Allegedly,the 'male' attendant-again,according to which source you are going to believe-either told her quietly that she needed to cover herself up[and even offered a blanket],or he did so in a very loud manner(she 'was' asked to buy a souvenir t-shirt,but refused).Eventually she tugged up her blouse and pulled down her skirt and was allowed to proceed.
Now,Dr.Phil.Phil had Kyla,with her mother,and her lawyer( Martin Reed)on the show.Doctor Phil seemed very very sympathetic to Kyla's cause.She wore an outfit very similar to the one she wore the day of the flight.As you can see,it looked nice on her.I didn't think it to be too revealing.Do you?The doc approached the situation in a seemingly fair way.Questioning people off the street,asking them if she was too revealing.Some said yes-most said no.Some even said that if they had a body like hers that they would have wore the same thing.
Then,Dr.Phil,asked her just what she wanted out of this whole ordeal.Tsk,tsk,Dr.Phil-this was setting her up.She stated that all she ever wanted was an apology.So Dr.Phil,being Dr.Phil,in what she must have assumed to be a hypothetical question,asked"So,if 'Southwestern apologized to you,you would not appear on anymore talk shows?"
Startled,but sticking to her story,she voiced a nervous,"Yes."
Next(good ol' Phil),flashed on the screen behind them a jumbofied letter of an apology from the C.E.O. of 'Southwestern Airlines'.Dr.Phil then handed her two free tickets good for anywhere 'Southwestern' flew.The good doc then said something like(I am paraphrasing him),"So,no more talk shows,right ?"
Kyla's jaw dropped.At first she grabbed the tickets and agreed,and then she reneged.Her lawyer emphatically stated,"No,she wants to make sure this never happens to anyone again.Kyla handed the tickets back to Phil.And then Phil astonished me by saying something like,"But 'Southwestern' has the highest on time rate in the country.'Southwestern is the safest airline there is.
BAM!
Everybody was crashing and burning.Kyla and her mother(though tricked) were showing that they were hooked on the fame of the thing[I do not call the apology a true apology.The C.E.O. should have done it in person at the very least-not in a form of a letter on Dr.Phil].They came across as greedy and mean spirited.
Their lawyer came across the same way.Of course his reasons were more professionally stated,but I do have to agree with one thing that Dr.Phil said.Why should the time and the money of our courts be tied up on something already settled?
But in the end,Big Phil came across as the biggest loser.He came across not as a doctor at all,but as a manipulating,evil,trickster.He was bought out by 'Southwestern' before the show even began(why do I feel like 'He' was the one that came up with the idea?).It appeared that he cared little for Kyla's plight,but much of his own ego.
It was truly one of those shows that made for terrible television.But like any good plane crash...I couldn't stop watching.
2 comments:
Well, there are SO many things that can be said about this story. I actually waited to comment when I would have enough time to form complete thoughts. So, here we go.......
First, I don't see it as a plight....she is a Hooters girl, which tends to mean that they like to show off their assessts. Judging from her clothing, or lack of, she was. That isn't a skirt, it's a hanky. The thing she is refering to as a swaeter l;ooks like it was purchased in the childrens section. I know small is style, but why did she even bother?
Now, unless the sirlines sport a dress code there is no way they can dictate what a passenger wears, but there are limits to tacky and poor taste. It seems as if that skirt would actually put her bare butt, or if she wears panties, on the seat intself. Nice...sanitary for the nexr person/traveler!
She could have just been polite and covered her legs / crotch/whatever was bothering people. But, NOOOOOOOO it seems that she had to raise all kinds of hell to end up on TV screaming for her rights. Who does she think she is...Paris, Lindsay, Britney? I thought they had a corner on the market of showing off their nether regions.
Anyway, she should have just settled the situation and never gone on Dr. Phil, the Oprah machine, and let it go, but nooooo, this society has to keep up their litigious practices. Keep the courts full of stupi and senseless crap.
When you work at Hooters dress like Hooters, when you are going to take a trip or go grocery shopping maybe think about the effects you will have. You do have choices. She needs to accept responsibility for hers and go with the results.
I was going to do a post on going pantiless and exposing yourself to the world.Paris, Lindsay, Britney seemed to have made it a very fashionable fade.Of course 'the media' has helped.I keep asking myself...is there no decency left in America?Will the media stop at nothing?Just because you have photos of pantiless gals exiting their cars ungracefully,does that give you an excuse to publish them?Newspapers and magazines are acting like XXX rated blogs!
I guess the saying should be amended to ,"All's fair in love,war,blogging and the free press."
It's easy to say,"Well,they wouldn't publish it,if the people weren't buying it,"BUT that's a bunch of crap.Popular magazines glorifying the hot,rich & beautiful (and stupid)as being stylish trend setters by showing them going pantiless!?!If you want to pretend to be a hot babe-yuh gotta go out without your undies!Get real!Not everything in America is SEX.
On the other hand,this is not Saudi Arabia or Iran.It should not be mandatory for women to wear a burkha in The United States.I wonder just how much and to just how many people could Kyla have exposed herself to on an airplane?The hygiene issue was not noted anywhere that I researched this post-neither was the position of her seat.Was she in an aisle seat?First class?Nothing is ever said.
We see women(and young girls)dressing more and more like this every day.Look at the Disney Channel for crying out loud....well,it is 'The Ex' Mickey Mouse Club starlets causing the craze.
It's all crazy-if you ask me.
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