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Not really. That's the word for a female steward. It lets the reader know they were females. Yeah yeah patriarchy, why are gendered words even a thing in 201
by xienze 9y ago
Not really. That's the word for a female steward. It lets the reader know they were females. Yeah yeah patriarchy, why are gendered words even a thing in 2017, let me save you the trouble.
- tyingq 9y agoFlight attendants have pushed pretty hard to get rid of the term over a long time period, and have been pretty successful with it. For reasons beyond gender.
- tgb 9y agoGoogle ngrams shows not a single occurrence of "flight attendant" in their British English corpus. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Flight+attendant%2Cstewardess%2Cattendant%2Csteward&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=6&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cstewardess%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cattendant%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csteward%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Flight+attenda...
- vertex-four 9y agoErr, yes it does? ngrams is case-sensitive by default.
- tgb 9y agoGood catch, that's what I get for working on a phone.
- anc84 9y agoThere is a pretty good chance that the term "flight attendant" has been preferred for longer than you are alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_attendant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_attendant says "By the end of the 1970s, the term stewardess had generally been replaced by the gender-neutral alternative flight attendant."