Getting arrested, mugshot allover the place, permanently banned from the airline, having her child temporary separated from her, and risking a hearing on my medical license as a physician beats dignity.

This is the real problem. The idea that your airline ticket is a valid contract with terms that allow airline staff, not government officials, to deny you basic human rights is fucking absurd.

The biggest problem in these scenarios is what the doctor realized: you are, at this point, completely at the mercy of the airline. You want to get home? Do what we say! What? Important business trip? Well then, guess you should cover up or you’ll miss it.

Black people treated different than White people?

One of the very possible alternate endings if she decided to stand up for herself, is her being arrested and her child being taken by the authorities.

After she wrapped the blanket around her waist, she said, another flight attendant came up and warned her not to make a scene, despite the fact that she was deliberately behaving calmly to avoid escalating the situation.

No, no, you may be on to something. But our sample size of roughly 30 million people is just too small to be sure.

I wished airlines policed people with no shoes on the same way they dealt with this lady.

I agree. I saw an older skinny white man in a mini-kilt with no underwear waiting in the gate area for his plane. He was flashing people by they way he sat and spread his legs. When he was reported to the gate agents, they just told us to sit somewhere else. After a few more complaints from others, they finally asked…

No bare feet, no stinky food, no perfume that’s trailing clouds of stank as you walk by...

White lady here. I can attest that when I was in my 20s and 30s I wore outfits on planes that were identical to this woman’s outfit. No one batted an eye. And I often got upgraded to business class solely b/c I was young and pretty. I’m sure the male gate agents thought they were doing the businessmen seated next to…

Was literally on a flight from Puerto Rico to Maryland and watched 2 white women get on the plane with swimsuits on and see-through cover-ups. And when I say see-through I really mean why bother with the attempt at coverage at all since we could see their whole address. What airline did we fly? American. When was…

If only that flight had a medical emergency in the air and the crew had to ask if there was a doctor on board. That would have been so perfect.

Insane. That outfit isn’t even revealing! I don’t care how naked someone is on a plane as long as they keep their bottoms on and don’t put their bare feet anywhere near me.

I know this is probably just crazy talk, and we probably need more data to figure this out, but it is really starting to seem like Black people might be treated differently than White people in the US.

I’ve seen so much worse on white people (men and women) down here in the 9th level of hell. No one would flick an eye at her if she was white woman wearing that. Policing of black bodies with the sole goal of humiliating and demeaning us for taking up space is something that white people love to do.

So ridiculous that airlines even have these vague, bullshit dress codes in this day and age. Their only purpose is to police body types that any power-tripping underpaid staff doesn’t like, and 9/10 that’s WOC or plus-size people. And the same goes for school dress codes. They should really focus on forcing people to…

Actually, this is exactly what they want. They want to pay for their kids, their trash collectors, their city services, and nada mas.

I watched Coates yesterday, and when the video ended had tears in my eyes.