I Stand With This Mother Who Was Kicked Off A Plane For Breastfeeding
Yahoo - The internet is locked into a fierce debate over a cancer researcher who was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight for breastfeeding her toddler.
On Friday, Mei Rui, a cancer researcher and concert pianist, was aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from her hometown of Houston to Newark, N.J.
When the plane was delayed due to icy conditions, Rui began breastfeeding her son, in an attempt to calm him. “Every parent with a young child can [imagine], you don’t want to be that parent on the plane,” Rui told the Post. “It would be very embarrassing. I was just trying to avoid that.”
Initially, Rui was able to nurse in peace; however, a flight attendant soon informed the mom that her son would have to be buckled into his own seat.
“I asked for just a couple more minutes to finish because if he woke up at that point he would have made a lot of noise,” Rui told the paper. “I said, ‘I promise I’ll finish before you close the plane’s door.’”
According to Rui, the attendant headed to the front of the plane and Rui stopped breastfeeding, securing her son in his own seat. But when he started crying, Rui says she was asked to leave the plane.
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Look- it’s always freaking bizarre when a lady whips out a tit and starts breastfeeding in public. You give it the ol double-take, you look down at your phone, but always kinda look up out of the corner of your eye. Not because you want to see it, but just because it’s still sort of weird to see out in public. It just is, there’s no doubt about it, it’s just not something we’re used to.
That being said, I stand with with this lady.
You can’t kick her off the plane for breastfeeding.
Why?
Because she’s on fucking Spirit Airlines.
SPIRIT.
You can do anything you want if you fly Spirit Airlines. That’s just a stone-cold fact. It’s the wild, wild west when you fly on Spirit. People are swinging from the ceilings, doing blow in the bathrooms, fucking in the aisles. The pilots are pilot school dropouts, the flight attendants don’t know the difference between peanuts and pretzels, and the people who voluntarily fly on it are a step above primates. Sometimes normal people have no other option but to fly Spirit, and then it becomes Lord Of The Flies. Kill or be killed. You lose all morals, values, ethics, and standards and just adapt with the wild people of Spirit Airlines.
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So of course she was trying to breastfeed her crying kid on the plane. She paid 37 dollars for the ticket, and there is a 50% chance the flight ends up at the bottom of the Atlantic anyway. Just bad luck she ran into the one Spirit Airline flight that tried to operate like a real airline. Very, very unlucky.