My nine-year-old randomly asked about this movie the other day. I told him they canceled it, but it might show up on Netflix in a year or so (when I won’t have to endure it). I got out of the Minions and Angry Birds movies the same way.

That’s why the first time our daughter flew at 11 mos. we paid for her seat, put her in the car seat so she didn’t know the difference between in the car or being on a plane. It was money well spent.

My pediatrician recommended Benadryl for children before flights. It eases the pressure in the ears, and tends to make them a bit sleepy.

They can talk about fake dicks all day.

I agree with Bobby Finger. I just ran into a young woman yesterday who explained to me that a male-a teenager!-threatened to commit suicide if she did not go out with him. When she resisted, he tried to kiss her several times against her will.

...said the huge real dick.

Hmm, I have no problem with talking about a fake dick. I think fake dicks are very funny and worth talking about, actually! My problem is when in doing so, you characterize attempted rape as “seduction.”

I think she (assuming exile is a she) is correct though - pyramid schemes are more often targeted at women via social media, both because they’re a more likely target market for the products (which are often clothing and beauty products) and more likely to be stay at home parents who can be recruited via promises of…

I was being absurd, not serious. My point was at least you guys don’t have to come up with ways to diplomatically tell someone you aren’t in the market for pizza slice-patterned leggings.

Holy shit, no joke. I looked at Facebook last night and three friends, in a row, had pasted that Roden+Fields stuff (all with the same puff piece writing and picture - ACT NOW!). Friends should not be treated as saps. It was depressing.

One of the many ways men are privileged over women is they don’t deal with the same constant bombardment of the-not-quite-Ponzi-scheme-but-somehow-even-more-awkward LulaRoe/Scentsy/Roden+Fields/body wrap sales pitches from high school classmates on Facebook.

Hey now, im a guy. Please dont apply generalization because i think this is dumb as hell as well. 10 year olds are exempt from dress codes because logic and this very much is a double standard. Cargo shorts have never been “business” representative unless you worked for Old navy in 2006.

The fact that you were forced to do something as a child and continue to do it as an adult does not make it good policy.

You’re completely missing the point.

Well, no, actually. A policy that allows dad to stroll on to a plane in shorts while his 10-year old daughter is barred because she’s wearing leggings is sexist garbage. It does not matter whether the policy applies to all travelers, pass travelers or stowaways. This kind of discriminatory policy is never OK and it…

So it isn’t the gate agent, but the policy that’s blatantly sexist.

It IS sexualizing children’s bodies. The man who was with them was wearing athletic shorts. How is that choice more appropriate?

And as proof, let’s look at what occurred when Nicola Thorpe refused to wear two inch heels to work, even though it was “company policy.”

In reading the dress code that another commenter posted, it seems to give far more latitude to the men: shorts are allowed if they are no more than three inches above the knee — but no miniskirts at all. No spandex pants or dresses (hence the leggings issue) seems to be aimed at the women (I don’t recall too many men…

Since the issue for United is the employee dress code for people flying on employee passes, I wouldn’t be mad if they’d made the dad change too. They have every right to require that people who work for them meet a certain level of formality when redeeming a benefit.