Was United Airlines right to try and accommodate the Pakistani monks or is this a case of "when in Rome?"
Was United Airlines right to try and accommodate the Pakistani monks or is this a case of "when in Rome?"
What do you think?
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/09/29/only-on-2-o-c-woman-says-airline-gave-her-pre-booked-seat-away-because-2-men-didnt-want-to-sit-next-to-female/
What do you think?
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/09/29/only-on-2-o-c-woman-says-airline-gave-her-pre-booked-seat-away-because-2-men-didnt-want-to-sit-next-to-female/
Comments
If you are going to impose your religion on others, not cool.
You can say that they needed to respect their religion, but you can also say that they needed to respect her lack of their religion.
If they did not want to sit next to a woman, they should have moved, not had her moved. They successfully and very subtly imposed their religion on every one on the plane and in here.
I worship the great pumpkin but I don't care if someone spits pumpkin seeds over their right shoulder. Fuck it.
Also, as Lily mentioned, the last minute timing of the whole thing is just bad for everyone involved.
If they have special seating restrictions maybe they should buy the adjacent seats so they can control who sits there? Are they allowed to sit in the same aisle as a woman? What about in the seat a menstruating woman has sat in? Are they allowed to ride in a plane flown by a woman? Is the bathroom that is unisex okay with them?
I realize I'm using the slippery slope argument here, but at some point it has to stop and when your religion starts changing what other people can and can't do that's where it stops.
The airline could have asked her if she was willing to and if not then they could take another flight. She shouldn't have to modify her behavior because of their boogyman.