Get over yourself, you are in such a bad attitude.
I'm thouroughly annoyed at this woman. She and her husband were given an ultimatum: "wear your shirt inside out or leave" (reminds me of bear whiz shirts from Jr. High. Doesn't anyone appreciate art anymore?) and they chose to exit a Southwest airplane (I assume at a stopover, but what the hey. . . ). They're now suing the airline on grounds of "it's a free country". I think that's totally unreasonable. She might as well chant "I'm rubber, you're glue!". She wears a disrespectful, trashy-ass teeshirt depicting the president, veep, and other bushies that says (as I read it) "Meet the Fuckers", and is claiming it as a political statement? I don't care what you think of our bumbling POTUS, there are kids on airplanes, and even adult-type people don't necessarily need to see dirty words in midflight. That's twelve year old shit. geez.
I don't think that's unfair that they ask her to put that away. . . This is not a matter of national security, I admit, but I hardly think anyone's civil liberties
were being infringed upon by the airline's request for "decency". Unless her outrage is becasue the person who told her to "take it off" was wearing a similarly offensive, opposing sentimented shirt. We musn't tolerate hypocricy.(oh, the possibilities :
Oh, and my favorite thing from that article is this:
"The 32-year-old lumber saleswoman said in the report that no one from Southwest said anything about the shirt while she waited near the gate at Los Angeles International Airport, nor did anyone mention the shirt as she boarded the aircraft"
. . . Could it possibly be that nobody saw the tee shirt of ONE woman at LOS ANGELES International Airport?! Nope, they just were waiting to screw her once she got to Reno. What a crazy. Thankfully, the FAA pretty much dismissed the whole incident. I'm glad this wasn't made into a national ordeal. I think we tend to jump towards indignation to quickly. Now, that's the royal AMERICAN "we", the use of which probably puts me into a category of people I would say I dislike. Ah, cynicism and generalizations. blah, blah, blah.
PS. I am intrigued by the fact that her livelihood was included in that quote. As if her trashiness had something to do with her blue-collar carreer. Oh well

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PPS. this is not in any way intended to trump sarah's post. I just felt it unnecessary to allot a waiting period. My reverence to her news and awe of the new adornments is unaffected by the announcement's location on this page. :)
10/07/2005 10:15 AM
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