
Always get there cheaper.
And often quicker.
Ok - I don't see why this is necessary. If there's a guy who has the mental state of he is really a woman, why wouldn't he/she hear that greeting and be satisfied with the "ladies" part ? And vice-versa for a she/he.
The extortion of corporations by the few, shame on you. The majority should show them who’s boss with a wake up call. See if they can survive on the gay, lesbian and transgender crowd
So, after practicing manners for 60 years - we now find out: “Hey you”! works just fine also….
I just read an article about a born-female that identifies as a male that is transitioning to being a female. (No - never transitioned to being a male - just thinks she is one.)
I was thinking she might get offended. But then thought, upon hearing “Ladies and Gentlemen” they might think “Hey - that’s ME!”
He didn't change anything at all about his life. He still looked like a man, acted like a man, dressed like a man, etc. But he called himself a woman so he could pay lower auto insurance premiums.
LMAO. If it's going to be a ridiculous racket, then you may as well work it to your advantage.
Should we even be allowing lunatics onboard commercial flights? Doesn’t sound wise to me.
Oh yea, Chic Fila is really hurting from a couple of poofter towns closing their stores. I believe they realize that there is more to life than money.
It won’t matter because only about .5% of Passengers on any Aircraft FREAKING IGNORE the Flight Attendant 👩✈️ while the Welcome aboard and the Safety Briefing is happening anyway. They are more interested in getting a Drink 🥃 or some other type of service from the Flight Attendant ASAP. They figure if there’s an Accident or Emergency that the Flight Attendant is there just to help their selfish a$$e$ get through it before anyone else gets help.
That’s why back when I flew I would sit at the Wing Window Exits. 1) because I was flying Standby. 2)I knew how to operate the Exit. 3) I had more legroom because the seat rows are further apart for the Exit. 4) I would have been ready to help the Passengers that LISTENED to the Briefing before the ones that ignored the Briefing got to exit.
When it’s my turn to make the announcements I just say “Welcome aboard everyone to Frontier flight # to (where ever), sit back and enjoy your flight and then go on to name the the crew and their positions.
Air Canada's passengers.
The last time we flew was on a chartered flight. Just our group. But still had to go through all the silly TSA hooey. No assigned seating but the attendants wouldn’t allow us to sit with our kids!! NEVER AGAIN.
I’ll drive, thank you. If it’s too far to drive, I don’t need to go.
Sounds perfect to Me.
You don’t have to do the Safety narrative do You ?
Nope. In case of an emergency the crew just surreptitiously don parachutes and gather by the door.
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