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Huzzahs to Alaska Airlines.
Alaska Airlines kicked a passenger off a plane for catcalling a female flight attendant
https://www.facebook.com/amber.nelson.92372?fref=nf
Danielle Muoio
Oct 11th 2016
Alaska Airlines removed a passenger from a plane after he harassed a female flight attendant during her safety demonstration.
Amber Nelson, a passenger on the flight leaving from the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, wrote about the incident on Facebook.
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Below is Alaska Airlines passenger Amber Nelson's facebook post.
Amber D. Nelson
October 9 at 7:25pm
Today I had an experience that drove home so powerfully the way it feels to be a woman in the world today.
Before take off from SeaTac the flight attendants ran through their safety rules as they always do. Not all of us were paying very close attention. But a man in the row behind me changed all that by calling out "ooh, sexy!" in response to a female flight attendant demonstrating how to use the life vest.
He was in a middle seat with a woman on either side of him - they were clearly uncomfortable. Just in front of him, the two women in my row and I exchanged uncomfortable glances. Every woman I know has been through this kind of degrading experience. We were trapped on a plane with a guy who clearly disrespected women and saw us as his own personal entertainment.
We all looked expectantly at each other, what will we do? How will we handle this? We can't let him treat her like this because, aside from the fact that it's wrong, we all know that if he treats her like this, the five of us sitting around him are now maligned just like her. Before we could do more than glare in his direction, the flight attendant removed her vest, purposely walked up to him and said, "You need to be respectful," and started to walk back to her task. He said, "C'mon, I'm just playing with you!"
As she walked to the front of the plane, the safety instruction was abandoned and she convened a conversation with her colleagues. Tense moments passed and we saw an affable-looking man board the plane and walk our way. The offensive man behind me started saying "I didn't do anything wrong! I didn't do anything wrong!"
The airline employee asked the man to gather his belongings and exit the plane.
It was everything we could do to keep from applauding as he was led away.
I felt honored as a patron of the airline - and as a woman - because Alaska Airlines supported their staff and those of us on board who were demeaned by another passenger's juvenile and exceedingly disrespectful behavior. Thank you for taking this seriously.
Comment:
Katya Madden 2 observations. Has anyone ever seen such an incident, when there was a male attendant doing the demonstration?...
I think you might see my point
Next .. how can people be this outraged, when the person being chosen to possibly represent our entire country is so much more disgusting
Good point Katya Madden.
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Huzzahs to Alaska Airlines.
Alaska Airlines kicked a passenger off a plane for catcalling a female flight attendant
https://www.facebook.com/amber.nelson.92372?fref=nf
Danielle Muoio
Oct 11th 2016
Alaska Airlines removed a passenger from a plane after he harassed a female flight attendant during her safety demonstration.
Amber Nelson, a passenger on the flight leaving from the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, wrote about the incident on Facebook.
<snip>
Below is Alaska Airlines passenger Amber Nelson's facebook post.
Amber D. Nelson
October 9 at 7:25pm
Today I had an experience that drove home so powerfully the way it feels to be a woman in the world today.
Before take off from SeaTac the flight attendants ran through their safety rules as they always do. Not all of us were paying very close attention. But a man in the row behind me changed all that by calling out "ooh, sexy!" in response to a female flight attendant demonstrating how to use the life vest.
He was in a middle seat with a woman on either side of him - they were clearly uncomfortable. Just in front of him, the two women in my row and I exchanged uncomfortable glances. Every woman I know has been through this kind of degrading experience. We were trapped on a plane with a guy who clearly disrespected women and saw us as his own personal entertainment.
We all looked expectantly at each other, what will we do? How will we handle this? We can't let him treat her like this because, aside from the fact that it's wrong, we all know that if he treats her like this, the five of us sitting around him are now maligned just like her. Before we could do more than glare in his direction, the flight attendant removed her vest, purposely walked up to him and said, "You need to be respectful," and started to walk back to her task. He said, "C'mon, I'm just playing with you!"
As she walked to the front of the plane, the safety instruction was abandoned and she convened a conversation with her colleagues. Tense moments passed and we saw an affable-looking man board the plane and walk our way. The offensive man behind me started saying "I didn't do anything wrong! I didn't do anything wrong!"
The airline employee asked the man to gather his belongings and exit the plane.
It was everything we could do to keep from applauding as he was led away.
I felt honored as a patron of the airline - and as a woman - because Alaska Airlines supported their staff and those of us on board who were demeaned by another passenger's juvenile and exceedingly disrespectful behavior. Thank you for taking this seriously.
Comment:
Katya Madden 2 observations. Has anyone ever seen such an incident, when there was a male attendant doing the demonstration?...
I think you might see my point
Next .. how can people be this outraged, when the person being chosen to possibly represent our entire country is so much more disgusting
Good point Katya Madden.
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