Don’t you know “Erin” means “Africa” in Gaelic?

Right? I laughed at her “who says I’m white? Who says I support Trump?” Girl, I think it’s a pretty fair bet.

The most hilarious part of all this is that it’s like these Grey’s Anatomy fans don’t even know who Shonda Rhimes is. Like is Shonda really gonna fire Jesse Williams for speaking out about social justice?? That’s about as likely as Donald Trump saying something intelligent. Ain’t gonna happen.

This is still a thing. The father of the 13 year old paid a $300 “unaccompanied minor” fee to ensure that the airlines would watch out for his kid. I hope the family sues the airline for fraud after they get done suing for every fucking thing else.

He looks totally creepy. And was talking to himself. They probably wanted to avoid a scene and left him sitting there. But the poor girl...

Might be different times, might have been because you were younger than this girl. Either way, a child should be able to sit on an airplane and not be assaulted the first time a flight attendant turns their back. Sad times.

I guess things have changed. They always sat me right by the flight attendants so that they always had an eye on me and I was the last one off so the attendant could escort me to the gate herself. I remember one time, when I was six or seven, they took me to the cockpit and I got to meet the pilot and copilot. But I…

She’s 16 and blossoming into a temptress. Why did she leave the house period?

Also very extremely relevant to whether this was the victim’s fault is whether she had ever been kissed be anyone before. Or even been kissed THAT SAME DAY (!). For example, had she promiscuously been kissed by her parents at the airport?

I read abthat it the 13 year old before my flight this morning, so I tried to see what I could see on my flight.

What’s most disheartening is how often it comes from Jezebel regulars.

I’m actually really glad we’re not hearing any of that. Baby steps, I guess.

Everyone is focusing on what the abuser did wrong, but I don’t hear anyone talking about the important thing — how did the victim bring this on herself?

The second article says: “According to American Airlines’ website, adults can pay an extra $150 for “unaccompanied minor service” for children ages 5 to 17.” It also says the victim’s father *did* pay for that service, so...fat lot of good it ended up doing.

No clue, but American is a crap airline, so it probably has some crappy employees too.

It’s middle aged for a pedophile....

Then WTF did they let him stay there?! And why did they ask HIM if he was ok with sitting there? Just move his creepy predator ass!!!

It’s a horrible situation, and it’s impossible to explain it to an outsider who’s reading this and thinking “why didn’t she say something?why didn’t she just get up and move?”

For the Camp story - it’s not clear, but sounds as though there were no passengers ticketed in the row with the 13-year-old. Does American have open seating like Southwest? There is no way that a dude choosing to sit in a middle seat next to an unaccompanied minor in an otherwise empty row should have been allowed to…

I read a little more about the girl in the second story. She must have been so scared. She was trapped in the window seat and she was traveling by herself. Jesus.