This isn't a male/female thing. That may be the topic, but it's not the issue. It's probably more accurate to say "Dear religious extremists of the world..."

welcome to AIRISIS we beheaded to Mecca so fasten your necks on the tray tables and thank you for CRUCIFLYING AIRISIS

My thoughts are this:

where to you draw the line between accommodating someone's faith and interfering with a flight crew

Just the other day I delivered some groceries to an orthodox Jewish family. I rang the bell no one answered I could hear people talking inside. So I called this number I had this guy answers the phone he told me to leave it in front of the door. Basically his wife was home but I guess she was forbidden from opening…

You know, I just got finished saying to myself this week (after traveling from the UK to the US) that airlines are such a great example of international cooperation. They all operate under the same rules and regulations without much issue. All for increased safety and efficiency.

So we should ignore broad civil rights violations and gender-based discrimination just because it's "their culture"? Where do you draw the line? I guess we should ignore racial or ethnic genocide in other countries because that's just "the culture," right?

ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE!!! ARGLE BARGLE YARGHHHHH!!

Perfect response. I tried similar jokes with a group of women from Jezebel. Needless to say there was a lot of excessive defensiveness, endless self-justification and much parsing of words. Many long paragraphs were written beginning with : "I am NOT being unreasonable!" etc. And nobody got the sarcasm either.

If your religion forbids you from using a service the way it is offered, then maybe you shouldn't use that service, instead of disrupting it for us heathens.

Interesting to see "religion" and "accomplishing" in the same sentence.

Just as strong, independent feminist women can wear the niqab, and strong, independent feminist women can go to women's only colleges, so too strong independent feminist are entitled to their own sections on planes.

This is such bullshit. My family lived in Saudi for a year when I was a kid (mid-70s), and it was nothing to see all the women change into their western clothes once they cleared Saudi airspace. The pilots even made the announcement. Conversely, they changed back into their hijab upon reentering the country. They're…

Apparently this is what religion is capable of accomplishing in this day and age. There is no solution except reminding everyone that this is the 21st Century.

The general nature of an aircraft means people are in close proximity to each other so if your beliefs are in conflict with it then either deal with it the best you can or get off and use another mode of transport. I hear cruises are lovely these days and you have your own room and can sit and mix with whoever you…

Nice to see that he can still grin about the whole thing.

DAMMIT! When I was in high school, wondering what to study at university, I asked about maths, and was told that with a maths degree I could become an accountant or a maths teacher. If I'd know I could have used it to write for a hit satirical animated sitcom my life choices may have been very different...

Farmer: At night, the temperature drops down to -173.

I laughed so hard at this...then stopped since no one else in the room got it :(