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Flap Over Bikini Air Hostess Calendar
AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/12/07 | AP

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.


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KEYWORDS: bikini; calendar; hostess; ryanair
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To: NormsRevenge
Miss March sure does know how to handle a hose!


41 posted on 12/12/2007 8:47:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Revolting cat!

On my patience, you take atoll.


42 posted on 12/12/2007 8:48:47 PM PST by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Wow, good looking attendants and good fares. Kinda the opposite of United’s strategy.


43 posted on 12/12/2007 8:56:07 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


44 posted on 12/12/2007 9:06:30 PM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: NormsRevenge
"If there had been men in the calendar, I'm sure there would have been no controversy."

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.

45 posted on 12/12/2007 9:20:28 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.)
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To: mwyounce

This thread is absolutely useless with ... oh. Nevermind ;)


46 posted on 12/12/2007 9:21:20 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.)
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To: Chode
" pc-wackos, feminazies, treehuggers, democRATS, leftists, socialists and communists of every stripe are ALL RATS to me regardless of country of origin. "
It all boils down to Mental Illness.
Liberalism is a certified mental illness.
47 posted on 12/12/2007 9:36:14 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: Diogenesis

Thank God for a wonderful work of art.


48 posted on 12/12/2007 9:37:22 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I can’t offer the thread any Stewardess calendars but here is a Hooters calendar.

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_dec2006/2007HootersCalendar.htm


49 posted on 12/12/2007 9:37:35 PM PST by tlb
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To: NormsRevenge

“Flap Over Bikini Air Hostess Calendar”

Wins Delacon’s “must click on” daily headline award.


50 posted on 12/12/2007 9:39:52 PM PST by Delacon
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To: Candor7

quite the boob job Ms Eliza got there


51 posted on 12/12/2007 9:39:53 PM PST by wardaddy (subservient well trained former shrew tamer for Thompson...but worried....very)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

Feminism if pure hypocrisy


52 posted on 12/12/2007 9:40:35 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: wardaddy
Well, things were getting kind of boring and well, I thought a morph might get a few laughs. Thats not a boob job, she is just inhaling.LOL.

Nice looking lady, even without the enhancements.

53 posted on 12/12/2007 9:48:27 PM PST by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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To: NormsRevenge
Seems a good time to re-post the definition for guilt ridden whiney @ssed bedwetters

Cheers,
Lloyd

54 posted on 12/12/2007 10:01:18 PM PST by Lloyd227 (and may God bless Oriana Fallaci)
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To: NormsRevenge

Ah, cheescake; what would we do without it?


55 posted on 12/12/2007 10:02:57 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: freekitty
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

56 posted on 12/12/2007 10:14:51 PM PST by ValerieTexas
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica
let's test that theory:


57 posted on 12/12/2007 10:17:14 PM PST by ValerieTexas
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


58 posted on 12/12/2007 10:22:27 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: NormsRevenge

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


59 posted on 12/12/2007 10:24:36 PM PST by wardaddy (subservient well trained former shrew tamer for Thompson...but worried....very)
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To: Diogenesis

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!


60 posted on 12/12/2007 10:26:04 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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