A woman was removed from a Frontier Airlines after cursing out a flight attendant, accusing her of “triggering” her and having an “issue” with minorities.
Frontier Airlines Flight Attendant Shuts Down Profanity-Filled Passenger Outburst
I wish we had a bit more context, but video begins with a passenger cursing out a flight attendant, accusing her of being unkind to minorities and of triggering her. Confident and poised, the flight attendant is clearly amused and indulges the passenger before shutting her down for cursing around children and asking a colleague to call security to have her removed from the flight.
All of this is filmed by another passenger, who captures the moment with perfect facial expressions:
When I see the black man raising his hand in solidarity to support the flight attendant and other passengers cheering when the flight attendant says the crazy woman will be removed, it makes me think that the charges that the “stewardess” had “issues” with minorities are totally unfounded.
When I hear this passenger say “you triggered me” to me it means, “I take no responsibility for my own actions, I can’t think for myself and can’t control my emotions. I can’t cope with the world around me, and use less than 1% of my brain.”
I know “triggering” is real for some PTSD victims and certainly do not mock those cases here, but heightened emotions and immature reactions are not the same thing and what I see here is an out-of-control and entitled woman handled well by a flight attendant who confidently was not going to put up with that.
Anyone who cannot control themselves to the point that they are throwing around f-bombs and other poor language around children is a menace to society…often there are drugs at play and that may be the backstory here.
I think this passenger realized that she had erred and try to calm down, but by then it was too late. I hope she enjoyed the bus ride home…
This is the kind of behavior that kept women as second class citizens forever.
Now, it’s gone mainstream.
And if not the bus… chugga chugga, chugga chugga, choo choo!
No matter what their cause, “triggers” are our personal responsibility to manage. The rest of the world has no obligation to tiptoe around on eggshells to avoid upsetting you. Some few people may need psychotherapy to help with this, but I’ll wager that most just need to grow up and stop imagining that they’re the centre of the universe.
Yes. Far too often these days accusations of “triggering” are used as a mechanism to attempt to blame other people for one’s own unjustifiably poor behavior.