United Flight Makes Woman Switch Seats After Pakistani Monks Complain
"I thought I lived in a culture where females were equal to men."
9.30.2016
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A Southern California woman experienced the dark side of multiculturalism during a United Airlines flight when the crew forced her to switch seats to appease the misogynistic leanings of two Pakistani monks.
From CBS Los Angeles:
Mary Campos said her pre-booked ticket was given away by United Airlines. The reason? She’s a woman, and two men didn’t want to sit next to a female.A million-mile flier, Campos, a mom who lives in Coto de Caza, said she thought she’d seen it all - until a gate agent handed her a new boarding pass just before she got on a flight to Houston last Monday.
"He said, ‘This is your new seat,’" Campos said, "and I said, ‘Excuse me?’ And he said, ‘I don’t know how to tell you this.’"
The agent then told Campos that the two Pakistani men "have cultural beliefs that prevent them for sitting next to, talking to or communicating with females."
Since Campos doesn't come from a culture that (rightly) allows men and women to converse with each other, she found this outrageous, not because they held the belief, but because the American-based airline, hence the name "United," actually wanted to appease them.
"I thought I lived in a culture where females were equal to men," she said.
Campos lamented she had no choice but to take her seat assignment, prompting her to later write a letter of complaint to the CEO of United Airlines.
"What if I were handicapped or transgender?" she asked in the letter. "What if your entire flight crew were female? Any belief that prevents individuals from interacting with females should not travel on commercial aircraft."
United Airlines never responded to Campos until CBS Los Angeles picked up the story. They now apologize that she "was unhappy" with the situation.
"We regret that Ms. Campos was unhappy with the handling of the seat assignments on her flight," said a company spokesperson. "United holds our employees to the highest standards of professionalism and has zero tolerance for discrimination."
The Pakistani monks were allegedly "wearing long orange shirts" and "the female flight crew was not allowed to serve" them. Since Islam has no monastic orders, the two monks may have been some sect of Buddhism or Jainism.
Hey feminists, where you at?
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