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In reply to the discussion: Airline Gave Woman New Seat, Because Monks Cannot Sit Next To Women [View all]SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)71. I've chosen to take the side that the request should not have been accommodated.
At all.
And that even attempting to accommodate it was in fact sexist.
The monks should have been told to deal with it or leave.
As far as explaining what you ask me to explain, no. It is irrelevant from my point of view.
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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