Flier Claims Southwest Attendant Played Fashion Police

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Well if it happens every day I would think people would complain. I have never seen it happen on any flight or heard about it happening to anyone I know. I don't think she was seeking publicity, I think she was angry about it and I think she had a right to be. I also think perhaps it caused her stress, especially since she was going to a doctor's appointment. I don't know what that was about and that's her private business, but given the situation it must have been very difficult and embarrassing for her.
 
She was still allowed to fly.
Others that have been kicked off flights include: people wearing anti-Bush t-shirts, imams, a coughing girl, a smelly man, and others. I've personally witnessed two men kicked off my flight for being overly rude to a gate agent.
 
MsPurrl said:
I can't help wondering: in the second picture, here: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20638463/
it looks like the "waistband" of her skirt is very, very low on her "hips." If that's where the skirt began, maybe she had the bottom of the tank top pulled up, under the shrug, with her midriff bare all the way below her belly button, almost to the fur line? I could see where *that* might earn a "get-off-of-my-plane" card! :wink:

I am not saying that the airline is right, BUT, I think MsPurrl is the first to make what to me is a pretty obvious point. The news articles I have seen have only told the story from the 23 year-olds' prespective - not the airline (and good on the airline for NOT adding to this story). When she was in the airport, was her skirt pulled down that far? Was her shirt and "sweater" (because, as far as I am concerned, that IS NOT a "sweater") in that exact position - or was it truly revealing entirely too much?

Indeed...the 70s STEWARDESS outfits were outrageous. Sexists. Even the ads for airlines of the time (pictures of these STEWARDESSES in these outifts with taglines like "Fly Me") were offensive. But, that was the seventies. We do not see those today (unless you are flying Hooter's Airlines).

Again, I am not going to defend the flight attendant or the airline, but it is possible that we are not getting the whole story.
 
joyfulgirl said:
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A question for those with young girls...would you feel comfortable on a flight with the flight attendants dressed this way? Do you think this sends an appropriate message?

HOW is it different from this?

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I truly believe if a man was dressed in a short skirt like that, he would have been asked to put some sort of clothing on too.

Finally, she said she was "humiliated." She works for Hooters! How can you work for Hooters and feel humiliated dressed like that?

This is a case of "I have finally figured out how to get some good exposure for myself."
 
zonelistener said:

Again, I am not going to defend the flight attendant or the airline, but it is possible that we are not getting the whole story.

I wonder if there were any complaints.

If someone complained that she had no underpants on?
 
Basically this story is yet another example of the New Puritanism and the PC thought police in action.
 
zonelistener said:


Again, I am not going to defend the flight attendant or the airline, but it is possible that we are not getting the whole story.

Looking at the outfit in the second picture, I think you and MsPurrl may be right. We just don't know exactly how she was wearing it that day. Had she been wearing it differently and in a more revealing way, I may have just rolled my eyes and forgot about it but some people could have been offended.

I'm a little sick of seeing buttcrack on the girls who make my coffee at my favorite local espresso house who wear their jeans too low (and the wrong size), their tank tops too short, and their flabby bellies and buttcracks hanging out, and I've often thought it was inappropriate attire for work or for anything except for being out at night with your friends. I only posted the 70s picture because it was amusing and ironic but of course you're right, this isn't the 70s anymore (thank God).
 
zonelistener said:


A question for those with young girls...would you feel comfortable on a flight with the flight attendants dressed this way? Do you think this sends an appropriate message?

HOW is it different from this?


How is it different?

She isn't working for the airline -- that's how it's different.

Honestly, once she's in her damned seat no one's really going to see her anyway, so I don't get the fuss. Even if someone does think she's dressed inappropriately all that person has to do is look somewhere else (which shouldn't be hard on an airplane).
 
indra said:


How is it different?

She isn't working for the airline -- that's how it's different.

Honestly, once she's in her damned seat no one's really going to see her anyway, so I don't get the fuss. Even if someone does think she's dressed inappropriately all that person has to do is look somewhere else (which shouldn't be hard on an airplane).

Yes.

I still argue that even if, let's say that when she sat down basically nothing was left for the imagination--give her a freaking blanket and be done with it!

