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How does an airline have the right to force anyone to use a blanket?

It's their airline. They have the right to ask that people not wear clothes displaying crude messages, too.

They are wisely protecting the sensibilities of their most sensitive passengers who might fined publicly bared breasts offensive, no matter the purpose. The might be a minority, and we might disagree with them, but they exist, and the airline that courts them as passengers is wise to have policies that keep people out of each other's faces.

Gillette said she was seated in the second-to-last row, next to the window, when she began to breast-feed her daughter. Breast-feeding helps babies with the altitude changes through takeoff and landings, Gillette said. She said she was being discreet -- her husband was seated between her and the aisle -- and no part of her breast was showing.

Gillette said that's when a flight attendant approached her, trying to hand her a blanket and directing her to cover up. Gillette said she told the attendant she was exercising her legal right to breast-feed, declining the blanket. That's when Gillette alleges the attendant told her, "You are offending me," and told her to cover up her daughter's head with the blanket.From here.

Jeez, another one that thinks sitting all the way in the back next to the window is offending the whole plane. You'll notice that the only person "offended" was a flight attendant. It doesn't say if it was a man or a woman. My guess is it was a "man" attendant whose mommy ignored him as a child.