Southwest Hates Hot Chicks

Quite a lot of discussion about Southwest Airlines and how twice in the last week or so, they’ve asked a woman to cover up, as she’s been dressed too scantily for the rest of the passengers. (Or, at least, some of the flight attendants, who made those requests.)

In both cases, the women were, in fact, dressed in pretty revealing clothes, but in no way were they out of control, or unlike the kind of outfits most people see someone wearing almost every day when the weather is warm.

Check out the links below to see what Southwest is all up in a tizzy about.

Here is the first woman, Kyla Ebbert, whose skirt was short enough that apparently passengers were treated to a view of her panties. Ms. Ebbert is unsurprisingly a waitress at Hooters, but what’s shocking to me about this is not her outfit. Again, nothing I haven’t seen quite a lot.

What’s shocking to me is that she’s at least claiming to be 23. Look at that face again. Girl has led a hard life, and one suspects she’s relatively unfamiliar with SPF. This woman is already not aging well. (And yes, I’m a wad for suggesting as much.)

And then, just a few days later, a woman named Setara Qassim was asked to cover up while flying back from Las Vegas to Burbank. Ms. Qassim, who actually looks to be pretty attractive, didn’t have a sweater (it being summer and having traveled from one desert to another), couldn’t cover up.

Now, a few things here. One, I have no idea what is wrong with this outfit – it certainly shows a lot of cleavage, but the shuttle from Vegas to Burbank is – as I understand it – basically a stripper shuttle. I’m thinking Ms. Qassim was more of the straw that broke the stripper-camel’s back. (There’s a cameltoe joke there somewhere, but I don’t have the time.) It also seems fairly clear that Qassim is a publicity whore, probably a stripper herself, and loving every minute of attention.

I’m not against Southwest trying to create an environment that is hospitable to all passengers, but I have to think there were better candidates to force to cover up. Either way, what we have here is one quickly aging 23-year old Hooters waitress and a publicity seeking probable stripper, both who are getting a huge amount of press for having nice bodies that other people couldn’t stop looking at.

Just so we’re clear on this, this is business as usual in the good ol U.S. of A.