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mbarker.livejournal.comOriginal posting 5 October 2007
Intriguing notion, there.
Over at http://us.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/10/05/airlines.dress.debate.ap/index.html
there's an article about Southwest Airlines and their problems with people's clothing. Apparently the employees have gotten in some hot water for telling people that they must change clothes to fly. And the company has gently reminded the employees that there is no dress code. BUT, say the employees, we're supposed to deny service to customers whose clothing is "lewd, obscene or patently offensive." The company is mulling over how to explain to the employees just what should be considered lewd or offensive.
And that's kind of the fun part. I mean, imagine trying to explain to a roomful of employees just what the line is for lewd, obscene, or patently offensive. Do you give examples? Try for a definition? Given the mixing of cultures, this is an area that is not easily defined.
Does one person wearing a t-shirt with "Master Baiter" on it constitute a problem?
What about the Japanese woman wearing the highly fashionable outfit that bears the words "the best little cathouse in Texas" emblazoned proudly on prominent portions of her anatomy? (I think some of them include "nothing could be finer than living in the best little cathouse in Texas" but that could be my imagination running wild).
Where would you draw the line for lewd, obscene or patently offensive? And how the heck do you explain it to employees in a way that they can determine who has crossed the line or not?
A puzzle for the fun of it!
Tink
(OWC: you could probably do a funny little sketch about this topic. It lends itself to a comic treatment, I think.)
Intriguing notion, there.
Over at http://us.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/10/05/airlines.dress.debate.ap/index.html
there's an article about Southwest Airlines and their problems with people's clothing. Apparently the employees have gotten in some hot water for telling people that they must change clothes to fly. And the company has gently reminded the employees that there is no dress code. BUT, say the employees, we're supposed to deny service to customers whose clothing is "lewd, obscene or patently offensive." The company is mulling over how to explain to the employees just what should be considered lewd or offensive.
And that's kind of the fun part. I mean, imagine trying to explain to a roomful of employees just what the line is for lewd, obscene, or patently offensive. Do you give examples? Try for a definition? Given the mixing of cultures, this is an area that is not easily defined.
Does one person wearing a t-shirt with "Master Baiter" on it constitute a problem?
What about the Japanese woman wearing the highly fashionable outfit that bears the words "the best little cathouse in Texas" emblazoned proudly on prominent portions of her anatomy? (I think some of them include "nothing could be finer than living in the best little cathouse in Texas" but that could be my imagination running wild).
Where would you draw the line for lewd, obscene or patently offensive? And how the heck do you explain it to employees in a way that they can determine who has crossed the line or not?
A puzzle for the fun of it!
Tink
(OWC: you could probably do a funny little sketch about this topic. It lends itself to a comic treatment, I think.)
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