Deconstructing the Stewardess Anyone who is an aviation lay person knows that professional who works on board aircraft as a flight attendant. So far so good, although "flight attendant" is a name of the time of Santos Dumont. For the middle, the name is used as a joke. It is even a way of identifying who works or is familiar with aviation for "others". I would like to know from those who call women flight attendants, as they refer to men who perform the same function. Flight attendants? Araujos? lol After all, if those who work at sea are seafarers, why can't those who work at sea be Araújo? Going back a few years in the history of civil aviation, we can find the origin of the name flight attendant. To work on board aircraft, she had to be single. When she got married she had to resign. So the stewardesses were generally all young women. Today the woman can perform the function until retirement. Can marry and raise a family. That is why the name, besides being outdated, can give rise to derogatory nicknames like airmen, airguns, airmen, the latter because of the myth that "air hostesses are always available for sex". Another thing that has also changed over the years has been the role assignments on board. The flight attendant's role was that of a hostess. She welcomed the passengers, caring for everyone's comfort, and offered classy and elegant meals and drinks. This is still the main function of the Commissioners. Despite the difficulty of serving classy and elegant cereal bars, there are those who can! But in addition to this role, the flight attendant has accumulated others. She knows how to fight fire, knows first aid procedures, survival in the jungle and at sea, knows how to evacuate an aircraft in an emergency. The flight attendant is the postmodern stewardess. She is a double-shift woman like so many others in various professions. It's the guilty mother, the absent wife, the daughter who never shows up for Sunday lunch, the missing friend. No glamor. Let us leave the glamor to the mythological figure of the stewardess, who still populates the popular imagination, especially the masculine one. The one who serves you aboard the airplanes, who works at the most extravagant times but still greets you smiling when you board, the one who barely stops home is the flight attendant. Stewardess is sex shop costume.