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    Kris-the-Needlessly-DefiantJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    2/08/16 4:40pm

    Having to wear a skirt every day sounds like torture! Every time I look at a pair of tights they get a run in them.

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      jinniKris-the-Needlessly-Defiant
      2/08/16 4:45pm

      Ugh. I was thinking the same thing about pantyhose. Tights would be a blessed relief next to the old-school covering they are likely compelled to wear!

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      mazzieDKris-the-Needlessly-Defiant
      2/08/16 4:51pm

      I will say, I almost always wear skirts and dresses cause I find it easier, but oh man, do I need new tights. We have smartphones but we can create a pair of tights that doesn’t get a run the third time I wear them???

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    mscoffeeJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    2/08/16 4:44pm

    “Inveterate women employees”? Do you mean “veteran”? That phrasing seems weird.

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      jinnimscoffee
      2/08/16 4:47pm

      Invertebrate women employees?

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      Pessimippopotamusmscoffee
      2/08/16 4:47pm

      I read it as invertebrate women employees and was briefly confused.

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    notyourseitherJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    2/08/16 4:44pm

    This is for all the assholes who plug their ears every time we talk about sexism and internalized misogyny in the media or anywhere else.

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      PersnicketyPantsnotyourseither
      2/08/16 5:31pm

      That sign needs to be laminated and passed out to everyone of like mind.

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      BabyPowderPersnicketyPants
      2/08/16 11:51pm

      As flooring for the elephant dung flukes. Oye

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    LuaJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    2/08/16 4:45pm

    The policing of what women are and aren’t allowed to wear has been on my mind a lot lately. Recently I overheard my sister-in-law talking about what “sluts” teenage girls are; with their booty shorts and bra straps and throwing themselves at her poor, innocent 15 year old son. HAHAHAHHAAHHA lady you’re fucking delusional and a shitty mom. She was saying this to my other sister-in-law who has two daughters and she has one herself! If she is ever stupid enough to say something like that to me I will destroy her. But it made me really sad because I know my bright, spunky, vivacious toddler will soon be judged based on what she is wearing rather than her character and most of the time there will be very little I can do to protect her.

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      jinniLua
      2/08/16 4:50pm

      But you can be the bearer of healthy psychology, and messages of self-esteem!

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      saltyladyv4Lua
      2/08/16 4:54pm

      Just wait. I know a ton of middle school moms who are filled with faux outrage about what the girls are wearing. Even the moms who have girls. They were going off about it at book club, and they’re very glad that our new assistant principal is cracking down. Sometimes I feel like I’ve been sucked into a tornado and plopped into bizarro-suburbia.

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    EllaCindersJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    2/08/16 4:36pm

    Ahem, “pants” in Britain does not mean the same thing as it does in the US. Your headline, in British English, is saying that flight attendants have won the right to wear underwear.

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      Crystal Palace is not a gay discoEllaCinders
      2/08/16 4:40pm

      But this is a North American publication with a like audience.

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      jinniEllaCinders
      2/08/16 4:48pm

      Precisely.

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    mollymlf05Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
    2/08/16 4:36pm

    Now if only they’d get rid of the high heels requirement. My feet hurt just thinking about wearing heels at a job where I’m on my feet for 8+ hours.

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      PersnicketyPantsmollymlf05
      2/08/16 5:39pm

      And who notices heels on an airplane anyways? You can’t even see their feet in those narrow aisles.

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    TheBurnersMyDestinationJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    2/08/16 4:42pm

    This makes me appreciate the fact that my job uniform is pants and boots. And not only that, that male and female uniforms are the exact same. Turns out there is a lot less fighting over the thermostat when you are all allowed to be properly covered.

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      jinniTheBurnersMyDestination
      2/08/16 4:51pm

      Great point.

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      shelwoodTheBurnersMyDestination
      2/08/16 4:58pm

      When I first got hired as a fire inspector years back, a job I got in part because I was at the time the Chief of the local volunteer fire department, my boss really, really, really wanted my uniform to be a shirt and skirt. Not only did doing inspections require frequently climbing ladders and crawling on the floor, it is impossible to put on firefighter’s turnout pants over a skirt. I told him no way would I wear a skirt and got uniform pants. He still brought it up every three months for the entire five years I worked there because “it would look soo much better!”

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    Slay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
    2/08/16 4:43pm

    This article *seriously* reads like a time warp.

    (Envisions some really old, really foolish ceo/administrator now foiled pipe dream to leave a backwards, discriminatory legacy. Haha misogynist fogey!)

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      alter_egoJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
      2/08/16 5:07pm

      So I wear skirts or dresses every single day. I have for almost 6 years now, and I recently had to wear pants to work for safety reasons, and it meant going to the store to buy a pair of pants, because I don’t even own them any more. That being said.

      I am a HUGE anomoly. That’s a crazy standard to have for your employees, and honestly, I can’t even really understand the motivation behind it. It’s not like the skirts are particularly sexy.

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        FallenJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
        2/08/16 5:15pm

        All should read up at femininityinflight.com and elsewhere. The pant/trouser fight pales next to the marriage ban rule, the mandatory termination after hitting 32 or 35, and so on. (There is likely still a rule about visible scars,’lest someone think you got it in a plane crash.)

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          PersnicketyPantsFallen
          2/08/16 5:42pm

          Are you serious, they have a marriage ban rule? And terminate after they reach 32 or 35? Jesus. Still?

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          BorgCubedPersnicketyPants
          2/09/16 8:25am

          Not anymore. Here's a timeline at the page the commenter above mentioned: http://femininityinflight.com/laborhistory.h...

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