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onager

(9,356 posts) Thu Jul 30, 2015, 09:44 AM Jul 2015

Another religious airline incident (Canada) [View all]

(Posted in the Atheists/Agnostics Group, in case that isn't clear.)

Porter Airlines: Ultra-Orthodox Jew horrified when he is assigned a seat beside a VHH (Vagina-Having Human). Starts ordering other passengers to "Change!" Woman refuses to move or otherwise accomodate his Bronze Age bullshit.

I would have been tempted to have some fun with this clown, since he would probably sit beside me as a fellow Penis-Having-Human:

"Hey, on the last leg of this flight, a woman was sitting in the same seat Your Sacred Ass is occupying now. I noticed some small red spots on the seat cushion, and I don't think they are hydraulic fluid..."

Yes, I know. I'm a horrible person. I may even Alert on myself...

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/passengers-on-porter-flight-clash-when-ultra-orthodox-jew-refuses-to-sit-next-to-woman

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Another religious airline incident (Canada) [View all] onager Jul 2015 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Pacifist Patriot Jul 2015 #1

No- the horror-a woman next to me packman Jul 2015 #2

Well, the solution is quite simple - mr blur Jul 2015 #3

I hear the wheel well doesn't usually have many icky girls inside. Arugula Latte Jul 2015 #5

The pet area of the baggage compartment is even heated and pressurized Warpy Jul 2015 #7

Imagine if the situation were reversed skepticscott Jul 2015 #4

Excellent point. Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #8

Absolutely correct. SusanCalvin Jul 2015 #9

It would be anti-Semitism/racism. Behind the Aegis Jul 2015 #10

Then you haven't been paying enough attention skepticscott Jul 2015 #11

Plenty? Or a select few? Behind the Aegis Jul 2015 #14

Enough to make your claim skepticscott Jul 2015 #16

I never claimed they were, just I hadn't seen them. Behind the Aegis Jul 2015 #17

Then why is your lack of personal experience in seeing this skepticscott Jul 2015 #19

Because I was the one composing the post. Behind the Aegis Jul 2015 #21

And you own personal failure to see those posts skepticscott Jul 2015 #22

It is evidence I didn't see them. Behind the Aegis Jul 2015 #23

What scott said. trotsky Jul 2015 #12

Sounds as if you are speaking of a very, very small minority. Behind the Aegis Jul 2015 #15

And that means it didn't happen? skepticscott Jul 2015 #18

I didn't say it didn't happen. Behind the Aegis Jul 2015 #20

but rather an example of misogyny. AlbertCat Aug 2015 #24

Sexism : Misogyny - Tomato : Tomahto progressoid Aug 2015 #26

Just because they have a vagina doesn't mean they are a woman Lordquinton Jul 2015 #6

Another one! Saudi King vs French Police onager Jul 2015 #13

Also, to stop the many wives and servants seeing police women, mr blur Aug 2015 #25

So either don't fly or charter your own damned flight! drm604 Aug 2015 #27