Usually, I'm the first to say there's probably another side to the story that we're not hearing, but in this case I can't imagine what that other side would be. . .

Are there "fine print" restrictions on how you dress when you fly? I can totally see the no shirt, no shoes, no service rule applying but I struggle to see how a skimpy outfit is cause for attempted denial of service.

And as for the argument that she "got the attention she was seeking" are we actually suggested that she threw on her sleaziest outfit in the hopes of creating a scene so she could be on national television? Come on.
 
unico said:
i can't believe she is escorted out and asked to change (even though she was let back on the plane) and NOBODY does a DAMN THING when those little monsters are kicking at my seat from behind and screaming their heads off.

I totally agree!!!
 
BonoVoxSupastar said:


Puritanism and PC? Do those really even go along with each other?
Yes, the anti-pornography movement could be viewed in such a manner. When groups take a stand against sexism and objectification (not an unreasonable position) by demanding censorship outright regardless of the consensuality of involved parties they are brushing up alongside the views and actions of religious conservatives.

There is generally a convergence between different groups with a disdain for freedoms even if they arrive at that point for entirely different reasons.

In this instance though airlines should be allowed to maintain dress codes even if they are arbitrary and unfair; at least she gets some airtime out of it.
 
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deep said:


I wonder if there were any complaints.

If someone complained that she had no underpants on?

Are 3 posts on her supposed lack of undies really necessary? It's kind of disturbing, given your age, that you are fixated on this enough to make 3 comments on it. And also given your life quest to never judge people. Well, black folk, anyway. Guess that doesn't apply to women, huh, deep.
 
We expect our professionals to dress a certain way. Obviously her dressing this way and the flight attendant dressing this way are two things which bear no similarity to one another in the comparison context we are discussing.

It is certainly common sense to dress yourself appropriately when going to church or to court. But people wear all sorts of things on flights, especially those heading to tropical places. I think they look like morons and I enjoy watching them shiver on the flight where the temperature is below that which can sustain human life (no wonder we need those disgusting polyester blankets), but I wouldn't insist on them changing their clothes.
 
If you keep them unbuttoned so I can see your chest fur, then yes.
 
A_Wanderer said:

There is generally a convergence between different groups with a disdain for freedoms even if they arrive at that point for entirely different reasons.



Andrea Dworkin and James Dobson have lots in common, and not just a fear and hatred of and for sex.
 
I don't see how this is really much different from a nice restaurant or nightclub having a dress code - no jeans, sneakers, etc. I think people perceive airplanes as a public domain or something. And we only saw the "after" photo.
 
Would interferencers have a problem sitting right next to a 20 someting male wearing bright coloured biking shorts that leave nothing to the imagination?
 
U2FanPeter said:
Would interferencers have a problem sitting right next to a 20 someting male wearing bright coloured biking shorts that leave nothing to the imagination?

What's next, are you going to place size limits on spandex?

You going to require baggy clothing on planes?

Some of you are being ridiculous...
 
ntalwar said:
I don't see how this is really much different from a nice restaurant or nightclub having a dress code - no jeans, sneakers, etc.

If Southwest had a dress code they intended to enforce, they should have had it posted all over everything you sign off on when you buy your ticket, as well as publicly where everyone can see it.
 
U2FanPeter said:
Would interferencers have a problem sitting right next to a 20 someting male wearing bright coloured biking shorts that leave nothing to the imagination?
I would,..but not in the way that she should wear something different. It would me make uncomfortable because the chance to be called a sexual frustrated pig when i looked is very big i guess.
 
joyfulgirl said:


If Southwest had a dress code they intended to enforce, they should have had it posted all over everything you sign off on when you buy your ticket, as well as publicly where everyone can see it.

What do you consider minimum dress-code?
 
U2FanPeter said:
Would interferencers have a problem sitting right next to a 20 someting male wearing bright coloured biking shorts that leave nothing to the imagination?

I can't bear sitting next to someone doused in heavy perfume/colgogne (especially on 12 hour transPacific flights) but I wouldn't expect them to be escorted off the plane and told to shower up first.
 
ntalwar said:
I don't see how this is really much different from a nice restaurant or nightclub having a dress code - no jeans, sneakers, etc.


So Southwest has a publicly posted dress code for everyone to comply with?
 
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