But a turd is not terrorism.
What I want to know is, how did the guy know that the mom was Canadian? Did she have a maple leaf tattooed on her forehead? Was there a Tim Horton’s logo on the blanket? Did the infant pause in its suckling to say “eh”? Seriously, I do want to know how he knew her nationality.
JMHO, but it seemed to me that ShibbOleth merely made a smart remark, while Zebra made an accusation. That’s why Zebra was singled out.
The article said her name was Wolfe and she had recently received a judgment from the Quebed Human Rights Commission, so perhaps she had a Freedom-Canadian accent.
Yes, great place. That happened once to us, while we were sitting at the seats there. A woman came to change her baby’s chockfull diapers one metre in front of us - while we were having breakfast.
What qualifies as “in front of” you? On a plane, the only way to see what someone in an adjacent seat is doing is to purposefully turn your head 90 degrees and that’s only going to afford you a semi-decent view of what’s happening in the same row.
If you don’t want to see a mom breastfeeding or changing a diaper down the row, you can look out the window, at your flying companion, at your feet, at your tray table, your laptop/magazine/book/gameboy/palm pilot, the barf bag in the seat pocket in front of you, the nifty little assembly of buttons, panels, nozzles and lights above you, the plane model logo on the window shade and so on and so forth. For the couple of minutes that it would take to change the diaper, you can simply choose not to intentionally crane your neck in that direction.
And if its happening in any other row, all the moreso.
In this case, the guy with the “problem” had to get up from his seat in order to stare at/confront the mother. (And there is no indication that he was upset about any in-seat diaper changing, just at the breastfeeding.) That would seem to indicate that he was sitting in another row or across an aisle. He was only “forced” to see this woman providing normal care to her child by his own personal inability to simply turn his head in another direction. (Since the article doesn’t mention that the man is paralyzed from the shoulders up, I’ll have to assume that he is capable of turning his head.)
One’s legitimacy in complaining about conduct that they could have chosen, quite easily, to ignore, is minimal at best.
Furthermore, this new “any disagreement with airplane staff is grounds for a record of complaint” policy when those disagreements are based solely on very personal issues which have no bearing on the security of the flight – such as making the choice not to needlessly move with an infant to go hide somewhere to nurse, or to prefer to use the child’s own blanket rather than some scratchy, filthy airline thing is patent nonsense. The woman didn’t fail to comply with an order, the woman didn’t do anything to disturb anybody but the intrusively nasty, nosy jackass who was apparently terrified of her breasts but went out of his way to come and stare at them.
But given that this woman had pursued a complaint once before when some other juvenile minded buffoon with an apparentl fear of breasts when used for their natually intended purpose tried to treat her as a second-class citizen, I’m hopeful that at very least there will be a lengthy letter of apology coming her way from Continental HQ, and with a considerable swiftness.
WOW you people can dribble on about crap YUK YUK YUK !
The article linked by the OP does not say that the woman on the airplane and the woman who was removed from a courtroom for breastfeeding her baby are the same woman—the two incidents involve two separate women, not one.
…you guys have **a Hooters Airline? **
really?
exits shaking head and muttering.
Well, I guess on a flight from Houston to Vancouver, most of the people will either sound Texan or Canadian. Hell, I could tell the difference between those two accents.
That article is crap. (No pun intended.) There is no evidence at all to back up her version of events. In fact, all the evidence contradicts her story. And this shit about the Convention on the Rights of the Child guaranteeing your inalienable right to breastfeed wherever and whenever you want is completely fabricated. Is this what passes for journalism in Canada?
I’m just waiting for the U.S. government-sponsored PSA’s about the War on Dugs.
Sorry.