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

[kaelstra]

I bet they're going to hide behind the language on the shirt as their reasoning.

[crossfire]

All you have to do is look down one comment to see people doing it for them.

[maynardsong]

Agreed.

[bees_beads]

Yeah, IA.

[nyxelestia]

Also agreed. When I first read the wording of the shirt at the top of the article, my first thought was, "Okay, as bad as this looks, it was probably just because of the profanity, which isn't an unreasonable issue..." but then reading the rest of the situation (not just covering up the shirt or turning it inside out, and screwing with her connecting flight) that made me go WTF?!

[jean_prouvaire]

[zemi_chan]

Sue them.

[zemi_chan]

Are the airline employees allowed to censor their passengers in the way this woman was censored? I've only ever flown once, so I'm not familiar with airport/airline protocol, but if she was inconvenienced by the airline in an unfair way, (i.e. was "reprimanded" by the pilot in front of other passengers, missed her connecting flight, was delayed in returning home to pick up her child), wouldn't she be able to sue?

[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.