The Ryanair School of Female Objectification

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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.

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