Posted on 12/12/2007 7:15:50 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MADRID, Spain - Spain's government-run Women's Institute has labeled a 2008 calendar for low-cost airline Ryanair featuring bikini-wearing air hostesses as sexist and said it would be sending letters of complaint to Irish and EU authorities.
The institute, which defends women's rights, said that while the fact that the proceeds from calendar sales would go to charity was positive, the photographs "represent the stewardesses as sexual objects" and "reinforce discriminatory stereotypes."
"It is significant that that only women are used, in a sector in which there is a considerable percentage of men," the institute, which is part of the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, said in a statement.
The calendars show the hostesses — one for each month — posing in bikinis on or outside airplanes. They are sold on Ryanair flights and on the Internet for 7 euros ($10.27). Proceeds go to the Irish disabled children's charity Angels Quest.
"We're not talking about morals or nudity here, it's simply how women are portrayed," institute spokeswoman Maria Jesus Ortiz said. "If there had been men in the calendar, I'm sure there would have been no controversy."
The Spanish union of consumers FACUA raised the issue Tuesday.
Ortiz said the institute would send a letter of complaint to the Irish Embassy in Spain and to the European Union's gender equality group. Ortiz added that the institute was seeking legal advice on what further action it might be able to take.
Ryanair had defended the calendar, saying the hostesses had posed voluntarily and that it was for a good cause.
On my patience, you take atoll.
Wow, good looking attendants and good fares. Kinda the opposite of United’s strategy.
You guys are all so FUNNY!! Thanks for the relief. As a female, I object to this out of pure jealousy only. If I can’t be that young, pretty and thin then no one should.
Right. Cuz we KNOW that women wouldn't think any sexual thoughts about a guys bulge or buns or abs, pecs or biceps, or otherwise about his looks. Women are the most nonsexual creatures on planet Earth. Everyone knows that!
What drivel!
It was ok when the commercials aired about the battleaxes breaking the office copier so that the hot copier repairman could come over for a visit. It was just fine when there was a commercial about a nest of women staring out a window at a bunch of construction workers without tops across the street sweating in the sun, etc.
Sure. Right.
This thread is absolutely useless with ... oh. Nevermind ;)
Thank God for a wonderful work of art.
I can’t offer the thread any Stewardess calendars but here is a Hooters calendar.
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_dec2006/2007HootersCalendar.htm
“Flap Over Bikini Air Hostess Calendar”
Wins Delacon’s “must click on” daily headline award.
quite the boob job Ms Eliza got there
Feminism if pure hypocrisy
Nice looking lady, even without the enhancements.
Cheers,
Lloyd
Ah, cheescake; what would we do without it?
Anytime you read about a government or college funded “women’s” advocacy group, you can be sure the members aren’t going to be calendar material. You can also be sure they’ll be jealous of the ladies who are.
When I was a boy, airline food was good, tickets were high and stewardesses was women and all hot....some even wore hot pants
no cakers allowed back then
That is a very attractive young lady!
BTW, does G. Gordon Liddy still put out an annual “stacked and packed” calendar? Those were great, featuring beautiful babes armed with guns!
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