Hide the tits
Wait what century is this?
Woman removed from flight for not wearing a bra
Lisa Archbold was due to fly from Salt Lake City to San Francisco when airline staff, she said, took issue with her clothing — a loose white T-shirt.
The incident was in January and received some media attention, but Archbold now has legal representation. Her attorney is Gloria Allred, who has been involved in several high-profile women’s rights cases — including representing women who accused Donald Trump and R. Kelly of sexual misconduct.
In a recent letter to the airline’s president, Allred said Archbold wasn’t questioned when she boarded the plane but was later escorted off the flight by a Delta gate agent.
For wearing a T shirt while in possession of breasts?
Maybe Delta should keep a supply of binders on hand.
It’d be one thing if the white shirt were in fact a white lace shirt through which everything could be seen. That would at least raise concerns of exhibitionism and public decency in the same way as drag queens and furries and whatnot. This was not that. (As far as I can tell from the linked picture. Maybe it’s opaque from one angle but magically transparent from another.)
While Kerry (aka “Kayla”) Lemieux would probably have received preferential treatment.
Nullius, from the pictures in the Post I suspect the tshirt was somewhat transparent. It might be a matter of lighting angle.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/29/us-news/dj-humiliated-on-delta-flight-for-not-wearing-a-bra-demands-to-meet-with-airlines-boss/
It doesn’t look transparent to me. Just because she wears a belt instead of a bra on stage doesn’t mean that she’s necessarily a bit of an exhibitionist at other times; however, as a bra-non-wearing woman myself, I would hate to think that it has become the right of flight attendants to police underwear and insist on women wearing what is, after all, a modern Western invention designed to present breasts as sexual objects. I wear thick cotton men’s vests instead, but I abhor the double standards that allow men to display their nipples openly whilst expecting women to hide ours while simultaneously showing off the rest of our breasts!
Who knew kiwis could be so exhibitionist! Oh well, times change. Once upon a time New Zealanders would have crawled over broken glass while wearing nice sober grey clothes to avoid public notice. Change is probably for the best.
Trust the NY Post to toss in a whole lot of irrelevant and prurient photos to spice the story up. I wouldn’t describe the top as transparent at all. Possibly slightly translucent in the sense that it allows a hint of skin colour through. My bet is that her ‘crime’ was that the physical presence of a nipple could be perceived, along with the general sense that there was actual flesh under the clothing. Given what I’ve seen men wearing on flights, not to mention yoga clothing wearers, this seems decidedly anodyne. Just another example of someone loosing their shit at the thought of a woman having a body in public.
Hahahaha yoga clothing wearers – how I hate those pants. I would throw EVERYONE off EVERY flight who wore them. I’m so tired of getting up close and personal views of people’s butts that I didn’t request. Nearly always women’s butts, to be exact.
My partner and I went on a day hike over Easter. Not demanding, but deep in the NZ mountains where weather can change in a heartbeat and if you’re unlucky to just twist an ankle it’ll be sometime before help arrives. The start of that particular track is super accessible and is really popular with tourists (Western European, Chines and Indian especially). The range in clothing from proper hiking gear, to yoga outfits, to street clothes, to stuff we’d wear for fine dining, was mind boggling. By the end my partner was shamelessly teasing my attempts to not look at lithe lycra clad bodies. If you’ve never seen the Trumpet ice cream ad – undies/togs, I recommend finding it.
In fact, here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Lx2ihpGbc
The “yoga” pants are even worse in gyms. They leave literally nothing to the imagination when young women bend over.
Without being too graphic, try walking up a steep hill behind someone…
I’ll shut and stop derailing now. I don’t want to be accused of body shaming or making moral judgements, but at my age you glance at a scantily clad body and everyone instantly assumes dirty old man. I do think Delta have wrong footed in this case though.
Skin tight workout clothes for women have been around since the 1980s. Wearing them for other than workouts is considerably more prevalent today than back then, though.
This tangent brought to my mind Barbara Hambly’s guest of honor speech at WisCon (decades ago, now), about superhero outfits and the panty line from hell.
I think it’s officially not derailing when I’m the one who started it. And yes, sometimes the front view is even more WHY HELLO THERE than the back view.
Hahahahahahaha I love the Trumpet ad.
Ah yes. As I once heard a meteorologist say ‘cold front approaching.’ Despite all the above, I’d far rather see women in yoga gear than say me in lycra bike pants and a t-shirt with my old man moobs. Milage may vary.
That Trumpet ad is a cracker.
It’s not just your at your age. There was a fairly big phenomenon last year of female “influencers” (*cough*) who produced content by farming glances from men in gyms in order to paint them as predators. It got big enough that there was a countermeme of men running away from girls asking for spotter help.
I had a shirt made out of what looks like a very similar material. It was translucent enough that I wouldn’t wear it without a camisole underneath, not just a bra. Maybe it was dark when she got dressed, but I think someone wanted attention and got more than she bargained for.