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In reply to the discussion: Airline Gave Woman New Seat, Because Monks Cannot Sit Next To Women [View all]Dr. Strange
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the preferred way to deal with this is to make a big show up bumping the woman up to first class
unblock
Sep 2016
#1
Absolutely -- that was my first thought in reading the story as outlined. Bump her up
Akamai
Oct 2016
#78
Yeah, I've been around more than my share of Buddhist monks in my day
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2016
#12
Doesn't matter. People will always rewrite religion to support their bias and bigotry.
icymist
Oct 2016
#140
alternatively you could be making a sweeping generalization about a half billion people.
kristopher
Oct 2016
#115
Tell them the pilot is a woman, and put them on the next bullock cart to Houston
Donkees
Oct 2016
#63
I think the rule is that if you are the one with the religious or other restriction
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2016
#11
The whole thing is stupid, but moving two people is more efficient than moving four.
Thor_MN
Sep 2016
#15
you are rationalizing sexist behavior as efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
LanternWaste
Oct 2016
#101
Which is what I said, but that doesn't matter, because you want to be outraged.
Thor_MN
Oct 2016
#53
I've chosen to take the side that the request should not have been accommodated.
SusanCalvin
Oct 2016
#71
So you admit that you are a bully and are trying to force me to accept your viewpoint.
Thor_MN
Oct 2016
#85
there is also the idea that these sexist guys should have made their request at the
demigoddess
Oct 2016
#81
Did they upgrade her seating? I wouldn't get mad at all if I got some kind of upgrade.
Hekate
Sep 2016
#16
How do these misogynistic religious nuts think they came into being in the first place?
spiderpig
Oct 2016
#21
The monks behavior was not even canonical; shame on the airline for caving in.
Albertoo
Oct 2016
#22
we all agree, that forcing someone to move from an airplane seat they paid for due to their gender
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#26
The airlines cater to people that believe in invisible things that don't exist,
yortsed snacilbuper
Oct 2016
#28
That's bullshit! They should have been forced to pay for her plane ticket.
smirkymonkey
Oct 2016
#35
At the risk of invoking "no true Scotsman" as an (admittedly bad) Buddhist, I have to point out that
Coventina
Oct 2016
#42
I have never heard it put that way before, but you just hit the nail on the head.
smirkymonkey
Oct 2016
#54
My religious beliefs require that I be provided with an entire row
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Oct 2016
#82