Ok, thanx... at time of posting 115 have viewed and 19 voted, with the results shown above.
There's no intention to net nanny here, just to see if a conscensus exists (it doesn't). I don't like the phrase, and so don't use it.
I was attempting to find middle ground, because it is pretty clear from a number of posts in this and other forums that there are a minority of people who don't just have a mild dislike of cabin crew, but either ignore them and their views altogether or dislike them intensely. If you don't know what I mean see
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...threadid=72184 for some really vicious statements
or
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...0&pagenumber=1 for a situation that directly involved cabin crew, where the few CC who posted are ignored comprehensively. There are plenty of other examples available.
There
is a real problem with the attitude that some people have to Cabin Crew in general (and vice versa) and in my view, we as a profession should try to deal with it. But maybe not here and not in this way