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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Flight attendants and gate attendants definitely treat white women worse than white men. My friends and I have exchanged numerous stories like the ones above.

I am specifying race because I don’t know how it plays out with different races [/quote]
I’m the FA PP from upthread, and I couldn’t disagree more. I can’t speak for gate agents, but I have so many female and gay coworkers who go out of their way to deliberately screw with business men, in particular, because they are so self-important, and who are quite protective of solo women travelers. [/quote]

Sorry, FA pp, but while you and your friends may be all about “girl power” it’s simply not the experience for most of us female frequent fliers, who are regularly expected to be more accommodating and blatantly given inferior treatment to men flying in the same class of service.

Just look at the incident that went viral when the pregnant wife of a pro baseball player was told by the flight attendants she needed to get on the ground to clean up all the popcorn her child spilled on a flight. Whether you want to characterize her as entitled or not, do you really think if it was a man traveling alone with a child they would have treated him the same way?[/quote]
I mean, you’re only seeing a small sample that the media wants you to see. I fly sometimes 3-4 legs, 3-5 days a week. I can tell you FAs loathe the d*cky business man, or any man who is being a problem, child or not. People are so unbelievably entitled. [/quote]

You can't treat someone unfairly/differently and then call them "d*cky" for objecting to the unfair treatment. This goes for any race or gender. People are allowed to point out disparate treatment. A power-tripping FA got really irate at my husband this weekend for (politely) objecting to his soft-sided bag being removed from the overhead bin in favor of a hard-sided bag belonging to someone who boarded very late. My husband ultimately prevailed, but not before the FA tried to bully and threaten him. [/quote]

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