This guy is my hero

[The Man]

Six days before a college football player was arrested at San Francisco International Airport in a dispute that began when a US Airways employee asked him to pull up his sagging pants, a man who was wearing little but women's undergarments was allowed to fly the airline, a US Airways spokeswoman conceded Tuesday.

A photo of the scantily clad man was provided to The Chronicle by Jill Tarlow, a passenger on the June 9 flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Phoenix. Tarlow said other passengers had complained to airline workers before the plane boarded, but that employees had ignored those complaints.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...#ixzz1Q7Bd5z3e

[Die Rote Fahne]

Seriously, this was great. That guy is awesome.

Also sounds like that attorney isn't defending his client, but trying to prosecute this guy.

[PhoenixAsh]

I think the employees are my heroes....in THIS case....they ignored the complaints. In the other case they were probably ignorant racists.

[Fopeos]

Well, it would be really difficult to hide a weapon in that outfit. As for the fellow with the baggy pants, Didn't they put him through a metal detector? Didn't they pat him down? Sounds like they took issue with the guys style.

[ZrianKobani]

This guy has single-handedly killed my cross-dressing fetish

[Steve_j]

This guy has single-handedly killed my cross-dressing fetish

Just stoked mine

[ZrianKobani]

Just stoked mine

[Queercommie Girl]

There really is nothing wrong with cross-dressing intrinsically, and it would be wrong and transphobic to oppose it. I mean, who is to say that certain items of clothing are only for men or women anyway, for instance?

Having said this, it looks like the guy could really use some fashion advice...

[Tenka]

Nice stockings and shoes there.

This guy has single-handedly killed my cross-dressing fetish

Don't be a quitter.

[ZrianKobani]

Nice stockings and shoes there.


Don't be a quitter.

As long as my boyfriend is still able to make it look good, I have no reason to complain

[Obs]

All trans- and homophobia aside, the way that man is dressed is totally inappropriate. I'm not saying it should be illegal or that he should've been stopped, just that it's really poor taste to go out in public in your underwear.

[Queercommie Girl]

Cross-dressing is like drinking alcohol. There is nothing wrong with light or moderate drinking, it might even be good for your health.

But in this case the guy is doing binge drinking.

[Tenka]

Cross-dressing is like drinking alcohol. There is nothing wrong with light or moderate drinking, it might even be good for your health.

But in this case the guy is doing binge drinking.

I don't think that analogy quite works here seeing as the man is under-dressed (I mean, he's in his underwear, and not wearing a wig over his mostly bald scalp). There's no such thing as too much cross-dressing.

edit: on the other hand, he might just be an exhibitionist -- there can be too much of that (not that this would qualify as too much in that case, either).

[Queercommie Girl]

I don't think that analogy quite works here seeing as the man is under-dressed (I mean, he's in his underwear, and not wearing a wig over his mostly bald scalp). There's no such thing as too much cross-dressing.

edit: on the other hand, he might just be an exhibitionist -- there can be too much of that.

It's a metaphor. Generally speaking doing things too extremely isn't a very good idea...

[Tenka]

It's a metaphor. Generally speaking doing things too extremely isn't a very good idea...

Looks more like an analogy; but anyway, what would you say he is doing to the extreme? Cross-dressing? That's impossible: he does not even approach the level of a drag-queen in, I guess what could be called 'degree of cross-dressing'. Do you mean his public display is extreme (like too much exposed skin, etc.)? That I could understand, but he certainly hasn't taken cross-dressing as such to any extreme.