Southwest: you should be banned from the friendly skies.

With no issue of apology, two twin incidents have happened on Southwest Airline flights where flight attendants have told women that they were wearing inappropriate clothing and to “cover up”.

I have been thinking a lot about these cases. Really in terms of the bigger picture, mind you. What does this really mean? A feminist commentator (who they gave, like, three seconds to speak) on CNN asked if this would have happened to a man. Well, it would most likely never happen to a man–but is there a deeper, more frightening aspect about what these incidents are saying?

I fear there’s a much scarier underlying message. Both of the women asked to cover up were thin and busty. They wore regular tank tops and had an above-the-knee skirt. Their outfits were fine. They were normally-dressed for hot weather outside. What SW saw as obscene were not their clothes, but their bodies. And when you start labeling women’s bodies as obscene, you are trekking on dangerous territory.

Hell, I’m surprised that SW hasn’t started handing out burkas to all women boarding the plane.