Posted on 10/11/2016 6:15:11 AM PDT by TigerClaws
An Orange County woman said she is the victim of discrimination.
Mary Campos says 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.
It’s a story that is Only On 2. Stacey Butler spoke to Campos.
A 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'”
She said she continued by saying, “Yes?”
And the agent told her, “The two gentlemen seated next to you have cultural beliefs that prevent them for sitting next to, or talking to or communicating with females.”
She was shocked.
“I thought I lived in a culture where women were equal to men,” she says.
Campos is a senior consultant in the oil and gas industry.
She said she had no choice but to take her new seat assignment.
That’s when she said she wrote a letter to the CEO of United Airlines.
The letter said, in part, “What if I were handicapped, or transgender?” she wrote. “What if your entire crew were female? Any belief that prevents individuals from interacting with females should not travel on commercial aircraft.”
She got a reply that said United would look into it. She said she didn’t hear from them again.
But Butler did. A company spokesperson wrote, in part:
“We regret that Ms. Campos was unhappy with the handling of the seat assignments on her flight. United holds its employees to the highest standards of professionalism and has zero tolerance for discrimination.”
Campos was told the men were Pakistani monks who were wearing long orange shirts. She says the female flight crew were not allowed to serve the men.
“We can’t discriminate against half the population,” Campos said, “for a belief from another nation.”
Butler asked Campos if she intended on suing the airline and she said that was not her intention. But she did want two things from United.
Apologize to every female that was on that plane, including their employees. Change their policy. Campos said if she didn’t get those things, she would do whatever she had to do to protect women’s rights.
We're submitting already.
Just another way we are being forced to give a royal welcome to our replacements.
I am still trying to figure out from this story what is meant by “Pakistani monks”? I know of no monasticism in Islam! Has anyone else heard of a monastic Islam?
There’s plenty of room in the wheel well. Let them sit there.
It’s Islamic clerics but they CAN’T SAY “Islam” as it’s un PC.
So they rewrote the story courtesy of CAIR.
Just to prevent the ‘backlash’ y’know...
Pakistan is the @$$hole of the world. Nothing good comes from the place.
Following anything they believe is truly lowest common denominator territory.
They are Buddhist monks. There would no complaint from this harridan if they were Muslim.
She won't so she needs to sue, file a discrimination complaint, and organize female customers and shareholders to cause enough trouble that United Airlines changes its ways.
Updating tagline...
Not this woman.
Good for her.
We all need to stand against this kind of nonsense.
Well the color is right! But every Buddhist monk I met while traveling was very gracious and interesting pleasure to sit next to on a long flight. I also saw them sitting next to women many many times. Something is off about this story.
There was a coterie of monks in orange nightshirts at tne Salesforce.com “Dreamforce” conference in San Francisco last week. Marc Benioff, the CEO, seems to have brought them to the show to promote “mindfulness.” He is an ultra-liberal and about 80% of his keynote talk was nauseating blather about liberal pet causes like women in tech, equality, peace, love, evils,of white people, etc (the audience really did approve of the endless sermon).
How ironic if the monks that forced Ms. Campos to change seats were the same monks who were the props at Dreamforce to promote equality.
” monks”.
Buddhists or Franciscans?
Or maybe they meant “ mooks”
Yes, all the Buddhists I’ve encountered have been quite humble and genial.
There are Pakistani Buddhist Monks. The interesting thing is why choose the word Pakistani instead of Buddhist? Can’t just use the word monk?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pakistani_Buddhist_monks
she would do whatever she had to do to protect women’s rights.
We live in a time of “rights”, who is going to win?
If it was that important to them, they should have bought an extra airplane ticket.
We should not have to accommodate them.
Didn’t know that thanks!
I imagine the pressure on them by Pakistani Mooselimbs must be indescribable!
This link talks about a Pakistani Buddhist some 1400 years ago. I don’t think he & his cohorts were on the plane. If they were, no wonder the women was upset!
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