You also pay for that insurance to have your kids covered by a party that is not your employer. If you bring your children to work, they will need to be dressed in non-offensive clothing, they can’t go around kicking people or doing flips down the hall, so I would say they have to abide by rules.
Okay. Have a good one. I’m done with being condescended to by men here.
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The sluts.
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That sounds awesome.
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No, clearly, I just need to accept the word of a man, because I couldn’t possibly understand sexism.
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I would bet that if the dad presented himself for boarding dressed like that, the airline might have requested he cover up his, er, hose.
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I think you just hurt your argument here. If you paid $1000 they you can wear whatever the hell you want. However if you were given a “Company Ticket” you’re right no one has to know that you are a freeloader or a special guest, but what you will do is represent the company while on the flight and act like a model passenger which means you don’t get to choose when its given to you for free.
No PJs would have been nicer.
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A pair of leggings, folded over three times, makes a good strop for honing your kitchen knives.
Tights can also, as long as they are at least 40 denier.
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Policing the clothes of an ELEVEN year old girl.
You can make all sorts of arguments about what adults should or should not wear while being representatives of the company they work for, I don’t give a toss, but an 11 year old girl wearing leggings is appropriate in pretty much all circumstances.
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See then we should be mad at the airlines then, we should be mad at the dumb ass employee who just had to enforce the rules upon a child. The airlines has to back there employee who did nothing wrong as an employee, because the employee did there job. A horrible job that is bringing nothing but ill upon the airlines. We can’t rely on certain people to use common sense.
But hey I guess being told you cant board a plane on a free ticket as an 11 yo. Is better than…
Being slammed by a school cop on a concrete floor…
Being slammed on a side walk by a police officer at a pool party after some woman attacked you…
Being handcuffed at school…wait, she was only 5yo, scratch this one…
Being slammed onto the concrete by an officeer while riding your bike away from the scene of an accident in which you were hit by a car.
Oh to have free plane ticket problems.
Come on… advocating that an 11 year old girl isn’t told what to wear, doesn’t mean that we don’t see the issues you raised as unimportant. We can care about both.
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Yes because we can only care about one thing at a time.
Can you tell me when I’m allowed to care about out dated sexist dresscodes?
Or has the tilting at windmills and strawmen period not ended yet?
Can someone send me an updated outrage schedule, mine is still showing us being concerned about multiple things at same time, thanks!
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American has one. I used to fly using my mom’s passes and I couldn’t wear jeans. I think (part of) the rationale is that, depending on space available, one might actually be bumped up to first class. Presumably, wearing dungarees up there would make the other passengers drop their monocles, fan their handkerchiefs etc.
The other rule of flying on passes is that one does not talk about flying on passes. I sat next to someone who went on, at length, about how she was on a pass but showed up in a t-shirt, someone else gave her a dress shirt out of his carry-on, so she got on the flight after all etc. I didn’t say anything but remember thinking “this is how your relative loses all of his or her passes.”
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Well they’re not supposed to; see above… (Technically they’re not flying for free; their relative who’s affiliated with the airline is buying them a standby “non-rev” ticket at a big discount, but anyway…) These days I suppose the non-rev passengers are the ones who aren’t wearing pyjamas.
That used to be better, though. Remember “Would you care for a magazine?” “Would you like the lasagna or the chicken?” “Would you kids like a comic book and a wings pin?” And people dressed up to fly. The non-revs have to keep up that part of the tradition; the airlines, meh not so much (not in domestic-flight coach, anyway…)
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Sure, you care about both, but only get active for one. Those of us who aren’t blind notice that there are surely differences in Feminism For All as long as those “all” fit a certain demographic.
I am saying this argument against the airline is very weak and we have worse issues in the country to worry about then FUCKING LEGGINGS ON AN 11 YEAR OLD. Sure lets opine about it but when you step back and look at it; an employee fugged up and didn’t use better judgment or common sense. But come on…I digress
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I don’t know about nowadays, but I think the nautical motif started with Juan Trippe during the Clipper days, and it stuck.
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cough flip-flops cough
If I had a nickle for every time…
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I disagree. Please ask around about my very strong opinions on race relations in America, as you haven’t been around these parts. [quote=“Sho_Nuff, post:280, topic:97729”]
we have worse issues
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I agree. Many worse issues.
To be honest, if someone pulled this shit on my kid I would fucking deck them, she deserves better treatment. Hell, she would probably fucking deck them. I’d also think that both of us would call out racism when we see it, whether that’s outright violence to the more subtle kinds, like stereotyping and what have you. We might not always get it right, but I think we try.
But then again, there has been some of the subtle sexism through this thread, that people are bending over backwards to ignore. But I call that out, and I get told I’m making a big deal out of it. Me focusing on this does not in any way diminish focusing on racism.
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See…there you go with that passive aggressive B.S. of implying that me, a man, can tell you, a woman how to dress while throwing in words like sexist, and straw men. I am not telling a woman how to dress nor is the airline (Why the fug am I defending an airline, I am so not trying to do this!)
There are only two sexes on the planet…so every rule will either cover, one or the other or both. I can put a rule that says no lipstick in my hankerchief factory of all men, but the minute I hire a woman, shit I am in trouble. So you yourself are implying that a no leggings rule applies to only women?
