Woman Misses Flight Because of Pro-Choice Shirt

[tinylegacies]

Yesterday I attended a meeting of pro-choice colleagues working to ensure women throughout this country get safe, compassionate abortion care. Today, I received an email from one of those colleagues, detailing the ordeal through which she was put by American Airlines on her flights home. They actually forced her to miss her connecting flight and

Comments

[tabaqui]

Wow, fuck these people very much. 'Offensive' to whom? I'd be willing to bet real money that plenty of dudebros get on flights with 'offensive' slogans on t-shirts.

[emofordino]

absolutely! the first time i flew in a plane, i was a couple seats away from a guy whose shirt said "hi, you'll do." on it. obviously not vulgar, but still pretty disgusting. i'm curious to see if a shirt saying like, "fuck planned parenthood" or something similiar would have caused a similar uproar or not. this whole situation is gross as hell.

[tabaqui]

This.

[mirhanda]

Yep this. Or a pro-choice shirt without vulgar language.

[seamouse]

off-topic sidenote on the 'hi you'll do' guy. i'd just as soon every guy who thinks that way would wear it on their shirts. easier to identify and avoid.
But back on topic, I hope American Airlines and more specifically the two crew members make a public apology enact an actionable and fair policy, and the crew members be sent to diversity training without compensation or reassigned to a position where they won't risk bumping into any actual people.

[ms_maree]

I have a feeling nobody would have noticed it without the 'fuck' in it though. For me, that word stands out like a neon sign no matter what context it is in.

[tabaqui]

Eh. It stands out a bit, but it's not that big of a deal. I find overtly Xian shirts/stickers as offensive as some, apparently, find 'fuck', but I'm sure not going to make a scene and demand someone in my general area hide/remove their shirt.

[ms_maree]

The problem is in this situation, it's hard to know if the message was the problem, or the word. There might be cases of other people being kicked off for having 'fuck' in their shirt, but it wouldn't make news if there was no political message behind it so we can't be certain.

[tabaqui]

I feel pretty confident in saying it was the message rather than the word.

[runonmoonlight]

This.

I was offended the other day when a guy was on the subway wearing a small sandwich board type sign which had anti-gay bible quotes on either side of it. But you know what I chose to do? Not look at it. Solved my problem. He got his freedom of speech, and I used my right to not pay any attention to him.