El Al Is Moving Women Passengers to Accommodate Men… Again

The Points Guy ^ | 06/26/18 | Jessica Puckett

[MuttTheHoople]

And they write this like it’s a bad thing.

[ronniesgal]

overly religious people come off like crackpots.

[golux]

Religion aside, a memorable old article on how El Al is actually a totally different airline:


http://www.wnd.com/2010/01/120838/

[Secret Agent Man]

The airlines force men to move around just for being men, all the time.

Fuch that, women, be a man. Be equals.

[faithhopecharity]

i try very very hard to respect these religious men
and i do respect them a lot
a great deal, actually

but.. this is beyond reasonableness, imho ..
(and for all its religious basis, it still shames the Jewish people... something these men should seriously consider)

if they sign up for a seat on a public conveyance, they have to expect there’s a 50/50 chance they’ll be sitting next to a female... hey guys, get used to it!

respectfully submitted

[Pollster1]

Why not a $100 surcharge to specify the sex of the person next to you (only for religious reasons, sorry Laz!)? If it’s already a woman, she gets the $100 for moving (or someone sitting next to a man gets it for taking your seat). If it’s a man, the airline gets the extra profit.

[ml/nj]

I like sitting next to women. The almost never encroach on my space.

ML/NJ

[Mount Athos]

I thought all airlines call security to evict any passenger who refuses to take their assigned seats for any reason. If they did this consistently the issue would not persist long

[Yaelle]

Good post. I agree. As a Jewish woman I did not like having to breastfeed a baby on a transatlantic flight in a man’s face. He didn’t either and we were able to switch.

As you well know, some Orthodox people go past the law into superstition. I tend to revere the way many frum orthodox people attempt to keep all the commandments (better than I do), but I’ve been inside the community enough to know that there is a special sin in overfocusing and leaving the spirit of the law while putting haughtiness higher than yiddishkeit. There are sins for everybody!

[Yaelle]

Yeah, it’s the Shane fur die goyim thing.

[Yaelle]

Shande

[T-Bone Texan]

In my experience Hasids are complete rude assholes.

[T-Bone Texan]

Well, as a man I very much appreciated a young woman next to me on a plane breastfeeding her baby, because I caught a glimpse of tit.

It was a big day for me, almost worthy of a diary entry.

You know, “Dear Diary, today something wonderful happened...”