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Given American's densification of their aircraft, the whole Oasis toilet set up where even an elite gymnast would have problems positioning herself onto the loo, the flight delay and cancellation issues they were having even before the 737 MAX and mechanics/labor issues made that worse, disgruntled employees in other parts of the company due to the merger..... they had gone past Walmart and were already in Dollar General territory. There's chatter in the frequent flyer world about how if you don't have elite status with AA, the economy flight experience is better with the likes of Spirit and Frontier these days.
As for the doctor, I though her outfit was on the tacky side but it's nothing I don't see every day in my local beach town, or for that matter on flights to and from my part of Florida. And her rear was more covered than what was a stewardess uniform for Southwest or PSA during the 'sexy stew' era of the 1960s and 70s.
United is the real dollar store airline if you fly BE . Not AA. AA is much better .
Of course, she claims she was "policed" because of her race. AA reached out to her and her "team," apologized, and offered a full refund She doesn't think that's enough.
It doesn't appear that other passengers complained, nor should they have. Whose business is it how someone else dresses?
As for being humiliated, be sure to scroll down for her video on the USA Today post.
I am more surprised that a doctor would choose to dress like that on the flight.
The airlines should post their clothing guidelines to avoid the situations like that.
I learned long time ago that one suppose to wear long pants and long sleeves on a flight, no hills for women.
Clothes should be made of natural materials, not synthetic- it helps one survive the injury and death in case of a survivable airline incident.
A doctor must be aware of that?
I work in an upper middle class neighborhood and went to the grocery store there today. Not one person was in a romper, tube top, short shorts, or anything else they'd be ill-advised to bend over in. I do see a lot of ladies in rompers, tube tops, short shorts and the like at the store known around here as the ghetto Kroger.
When people present themselves as something they're not, then get butt-hurt when they're mistaken for the thing they appear to be, it's annoying. That's not part of this story, but I'm sure it's happened to Dr. Romper and I'm sure she blamed racism and sexism instead of the way she presents herself.
And you're point is? Oh because you live in some economic level, we all have to be mindless drones and dress like the Stepford wives??
Discrimination because she was black? Or because she was, uh, Rubenesque and falling out of her top? And I guess she should get special dispensation because she's a physician? Please.
so youl're saying anyone wearing clothes tight or too small is Ghetto?
seems like another dumb idea has found a friend.
yes, ghetto or a trailer trash. That is a perception- which we know is a reality.
You are welcome to prove otherwise.
In my mind even Kardashian are a trailer trash material in spite of being raised by a lawyer father and their millions.
It does not mean that living in a ghetto makes you a “ ghetto”. There are plenty respectable and respected poor people in bad parts of towns. “ Ghetto” is how you portray yourself to others.
I learned long time ago that one suppose to wear long pants and long sleeves on a flight, no hills for women.
Clothes should be made of natural materials, not synthetic- it helps one survive the injury and death in case of a survivable airline incident.
A doctor must be aware of that?
Supposed to? According to who?
And hopefully, those are the clothes you wear every day, as you are more likely to be involved in a car accident then you are a plane crash.
I doubt anyone complaining about her outfit live anywhere in Florida... A bit tacky, sure, but it's nothing you don't see everyday at the grocery store, on sidewalks, just about everywhere in public. And yes, may women of high economic stature dress like that here.
She was not on the plane in a professional capacity (ie, was not seeing patients), so she could wear whatever she wanted. Doctors who are younger than 75 rarely wear formal clothes in private. What was she supposed to wear on a plane, a white coat and a stethoscope? (though I have seen, more than once, people flying in and out of Boston in surgical scrubs :-). I normally don't buy accusations of racial discrimination when people are just asked to behave like any other normal person of any race..... but... in this situation, this young person (who, irrelevantly, happens to be a physician) was just wearing a tropical outfit on a vacation flight, so I don't see what the big deal was. Yes, there was a skin contact with airplane seats, but people can theoretically have fleas in their clothes too - aren't they supposed to wipe the seats with disinfectant after a flight anyway? It does not seem to me that it was warranted to pester her about that outfit, regardless of who she was. I don't know that it is a racial discrimination, but yes, it does strike me as a mild general harassment by the airline. I have a feeling that skin color wasn't a factor, it could have equally happened to a white woman.
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