And I suspect that quite a few would disagree.
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Thank you for finally being the one to mention this. Making a cause celebre of this will result in elimination or restriction of this perk… without any correlative improvements in remuneration or benefits for employees of these massive corporations. For the passing pleasure of the internet peanut gallery a small number of people will be significantly hurt, and a larger number will have yet another benefit gouged out of their compensation package. If not immediately, then without fanfare in FY 2018… when only a few tens or dozens of well placed people remember why.
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Literally what they said in all bitterness about the whites’ drinking fountain. 
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only from the socks up!
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A restaurant requiring men to wear a jacket but women could wear anything from raggedy jean shorts to a formal gown WOULD be sexist.
I agree 100%. But that’s not what’s happening here. United’s policy imposes similar standards on both men and women.
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Why in God’s name should such a ludicrous outcome be “for sure”? Who sets this dress code policy for “Buddy Passes”? Perhaps someone who, I dunno, maybe also uses such passes themselves?
How and why is this a situation where somebody who didn’t play by the (arbitrary, obsolete, and valueless) rules is going to ruin it for everyone else? Wouldn’t it make a hell of a lot more sense for United to update this dress-code policy instead of just nuking their Pass program in a snit? Don’t the policy-setters at United occasionally enjoy the perk of giving away the occasional free ticket now and then? Are they really so married to the idea that anyone who gets a free ticket had by God better wear their Sunday best? Why would that be the case? It makes zero sense.
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Misuse of sartorial rules to restrict free air travel for employees is not on par with banning one race from access to public goods. ‘Whites only’ fountains were not a perk of employment; they were a denial of equal citizenship and an act of theft perpetrated against millions of people.
However, the fact that it’s merely a perk would be cold comfort for anyone who loses it on the basis of care-for-naught media coverage. For those who have nothing to lose to loudly & proudly ‘stand on principle’ over this issue… is too easy. Isn’t it.
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Wow, do our priorities differ. I thought my mindset about screenwriting skewed far from yours, but I have to say your description of your kids’ school fills me with crawling horror. I do hope they’re happy there and I wish them every success, but…
(Shudder) Nope. Not for us Petersens.
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I went to Catholic school and wore a uniform for 12 years. Today the only time I wear a tie is if someone died – then my one suit comes out of hiding.
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I’m a proud owner of exactly zero suits. If I end up in court, it ain’t gonna go well, so I don’t see the point anymore. 
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eh, I’m not willing to search assiduously for space campers swimming and scuba diving in the pool. But I assume it’s geared toward zero-g “training” and not traditional swimming and canoeing and that sort of thing. And that affects the usefulness of loose swimming costumes.
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I’m betting tight stretch jeans are fine though.
What’s the difference again?
And these are for adults, not little girls.
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Are you trying to say that “having to wear form-fitting clothing” follows from “being female” in the same way that “having to sleep under bridges, etc.” follows from “being poor”?
Fashion sense is gendered. Some of it is unfairly imposed by society.
Where gendered fashion sense is unfairly imposed, a non-gendered dress code is not sexist, but instead can protect people from society’s expectations. In a society where members of one gender are pressured to dress as revealingly as they can get away with, making everyone wear jeans and a t-shirt that covers the shoulders can actually help.
That said, I still don’t get why they have a dress code in the first place. They felt the need to not only write down a list of rules, but apparently they specifically instructed other employees to enforce them.
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Years ago, I got an upgrade (or free ticket, can’t remember) to first class to England due to wife being a travel agent and some deal with the airline. Stipulation was I had to wear a suit. I was fine with that.
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Do we know whether men were banned in the past for inappropriate clothing when boarding an airplane?
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I am very proud of my university for making it a rule that two different uniforms are acceptable for graduation ceremonies but making no rule at all about who may wear which.
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The rule, in its majestic authority, prohibits both men and women from wearing form-fitting lycra/spandex tops, pants and dresses.
