The Sexist, Servile Nostalgia of Pan Am and The Playboy Club

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Esteemed lady, you got your facts a bit twisted in your scarf.
It is probably true that Playboy bunnies were probably more hired based on their looks than on their ability to serve food and drink.
Stewardesses, on the other hand, had critically important saftey functions in the airplane. Indeed, early on, only nurses were hired for this job.
For the hundreds of Stewardesses (now Flight Attendants), who were pioneers in this job, who played a critical role in developing the image of air travel as safe and professionally operated (and, who, incidentally often looked pretty good too), this article owes an apology for depicting them as airhead bimbos.

stevechipmunk of PA 1:27PM September 23, 2011

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!"
And sometimes it is so much more. Ask Bill Clinton.

Rich of CO 8:57PM September 21, 2011

After the first paragraph, this was almost tl;dr, but I decided to read it through...my reaction? QQ MOAR. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!

Cain of NY 8:25PM September 21, 2011

SO WE'RE ALL PIGS THAT LEARNED TO WALK UPRIGHT, DEAL WITH IT!!!
And do so by starting your OWN network.
Start with a low-budget cable-access TV show, knock everyone's socks off with it, then run with it to the big time and build up cred and backing to go to the next-step producer level.
But Susan Milligan won't. She'll just complain (once again) via brickbat throwing from afar, expecting other women to take up the challenge she apparently doesn't have the real-life ovaries for.
Another Susan. This one cool:
"Sullivan had no qualms about working as a bunny girl in the Manhattan Playboy Club ("I had been a waitress before and I felt I would rather show my legs and make sixty dollars a night instead of twenty"), where she recited Shakespeare while serving drinks..."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838360/bio
Shame on you Susan Sullivan for working your way through college as a Playboy bunny, and apparently having fun at it, and becoming such an accomplished actress afterwards. And you too, Anna Kournikova, for raking in all the millions from endorsements -- and particularly shame-shame-shame for the fotos of you hooking a thumb in your bikini bottom.
If most men were as Susan Milligan would have them, next she would complain how boring they are. Or maybe that's what she wants -- for everyone.
Come on ladies (outside of Milligan that is, who judging from previous posts would bristle at being called a lady just as much as she would bristle at being called not a lady) you know this is true: The bad boys, we're the ones who get your motor running.
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PS: Hey Milligan how's it working out for you in getting USN&WR to patriotically hire new additional opinion bloggers? Or was your bugle call for corporations to hire new people as a matter of patriotism just another brickbat from afar from you, for others to push for???
I don't see any new 'columnist' names on
http://www.usnews.com/opinion
And it still looks like the sexist pigs you work for employ far more male opinion bloggers than female.

dom youngross of OH 7:22PM September 21, 2011