Gay Airplane Stereotypes

The article, “How the Gay Airline Steward Became a Stereotype” was about how around World War II when flight attending jobs was available it was mainly a man’s job. However, women with nursing experiences took over and because of this reason flight attending seemed more of a woman’s job. For this reason, men who want to work as a flight attending are assumed to be gay. When flight attendant became a job, it was only men that were allowed to work. This term was gendered job segregation, which meant that a certain job was occupied with all men or all women. According to the article, flight attendant during the World War II was only a man’s job because “aviation had been associated primarily with war and engineering, and it had been considered a man’s industry”. We all know the famous “girls play with dolls and kitchens, and boys build things and play cars”, well as we get older the same mentality stays the same. Women suppose to stay at home and take care of the kids, and men suppose to do something masculine, such as things that have to do with aviation.

As we know, women are the one’s that “suppose” to be weak and emotional, while the men are emotionless and strong. This is also seen on what type of jobs a woman and a man should have. After women started becoming flight attendants, the job

This term means that men and women should behave and appear masculine if they’re a man or act feminine if they are a woman. As explained earlier, women should have certain characteristics that men shouldn’t have, which is caring and emotional. This could be explained because of the gender rules we have in our society. Therefore, in the article if a male is a flight attendant he is assumed to have those “women characteristics”, and then assumed he has to be gay. Now flight attending is not seen as engineering and war anymore, that women “obliviously” cannot be a part of, but seen as taking care of people emotionally and