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1. Well, I'm not being told to wear them, BUT harassment is cause by people, not by the clothes worn

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 10:53 AM

Mar 2014

And that's my opinion about that.

Being told to wear skirts that make employees feel uncomfortable would be a different conversation.

But I don't like the framing of the "concern" and the way it places "cause" on the uniform and the wearers, rather than on the perpetrators of harassment.

Hi, yuiyoshida!

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Mini-skirt turbulence at Skymark Airlines [View all] yuiyoshida Mar 2014 OP

Well, I'm not being told to wear them, BUT harassment is cause by people, not by the clothes worn NYC_SKP Mar 2014 #1

+1 F4lconF16 Mar 2014 #3

As someone who was born before the miniskirt was invented... malthaussen Mar 2014 #2

This comes around the same time that Massachusetts passed Flatulo Mar 2014 #4

It's a small Airline ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #5

Asian airlines are notoriously sexist. Singapore Air in particular comes to mind. Flatulo Mar 2014 #6