and the airline states that wasnt the reason: “A party of three travelling out of San Francisco yesterday was not allowed to board following a discussion about having too many carry-on items,”
“The matter was resolved and the customers took a later United flight to finish their trip.”
so unless she or other passengers have a recording it will be very difficult to know what exactly happened…
You’re right that we’ll never know the truth. This is what has been reported.
“When [the flight attendant], who identifies as a woman, gave me our boarding passes, I said, ‘Thank you, sir.’ That is it. That is it,” Longoria, still confused over the incident, told The Post on Wednesday night.
“She got upset. I walked to the plane to go down the aisle. Then she held my mother back and wouldn’t let her come with me [past the gate],” she said.
On board, she asked another male flight attendant for assistance, telling him that “he” — referring to the first flight attendant — had kept her mother, who had been helping her with her son, at the gate.
“He said, ‘”He”?’ and I said, ‘Yeah.’ He then said, ‘She’s wearing a dress,’” Longoria said.
“My son is in my hand crying, I’m trying to get on the plane,” she recalled. “As a mother, my prerogative is to get my son safely on the plane and not what the pronouns that someone goes by.”
She admitted on social media that she’s “not very versed with pronouns.”
Longoria, her son and mother were ultimately barred from getting on the plane, which departed with their luggage — and medications — on board.
United told The Post in a statement that Longoria and her family were prohibited from boarding “following a discussion about having too many carry-on items” — which Longoria blasted as “an absolute lie.”
yes, while the whole idea of “protected speech” is silly to me, i think anyone can and should say whatever they want, just like anyone can also choose to listen or not
We do not always choose whether to listen. I constantly hear things I would rather not hear. Idiots talking loudly on their cell phones. Other idiots droning on at meetings because they like the sound of their own voices. This man in a dress did not choose whether to listen to the woman address them as “sir”. I personally don’t care. It all falls under the protection of free speech as far as I’m concerned.
Now that I think of it, I might ban talking loudly on the cell phone in public, but that’s governing volume, not content.
i think we always choose to listen or not; you can let your brain classify sounds as background noise or you can choose to zoom in and respond with whatever reaction you want
he/she/they did; they could have chosen to hear something else or ignore it completely lol
In this case, no, although I get that listening usually implies an effort to understand. In this case, the woman only said “Thank you, Sir.” In such cases, there is nothing to understand. Hearing and listening are synonymous in such cases.
interesting… i think there is always more to hear/see/feel and interpret since there are many ways to say the same exact words and even if you say it with the exact same intonation, your facial expressions or even just how you stand / body language can give lots of different meanings
its all subjective, just like you keep insisting she only said “thank you sir” while she stated herself she slipped up “multiple times”
As I read this narrative, she only slipped up once to the man in the dress. She said “thank you, sir” to that person. She then slipped up again to others.
