I haven’t read the current United dress code policy but when my dad worked for them we all had to dress business casual, including children. We were not allowed to wear sweatpants or jeans. So while it’s true men don’t necessarily wear leggings, I’d say they fall under the sweatpants/athletic wear category.

The amount of manufactured outrage and projection in this article is appaling.

If you look at UA’s rules for pass riders (full disclosure: I am a UA pass rider), cargo shorts are permitted (khaki and bermuda shorts are OK for men and women), while lycra/spandex/form fitting leggings are expressly prohibited. So the gate agent didn’t make an arbitrary call to police one and not the other. It’s…

Leggings ban?

Unless I see evidence that they were allowing male pass riders to board in flip flops and board shorts, I’m going to go with “overblown and misconstrued.”

I’m with you on this one. There is a time and place for outrage and this is not it.

It has been reported that the passenger was flying on a pass, and was therefore required to adhere to a more formal dress code.

Yeah, so employees and their families should dress as befits the standards of the company for whom they are employed, which is also paying for them to fly? QUEL SUPRISE!!!!

When my sister worked for United, we all had and followed the dress code for people getting basically free flights. And often, she and her kids would end up in first class. I really don’t see anything wrong with this policy. The passengers using the pass should have been aware of it too and dressed appropriately. …

Zionism is about Israel being a country for Jews around the world.

It’s still a Jewish first viewpoint in which Palestine either doesn’t exist or is subordinate to Israel; and saying Muslims have the same rights in Israel now is like saying black people have the same rights in the USA as white people technically you are correct but in practice you aren’t.

This is a wonderful introduction to Rasmea and to broader issues relating to Palestinian liberation, and I’m so happy to see it here in Jezebel. I’m sure the Zio-bots are booting up to post comments as I write with long diatribes about the Hamas charter and the Mufti of Jerusalem, but as this article makes clear,…

I’m sorry that tweet is hilarious.

Yeah. It’s easy for us as younger people who maybe didn’t grow up with Bill Cosby to focus entirely on these awful things he’s done. And Dave is obviously acknowledging that, but I get how it could cause a little bit of existential pain for someone like him, the kind that might lead him to say some shit that while…

Let’s just remember that he has a valuable legacy that I can’t just throw away. I remember that he’s the first black man to ever win an Emmy in television. I also remember that he’s the first guy to make a cartoon with black characters where their lips and noses were drawn proportionately. I remember that he had a…

Patricia Mountbatten is more than a family friend. She’s Prince Philip’s first cousin, and the daughter of Philip’s beloved uncle Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Well, that may not be the best example. Assuming that you’re talking about it being a story about a gay man, the guy who wrote the original play, co-wrote the screen adaptation, and played a big role in its shepherding from stage to screen is a gay black man. Also, a major movie can’t possibly make it from point A…

Try singing the chorus to No Scrubs during the chorus. Like an example randomly is 2:00 in. “Say boy...”=”No, I...” for where you start the No Scrubs chorus. Once you sing along with it you can more easily hear how the melody and timing of lyrical delivery sounds v v similar. For example the “me” hits right at the…

I didn’t either, until I heard Ani’s rendition above and now I can’t unhear it.

Use the company for maternity benefits? He does realize that there are next to ZERO companies offering maternity benefits in this country right? Beside the right not to be fired for having to birth a human, and the government approved time off that I’m allowed, you know what I get from my company - ZIP. ZILCH. NADA.