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Put your titty up, Adele.
You know what, fine. A couple gets a little frisky on a plane, tries to join the mile-high club, and they get arrested for violating the Patriot Act! …maybe, just maybe, that’s not the most asinine result from something that’s happened in the friendly skies. Even if all the canoodling couple did was to make the other passenger “uncomfortable.” (News flash, Southwest Airlines: That fat man you sat next to me on my most previous trip to Vegas — who had to raise the seat arm in order to fit into his seat, thus squishing me into my own seat arm – that was “uncomfortable,” and I didn’t see Mr. Obesity get charged with a Patriot Act violation.)
So, I’ll let that little absurdity slide.
But, c’mon! You can’t boot a woman from a flight because she’s breastfeeding. For the Love of Baby Jesus. She was seated next to a window on one side, next to her freakin’ husband on the other and her breast wasn’t even exposed! Of course, so what if it was? State laws allow for breastfeeding in public, and there’s nothing in those laws that says you have to be discrete. But, no matter, says a spokesman for the airline: “She was asked to use a blanket just to provide a little more discretion, she was given a blanket, and she refused to use it, and that’s all I know.”
If a woman wants to expose her breasts so that she can provide nutrition and sustenance to her child, you let that woman expose her breasts. I’ve never in my life seen a plane go down because a woman decided to breastfeed her child.
The woman, Emily Gillette, has filed the complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission. And I hope she drives Delta right back into bankruptcy again.
(* For the curious, the headline quote comes from the brilliant 1993 film, Kalifornia)
