Virgin Atlantic Allows Male Airline Crew to Wear Skirts to “Express True Identity”
Virgin Atlantic is allowing male cabin crew and pilots to wear skirts and women to wear men’s suits so staff can “express their true identity” at work. The Telegraph has more.
The Sir Richard Branson-owned airline is dropping rules that require its employees to wear “gendered uniform options” in a U.K.-first for the aviation industry.
And the changes will not be limited to Virgin Atlantic staff. In a signal that the days of passengers being referred to as “Mr” and “Mrs” are coming to an end on flights, the carrier has changed its ticketing system to allow gender neutral markers.
Juha Jarvinen, Virgin Atlantic’s commercial chief said the airline wanted staff “to embrace their individuality and be their true selves at work”.
He added: “At Virgin Atlantic, we believe that everyone can take on the world, no matter who they are.
“We want to allow our people to wear the uniform that best suits them and how they identify and ensure our customers are addressed by their preferred pronouns.”
Historically known for its strict standards on dress code, height and age requirements, and a ban on displaying tattoos, the airline industry is evolving to better reflect changes in social norms.
I think it means woke norms. Most people aren’t excited by the awkwardness of relating to people in fancy dress (and wondering what’s motivating them) while trying to have a restful flight.
Virgin Atlantic also said it is amending communication preferences to ensure customers are addressed by their ‘preferred pronouns’ across all “touchpoints” in the airport and on-board flights. I suggest telling them that your preferred pronoun is “His Royal Highness” or some such. If readers have any other amusing suggestions for poking fun at the nonsense, add them in the comments below.
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Honestly if men want to wear dresses, I really don’t care at all, and I don’t think they should be prevented from doing so in the workplace. I think we have to draw a clear distinction between adults cross dressing and the indoctrination of children to the toxic notion that they should medicalize experimentation with gender identity. If we put it all in the same bucket, it’s so easy to conflate actual child abuse with adults doing things that are actually harmless to those around them.
Put more simply, my flight is going to be no more or less relaxing if a man on the flight is wearing a dress. Children’s lives are potentially going to be destroyed by what is happening with gender identity brainwashing in schools and other settings. Getting upset about the former makes it easier for the practitioners of this abuse to accuse us of bigotry when we try to stop the latter.
Not me. If I’m getting on plane and I see that a male pilot is all decked out in women’s clothing, I’m getting off quicker than a flash.
You’ve missed the point. The former leads to the latter. Every action has a reaction, some reactions are knee-jerk and immediate, some reactions are delayed and take place over decades. They all matter of course, but the knee jerk is easier to see and dismiss. We are currently suffering from the side effects of decades of feminism, where the traditional understanding of male and female, together with the natural, social bond of family, has been trivialised to the point of mocking. What is born from from the ideology of sameness is the idea of togetherness, and what is born from that is the lack of individuality i.e. we become less individual and become part of a mindless blob. It’s difficult to see the roots, but they’re there if you dig deep enough
Their true identity? Mentally ill.
If memory serves Sir Richard Branson spent his whole dressing up as stewardess, as we used to call, so plus ca change….
Doesn’t a uniform itself restrict the expression of one’s individual identity, more or less by definition?
The key is in the word: uniform.
Being able to chose between one particular pair of trousers and one particular skirt isn’t exactly broadening the scope for self expression, unless what you are looking to express is your grasp of reality.
I’m running out of adjectives to describe the stupidity and sheer inanity of these people.
I think this will justify some Croc Dundee style verification of gender 😉
By wearing skirts? Good luck.
I think my preferred pronoun is I’m a f**kwit. That should work beautifully in most English sentences instead of Mr.
🙂
It’s all very well, but how does a passenger know that the flight crew’s grasp of their complex machine is not underpinned by the same denial of reality?
Agreed, and I ask myself how long before this abandonment of reality spreads to the maintenance staff responsible for the safety of the aircraft.
On a more serious note, I think the true identity of these people is male or female flight attendant insofar the passengers – supposedly the customers whose well-being they’re supposed to care for – are concerned. They may well have other, truer identities in private but this shouldn’t be of concern to people who only meet them in their professional capacity.
For Virgin Atlantic read Ratners
Branson panders to the Woke lobby in bid to sell seats. I don’t think there’s too much else to say about this nonsense. It’s a typical Branson promotional stunt: get in there first, be bold, be brash, sell, sell, sell and make more spondoolies for Sir Dick. Branson really doesn’t care much about what he does as long as he makes money so he misses the point that pandering to this movement in a massive virtue signalling act only adds to the erosion of boundaries, the loss of identity, and confusion. To a child, needing some clear certainties, this must be quite unsettling and it’s the children who are most at risk in all of this.
The chap on the left end looks like a man. Not sure about the others. Not a pilot among them.
Hands on hips …. they all gay to me!!
Transvestites at work, great. Surely if they are transexuals they can transition? Why do men have to be allowed to wear a skirt?
Because you’re supposed to accept that common gay antics are normal and that whoever doesn’t employ them isn’t. This is supposed to be achieved by an unending barrage of them.
Corollary: Freddy Mercury was a lot less of a great singer than Bruce Dickinson who already isn’t.
Not long ago, a study found that the natural human reaction a man has to seeing this kind of perversion is equal to viewing grotesque images of maggots and rotting flesh. Good parents would also object to their children being subjected to this kind of degeneracy whilst travelling to their exciting holiday destination.
It’s a two-pronged attack – one is cultural terrorism, the other is to dissuade people from flying.
No worries – kilts have always been accptable 😉
Should make the “Mile High Club” interesting.
Could also be interesting if a plane crashes into the sea and there aren’t enough life rafts available. “Women and children first” will be pretty meaningless if everyone can choose to be whatever gender suits them at the time. Where do non binary and gender questioning people fit into the evacuation plan?
Bloody good point.
I (male) started wearing skirts with otherwise masculine attire when the masks came in, mandatory in closed spaces where I live. I reckon skirts are just as good as protection against viruses as masks, but are not visually as off-putting. They also have the advantage of coming up at the back 3 inches higher than even high-waisted made-to-measure trousers, which makes for vastly improved comfort. Also more practical for a sit-down wee, as we prostate oldies need.
I started wearing skirts when the masks came in, mandatory where I live. I reckon they are as good a protection against viruses as masks, but are not so off-putting. Besides they come up at the back three inches higher, which makes for vastly more comfort. Higher that is that even high-waisted made to measure trousers. Besides, for those elderly of us who have to sit to wee, more practical.