The Ryanair School of Female Objectification

ryanair_calendar.jpg

Oh if only! If only it were OK to objectify women. Say what? You’re offended by the notion anyone could endorse the objectification of women? Well why not? Women are hot. Why can’t we dress them in bikinis and lingerie and place them in a Ryanair calendar. After all, everyone does it so it must be OK, right?

Sadly, it’s not OK. But as long as members of the human race are sexually attracted to one another, there’s always going to be some leveraging of that in all forms of culture. It doesn’t make it right. It’s just the way it is. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s OK for Ryanair to dress its cabin crew in lingerie and place them in a pin-up calendar to pimp the airline. Or does it?

You’d be hard pressed to find a man (and some women) who, if he/she were being 100 percent honest, would say he/she hates to see hot women dressed in lingerie. It’s just the way it is.

Picture of Steve Hall

Steve Hall

RECENT ARTICLES

TRENDING AROUND THE WEB

A vocabulary that keeps quietly expanding well past someone’s twenties isn’t just a love of words — it’s the one measure of intelligence psychologists have trusted for a century because it tracks so closely with how a person actually thinks

A vocabulary that keeps quietly expanding well past someone’s twenties isn’t just a love of words — it’s the one measure of intelligence psychologists have trusted for a century because it tracks so closely with how a person actually thinks

Global English Editing

An Adobe survey found 69% of workers say emoji use makes a coworker seem more likable — and the reason has more to do with replacing missing body language than making a message friendlier

An Adobe survey found 69% of workers say emoji use makes a coworker seem more likable — and the reason has more to do with replacing missing body language than making a message friendlier

Global English Editing

A boundary delivered without an explanation usually isn’t coldness — it’s someone who’s learned that the explanation is exactly what invites the negotiation they were trying to avoid

A boundary delivered without an explanation usually isn’t coldness — it’s someone who’s learned that the explanation is exactly what invites the negotiation they were trying to avoid

Global English Editing

Someone who lets a frazzled stranger go ahead of them in line isn’t necessarily being generous — they’re picking up on small shifts in tone and posture that most people only catch when told to look for them

Someone who lets a frazzled stranger go ahead of them in line isn’t necessarily being generous — they’re picking up on small shifts in tone and posture that most people only catch when told to look for them

Global English Editing

The difference between the words you recognize and the words you actually use — and what that gap says about how you learned them

The difference between the words you recognize and the words you actually use — and what that gap says about how you learned them

Global English Editing

Keeping the counter clear while cooking is partly a private habit and partly a quiet form of consideration — a way of leaving the kitchen usable for whoever moves through it next, without needing to say so out loud

Keeping the counter clear while cooking is partly a private habit and partly a quiet form of consideration — a way of leaving the kitchen usable for whoever moves through it next, without needing to say so out loud

Global English Editing