Flight Plight

From Reuters...

Labor unions representing most of the nation's 90,000 flight attendants have urged their members to boycott a new Jodie Foster film that portrays a flight attendant and a U.S. air marshal as terrorists.

A union statement issued on Tuesday also complained that other flight attendants in the film are shown as being "rude, unhelpful and uncaring."

She said the portrayal of airline cabin crew members as evil-doers adds further insult to long-standing Hollywood stereotypes that have depicted flight attendants as sexualized bubble heads or as harsh, humorless disciplinarians.

Aw, poor flight attendants. I must wonder if they ever noticed how many movies portray lawyers as evil people...or women who pursue careers as heartless individuals, willing to use sex appeal to get to the top...or men as womenizers in any context...or Muslims as terrorists...or people from Kentucky as white trash.

I guess I must sound rude, but I'm feeling a bit unsympathetic to their cause.