Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1046-20130206052632/@comment-188432-20130206071327

Josiah Rowe wrote: I thought that "flight attendant" was just a gender-neutral equivalent to "steward"/"stewardess". For what it's worth, on Wikipedia "stewardess" redirects to "flight attendant". I'm sure stewardess does redirect there, under the theory that the most common usage gets the redirect. Since more people alive today have flown on planes than taken a ship or a train, then we tend to think that all stewardesses must be air stewardesses.

The usage I'm thinking about, and the one I feel is much more appopriate to Janet's case, is that she's a member of the 's staff. I get such a strong Agatha Christie vibe outta Terror that I've never thought the Hyperion III was supposed to be a metaphor for an airplane.