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EasyJet: Systematic Degradation, Plus Your Choice of One (1) Hot Beverage

Again and again on EasyJet flights, stinky ungodly women are forced to change their seats so as not to infect any pure ultraorthodox men who may, through the machinations of some diabolical force, have been seated next to them.

If the women refuse, other passengers — far from, say, acknowledging overt gender discrimination — put pressure on the women to make them move.

Of course this goes on all the time on EasyJet and non-EasyJet to-and-from Israel flights, but only occasionally does a woman resolve to turn down, for instance, the one cup of free coffee that EasyJet offers as compensation and instead contact IRAC, which sues on her behalf and makes all sorts of money for her. The discrimination is so comically obvious, and enjoys so wide an audience, that when these particular suits come forward, airlines simply pay up. The latest beneficiary is Melanie Wolfson.

Since this is such a slam-dunk, UD proposes the following source of income in these uncertain covid times: Groups of women organize themselves to “seed” selected haredim-heavy flights. Inevitably, on any given flight, a number of these women will be seated next to out-of-my-sacred-space-godless-harlot men. Every one of these women files a lawsuit (knowing what will go down, the group will include someone designated to film events on board) and thereby earns for herself and her co-conspirators compensation in the tens of thousands. Takes more time to make than a coffee, but is more satisfying, and lasts longer.

Margaret Soltan, March 11, 2021 7:46AM
Posted in: forms of religious experience

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3 Responses to “EasyJet: Systematic Degradation, Plus Your Choice of One (1) Hot Beverage”

  1. Greg Says:

    Why, when I was reading this, did my neurons fire up a picture of near-miss Mike Pence grotesquely shrinking from contact with women. A man unusually busy on Mother’s Day. Pathologies have many outposts.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Yes – who knows how Pence is handling the close proximity of women not his wife now that he has to fly commercial again…

  3. University Diaries » We all know the expression ‘to not give a flying fuck’… Says:

    […] many ultraorthodox men who refuse to sit next to women on commercial aircraft flying fucks (details here), and that we get the word out as broadly as possible that under no circumstances should you ever […]

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