The only thing I’m equating is the inexplicable barrage of comments defending shitty airlines for their shitty practices.

Well looks like I was not disappointed!

I look forward to all the commenters who will show up and say this is standard practice and that if the man didn’t want to be beaten and forcibly removed from the plane, he shouldn’t have boarded it.

The first time I got into an actual conversation with a nutjob right-wing climate change denier was at the jr college where I was adjuncting. He was a history professor and at least as old as this guy, and boy did I regret engaging. He starting bringing me articles to read every day. I finally just starting “uh, no…

Thanks for the actual scientific explanation.

Jesus horse.

But an average person witnessing this would have NO IDEA it was a pass rider and would assume (did assume) that United had lost its mind making a girl change out of leggings before boarding. And now United is just doubling down on “them’s the rules.” To the public, United looks bad. And they don’t seem to realize that.

This is the correct take.

Agree. Also, they’re so worried about the pass riders making them look bad, but this makes them look so much worse.

If our actions have inadvertently failed in this effort, we are sincerely sorry.

According to her book, she clashed with Sharon Osbourne.

Yeah that was creepy AF. Robotic.

I also don’t like the narrative that if a woman isn’t smiling all the time, she must be unhappy/bitchy/whatever. Weren’t we just defending Hillary from this nonsense?

“He was just using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife.”

Oh fuck that. Only a monster would force a woman to carry a non-viable fetus to term.

I’ve always loved Jane Eyre. I also love Villette for it’s non-typical happy ending. I relate to Charlotte Bronte’s heroines, who are awkward and a bit prickly and often feel not quite good enough. And yet are also aware of their own best qualities.

“It appreciates black cultural contributions, just not the black people who made it.”

I’m pretty sure I’ve heard this in stores as well as on the radio.

They play it all the time on my local xmas radio station in Oklahoma. I know the song well, though I didn’t know who Donny Hathaway was.

Meh— I’m ok with applauding when he moves Catholicism slightly closer to the 20th (yeah not 21st, not yet) century and calling him out when he continues old bigoted policies. Maybe not cool. But sometimes not terrible.