All posts tagged "Flight Attendant"

Regardless of the nit-picking in the mainstream media about whether we're in a "recession" or a "downturn" or a "recovery", for the American public, we're living in a straight-up Depression. There's 10% unemployment, and many of those lucky enough to hang on to their jobs are seeing their hours and wages cut back. Foreclosure rates are sky-high and people who are managing to hold it together stay up at nights in fear that the bottom is going to fall out any day now. Our Village idiots seem to take arguments about how it's more important to avoid taxing the rich than to keep our roads paved and our lights on. But Americans know that things are bleak.

[rebelmouse-image 24749200 original_size="475x339" expand=1]I'm way late on this story about Chuck Schumer calling a flight attendant a "bitch", mostly because I didn't feel any need to point out that it's really not so great of a man to fling that word at women to put them in their place. Like Tracy Clark-Flory pointed out, it's hard to even get that outraged, because the word "bitch" is flung around so often that you get numb, which creates this weird irony, because when a man calls you a bitch, he usually wants it to sting really bad, and it doesn't have that power because it's used so much. So, I skipped it. But M. LeBlanc has pulled me back in with her wily blogging ways. She's linked to Michael Wolff, no doubt thinking he's being daring, talking about how Schumer is some kind of hero for calling some poor woman who works shitty hours for low pay a bitch.

[rebelmouse-image 24863058 original_size="387x356" expand=1]Considering the horrible experiences I've had recently on American Airlines (multiple cancelled flights with sucktastic customer communication about them), it was fortuitous to run into Ray Balis, an active flight Attendant, at Netroots Nation 2009.