A proud history of hotpants
Southwest's website happily touts its sexist 1970s ads, one of which says,
Remember What It Was Like Before Southwest Airlines? You Didn't Have Hostesses in Hotpants. Remember?
Wow. (I've taken a screenshot for posterity's sake.) The ad in question:
The 2007 version would have to read:
Remember What It Was Like Before Southwest Airlines? You Didn't Have Passengers Getting Thrown Off the Plane for Wearing Short Skirts. Remember?
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My brain hurts now. Ow.
that drives me bonkers!
I just saw a clip of the ad, and it shows how this country has changed when it comes to the tube. If airlines aired that ad today, the station and the advertizer would be fined $325,000 apiece.
As for the 23-year-old woman, now that I saw what exactly happened, I have to say that she was given a raw deal. She covered up her legs, like she should and still got booted off. She has a case -- but the House of Representatives and the Senate turned their backs on the people by passing Peter King's law which would forbid any kind of lawsuit against airliners if a complaint was filed.
I want to make sure that I am perfectly clear on this, before I get bodyslammed. What Southwest employee did was stupid, dumb, asinine, and was applying probably her moral code to one passenger. My feeling is if you can't handle things like diverisity in public places, then get thee to an insulated place like a church setting where you are allowed to say things like, because you have a grey stripe down the center of your hair, you are not allowed to come into our youth group meeting tonight. Seriously, I witnessed a pastor do this, and then also witnessed the girl's mother tell the pastor that girl's hair grew like that naturally and was not some vast Demon inspired punk rock cultist conspiracy to infiltrate the innocent teens who would just be tempted to sex drugs and rock and roll.
Now, I am going to cover my head and wait for the tomatos to fly by what I am going to say next. I found the garb this person was wearing to be inappropriate, not because of too much flesh exposed, but for physical safety reasons in case of emergencies. In fact, when I travel on airlines, I find that most of the people offend me by what they choose to wear and their calloused disregard to safety. 3/4 of them wouldn't survive a airplane fire, with their synethic fiber clothing, high heels, or for the men loafers.
For safety reasons, cotton jeans hiking boots, cotton long sleeve shirt is probably your best bet. Change at the airport.
Now, I know people are going to say-but the chances of you being hurt in an airline crash are practically nil, and I get that. Personally, even though I work in emergency services, being personally responsible is a choice, and if a person wants to wear tank top polyester stuff, and flipflops, fine her choice, not the choice of the airline in question.
So, that is all. Was what she was wearing offensive? Probably only to christatalbanists, of which the employee is probably one. Was her clothing choice safe in the slim case of emergency? Um, no not at all, but it was her choice to wear what she did, going on the information that airline safety is pretty much a given, safer in fact then getting in a car.
I want to make sure that I am perfectly clear on this, before I get bodyslammed. What Southwest employee did was stupid, dumb, asinine, and was applying probably her moral code to one passenger. My feeling is if you can't handle things like diverisity in public places, then get thee to an insulated place like a church setting where you are allowed to say things like, because you have a grey stripe down the center of your hair, you are not allowed to come into our youth group meeting tonight. Seriously, I witnessed a pastor do this, and then also witnessed the girl's mother tell the pastor that girl's hair grew like that naturally and was not some vast Demon inspired punk rock cultist conspiracy to infiltrate the innocent teens who would just be tempted to sex drugs and rock and roll.
Now, I am going to cover my head and wait for the tomatos to fly by what I am going to say next. I found the garb this person was wearing to be inappropriate, not because of too much flesh exposed, but for physical safety reasons in case of emergencies. In fact, when I travel on airlines, I find that most of the people offend me by what they choose to wear and their calloused disregard to safety. 3/4 of them wouldn't survive a airplane fire, with their synethic fiber clothing, high heels, or for the men loafers.
For safety reasons, cotton jeans hiking boots, cotton long sleeve shirt is probably your best bet. Change at the airport.
Now, I know people are going to say-but the chances of you being hurt in an airline crash are practically nil, and I get that. Personally, even though I work in emergency services, being personally responsible is a choice, and if a person wants to wear tank top polyester stuff, and flipflops, fine her choice, not the choice of the airline in question.
So, that is all. Was what she was wearing offensive? Probably only to christatalbanists, of which the employee is probably one. Was her clothing choice safe in the slim case of emergency? Um, no not at all, but it was her choice to wear what she did, going on the information that airline safety is pretty much a given, safer in fact then getting in a car.