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Not again.
From World Hum (and a bunch of other sources) comes this ridiculous story of a young woman [oops, revise this: kicked off a plane] lectured by flight attendants for being, well, too freakin' hot. I guess.
Southwest Airlines apparently didn’t care for the skirt and top that 23-year-old college student and Hooters waitress Kyla Ebbert wore aboard a flight two months ago from San Diego to Tucson. Reported the San Diego Union-Tribune this week, Ebbert “had a doctor’s appointment that afternoon in Tucson, where temperatures had topped 106 all week. She arrived at Lindbergh Field [in San Diego] wearing a white denim miniskirt, high-heel sandals, and a turquoise summer sweater over a tank top over a bra.” The U-T has a photo of said outfit.
Jaunted posts the video of the scandalous Ms. Ebbert on the today show. And yeah,the outfit is kinda, well, Paris Hilton. But so what?
BlogHer's own Elena Centor takes the story apart here and provides some much needed context regarding dress codes and where they do and do not apply.
This was not the Vatican.This was Southwest Airlines -an airlines that in the past required flight attendants to wear very revealing outfits.
Speaking of revealing outfits, there's an amazing collection of Austin-Powers like pics of flight attendants on Dark Roasted Blend. I wonder if Southwest might escort the lovely lady in this photo off the plane, never mind that she's in an airline sanctioned outfit. Wow.
Let's review, shall we? Here's a list of things not to wear on airplanes:
Also, no speaking Arabic, praying, singing (okay, that one is annoying), breast feeding, saying 'buh-bye plane,'.... Tragically, I can go on and on. Google for "thrown of plane for" and you'll see hundreds of stories.
It's your call on which ejections are legit and which ones aren't - or, rather, it isn't, it's the airlines call, or the TSA's call, or maybe some random group of racist passengers. You're not in control of the situation, not one bit. You're too sexy, or too brown, or too willing to exercise your civil rights for the plane.
I'm willing to bet you know if you're Arabic Coca-Cola t-shirt is going to cause havoc or not. But I'm also willing to bet that nine out of ten of you, or maybe more, don't have the time or energy to be an ACLU test case. You're on the plane because you're trying to get to a destination, not because you're trying to make a point. So, for good measure, here's an article about what to wear on the plane.
Good luck. What gets you thrown off next is anyone's guess.
Pam blogs about travel and other adventures at Nerd's Eye View.
