Her actions actually fall well within the legal definition of “crimes of passion.” Men are actually regularly given leniency in cases of violence committed against an unfaithful partner while emotional.

You would start a shitstorm and pitch such a fit that a flight would have to be diverted hundreds of miles off course, inconveniencing hundreds of people, because you’re too selfish to just stew in it until the plane reached its destination?

Hi, did you know that Hannah Gold, the Jezebel author, is not the subject of this story, she is just reporting it.

Supporting a woman with a cheating spouse is great.

I agree. I get that she’s mad, but none of the other passengers on the flight did anything to her. Why should they get screwed over because her husband sucks?? I’ll never understand the idea that collateral damage is okay if you’re really, REALLY mad; it’s the same logic that abusive men use — they have legitimate…

Ah shit. Good point. They were already in full “feminists don’t care about men” mode.

Women are supposed to exhibit emotional control on a plane because it is full of other people who did not cheat on them who aren’t really feeling an unscheduled stop in India on a flight that is already 9 to 12 hours long. Sorry, but no one on that plane was feeling sorry for her at that point.

Sorry, I wasn’t referring to posts like yours. I know there are very legitimate complaints to be had with what I did.

“Woman puts sleeping man’s finger on phone” doesn’t really bring in the clicks. This is not a couple fighting “in public.” It’s a couple fighting in an already cramped, undersized, metal death tube screaming through the air thousands of miles above the ground full of cramped knees and circulated farts to the point it…

Well, when your fighting in public diverts a whole plane and inconveniences everyone else on board, that’s a leeee-tle dramatic in my book. I don’t see this as a gender issue. And I don’t really see containing your upset enough to let a commercial flight complete its journey as something requiring superhuman emotional…

Sorry guys, I should have known this would bring out all the MRA types. They’re like bloodhounds for this shit.

*why are women supposed to exhibit superhuman emotional control when dealing with men who practice no self-control at all?

Missing: the part where you get wasted and act out badly enough to ground a plane, ruining travel plans for everyone else on board.

Oh yeah. One side is preventing people from… You know… Living and all and the other side is really, really annoying. Totes the same thing. One side has a massive, billion dollar lobby working to prevent any semblance of compromise and debate and the other is asking questions about why we can’t even just talk about…

I had the depressing thought recently if so many white male shooters are labeled as “insane” “lone wolfs” because they don’t see the violence against women as that bad or abnormal until it spills out onto others.

Honestly, the majority of editors are men. And men think other men are just so clever, so insightful, so sincere about their underrepresented views on women, they simply have to publish them.

Plus, it’s Indianner.

This is the labor equivalent of “I’m a feminist ally but maybe don’t wear such a short skirt.”

“Workers of the world, unite! ...to remember your manager’s feelings. He’s a person, too, you know.”

You aren’t pro-union, my dude.