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I read the story and your comments carefully, and here's what I noticed.

• The article headline (maybe you didn't write it) claims she was rejected because her political pro-choice T-shirt is "inappropriate", but your story provides no evidence to support this claim.  The word "inappropriate"--which you quote--doesn't even appear in your article.
• In your comment you write that "she was not asked to do anything" and "there was no problem", but clearly she was asked to do something (change her shirt), and there was a problem (they didn't like her shirt)
• In your comment you write that she was stopped from getting off the plane by the flight attendant.  That's not correct.  If you read the story carefully, you'll see that the flight attendant spoke to her while the plane was landing, which means she was in her seat.  Nothing indicates the flight attendant stopped her from getting off the plane.  Further, the story says that she wasn't prevented from leaving the plane, but that the pilot stepped off the plane with her to talk to her about her shirt.
• In your comment you write that she was "publicly berated by the captain" with "vehemence".  Now, you're embellishing your tale.  Nowhere in your original article do you indicate she was "berated", publicly, vehemently, or otherwise.
• In your comment you write that "plenty of things are profane in my view that are common".  Non-sequitur.  It has nothing at all to do with what the airline's policies may (or may not) be.
• In your comment you trot out a bunch of examples and ask things like, "Are men required to remove misogynistic t-shirts".  Well, maybe they are.  Are you sure that they aren't?  Ever?  Do you have an evidence to back you up?  At all?
• In your comment you drag in many more irrelevant details, like how exhausted she was and how many meetings she'd had that.  As if any of these things have any relevance, at all, which they don't.  Complete non-sequitur.
• Most GALLING of all, is that you try to play the race card by saying the airline "targeted" an African American woman.  What on Earth does her race or ethnicity have to do with anything?  Racism is a grave issue, of course.  So grave, in fact, that charges of racism should be made with great care.  Have you ANY evidence this was racially motivated?  You certainly don't present any.

Please read the story--THAT YOU WROTE--more carefully.

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Actually they do--it is not a 'non-sequitir'.  Because it has nothing to do with 'saving baybees' and everything to do with trying to control women's bodies and reproductive choice--big government in every woman's uterus. And that  is about as obscene as it gets. 

Hi... in response to your question... The answer is "yes" she would have easily done that if anyone had asked her to do so. Please read the story carefully. She was not asked to do anything and there was no problem--she was not even *thinking* about this at the time-- when she was stopped from *getting off the plane* by the flight attendant and then publicly berated by the captain. No one had complained, she was leaving the plane, no one had asked her nicely or otherwise to turn her t-shirt inside out... it was how this was handled and the vehemence against her that is the issue.

while the word "fuck" may be seen as profane, plenty of things are profane in my view that are common staples of the world around us.  Why she was singled out AFTER the fact, and never asked. and moreover... why should she have to do this? Are men with t-shirts of naked women asked to do this? Are men with misogynistic sayings on their t-shirts or on their tatooed and visible arms asked to get off planes?

let's put this in context. This was an exhausted traveler, who ran to the airport after a multi-day meeting wearing the clothese she'd had on all morning. She didn't go there thinking... Oh, let's see how American Airlines reacts! she just wanted to get home. They made this incident into a controversy by targetting an African American woman in a t-shirt about which no one complained but was offensive *after the fact* to the flight attendant and captain. Sorry... let's not put the blame on the customer.