alright people, here we go
September 15, 2007 by thinking girl
OK, so I’ve been in this weird haze thanks to my move - some of it wine-induced and sleep-deprived, I’ll admit! getting your life re-ordered after a move, while starting law school, is sometimes a bit overwhelming, and as many of you know, I am not much for the administrative details of life - “administrativia”, as I like to call it! However, it was kind of nice, like being in a sensory-deprivation chamber, oblivious to everything going on in the outside world…
but this snapped me out of that, and fast.
Apparently, women have to cover themselves up now in order to get on an airplane. Two women were told to adjsut their clothing because they were wearing clothing that Southwest Airlines employees found too revealing or risk not being permitted to use their airline tickets. This, after “come fly the friendly skies” of the 1970s, when “stewardesses” as they used to be called had a far different dress code of hot pants and low cut blouses, to better serve their patriarchal male customers, I’m sure.
boy oh boy am I glad those women contacted the media to tell their stories. cuz I’m sure I would have simply lost my mind, issued a stiong of profanities, and not been allowed on the plane because I appeared completely deranged and out of control. What is this, the Victorian era? Are we expected to look and act like Puritans just to get a seat on an airplane? Last time I looked, women are allowed to have jobs and actually earn their own money with which to purchase airline tickets, so what gives on the other end of actually using those tickets?
Southwest Airlines, I shame you. fascist pigs.
which is my new favourite way to end a post. in case you were wondering.
PS: this just in: Southwest is actually using this incident for publicity!!!!!!!! capitalizing on their discrimination by offering “skimpy fares” to “honour the miniskirt”! Seriously!
Unbelievable!
(Er, oh, and welcome back!)
thanks Tom!
Crikey. I may have it wrong here cos it’s hard to get a clear perspective just from that one article. But it does sound like neo liberalism at it’s worst. That is assuming of course, that it’s Muslims who the airline are trying to avoid offending.
I went to MySpace to search Kayla the first women who was asked to adjust her clothing. From my first impressions she was very proud for the fact that she was on Dr. Phil and other media stations. She seems to be more of a attention seeker than anything else. These kind of females give us females and feminists a bad name. They asked her to adjust discreetly from the other passengers. It was fair and nice for southwest to asked Kayla to adjust because they could of told her she could not ever fly southwest or that particular flight.
If you would of lost your mind on the airplane you could of been arrested or put on the no fly list which is impossible to get off. That means you could not fly on an airplane for the next 10+ years or forever. No one screws with the government especially when it comes to homeland security and taxes. Especially with the homeland security they are always looking for people to create public examples of what not to do on a airplane.
for christ sake, it doesn’t matter how a person is dressed. fair and nice? give me a fucking break.
as for your last paragraph - yeah, that’s exactly why they’re all FASCIST PIGS.
A woman’s right to dress the way she wants without being harassed: isn’t that what feminsits were talking about in 1974?
Kyla the Hooter’s girl wants us to stand up for her. Five years ago the Hooter’s girls were protesting in front of the capitol building in Washington against the right of male waiters to be employed inorange short shorts. Obviously had Kyla been a man in little orange shorts trying to get on an airplane, she would have been turned away at the security check point.