Have You Considered Boycotting Southwest Airlines?

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I am encouraging all Roman Catholics to prayerfully boycott Southwest Airlines.

In partnership with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition, Southwest has a Boeing 737 with “Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, currently dating actor Leonardo DiCaprio, is pictured lying seductively in a revealing white bikini along the length of the Boeing 737 as part of a promotional deal with Sports Illustrated. …”

I believe Southwest has crossed a line. It is time to have a permanent boycott of them. I also encourage those who are stockholders of Southwest or know those who own Southwest Airlines stock to express concern over this poor marketing idea.

We must take a hard stand against this form of soft pornography.

This is taking the concept of flying the friendly skies to a whole new meaning.

Regards,
 
You may as well boycott everything in America. Including all coastal towns with beaches.
 
Any place that sells Clothes, don’t ever go to the movies, no magizens at all…
 
Interesting replies…🤷

So, I wonder does anyone agree with me that Southwest Airlines crossed a line and does anyone care about this type of marketing approach ?

Thanks for the humorous responses and helping me see the absolute stupidity of even suggesting that Southwest Airlines has done something that has created a “near occasion of sin” for many.:confused:

Regards,
 
Terry_from_Ypsi said:
Interesting replies…🤷

So, I wonder does anyone agree with me that Southwest Airlines crossed a line and does anyone care about this type of marketing approach ?

Thanks for the humorous responses and helping me see the absolute stupidity of even suggesting that Southwest Airlines has done something that has created a “near occasion of sin” for many.:confused:

Regards,
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“Near occasions of sin” are individual. Another person or airline can not make an near occasion of sin for someone else. As a female I could look at the Swimsuit Edition all day long and it wouldn’t be an issue for me. If barely dressed, nearly anorexic women are a temptation for you then perhaps you should guard you eyes a bit closer.

Is the promo appropriate, no; but its any less appropriate than your average model in the Mall or any number of TV commercials, no… Unless were are going to start boycotting half the products in America I fail to see how its a big deal. I just wish the energies spent on the outrage for this sort of thing were focused on things we did have a moral obligation to fight like Abortion.
 
The simple answer for me is that I do not think they crossed any line. That phrase is usually reserved for something that is beyond the current norm. That as s worse than some but not all ads.
 
Terry_from_Ypsi said:
I am encouraging all Roman Catholics to prayerfully boycott Southwest Airlines.

In partnership with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition, Southwest has a Boeing 737 with “Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, currently dating actor Leonardo DiCaprio, is pictured lying seductively in a revealing white bikini along the length of the Boeing 737 as part of a promotional deal with Sports Illustrated. …”

I believe Southwest has crossed a line. It is time to have a permanent boycott of them. I also encourage those who are stockholders of Southwest or know those who own Southwest Airlines stock to express concern over this poor marketing idea.

We must take a hard stand against this form of soft pornography.

This is taking the concept of flying the friendly skies to a whole new meaning.

Regards,
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I am just waiting to see the lawsuit from the young woman that was kicked out of the Southwest Airlines flight because her attire was too skimpy. :D:D:D
 
Not having seen the image, I went to the SWA website and had to search for a bit to even find it. I wasn’t at all taken back at what I saw. As others have said, you see more skin at the beach.
Something more important, IMO, is the respect it gives its employees and customers. I am consitently treated better on a SWA flight than on any other carrier. And, from what I hear and read, they treat their employees much better than most other airlines.
 
Terry_from_Ypsi said:
Interesting replies…🤷

So, I wonder does anyone agree with me that Southwest Airlines crossed a line and does anyone care about this type of marketing approach ?

Thanks for the humorous responses and helping me see the absolute stupidity of even suggesting that Southwest Airlines has done something that has created a “near occasion of sin” for many.:confused:

Regards,
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I haven’t seen the photo, but I think the responses you find are humorous are actually very truthful.

Boycotts don’t really accomplish much especially in this case.

I cannot say that I will join you as I do not know what the problem is with the photo. Sadly much of the world wears bikini’s.

I boycott the bikini. I do not purchase the Swimsuit Issue of Sports illustrated. I am a modest person, I boycott the articles of clothing of which I find immodest, but it ends there.

If you were to look at history, in Jesus’ time and for well into the 19th century, women covered EVERYTHING. There was a time when pants or a short skirt (above the ankle) would have been considered scandalous.

I cannot boycott an airline for promoting sex. Well, I can. I don’t fly on hooters. I would hope that this swimsuit model is not on any flights to Orlando—b/c those flights are loaded with kids.

But adults can make their choices.

I boycotted (in theory as I had no flights planned) the airline that kicked a mother off for nursing her child.

The culture has forgotten what that part of a woman was for. Now–I don’t like woman who let it all hang out to nurse, but very few do. The faux-prudes like to accuse nursing women of doing this, but they would be wrong.

If the parts of this woman were covered, there is no issue.

The best way to not participate is to not wear the clothing yourself and avoid shopping in locations that don’t have an adequate selection of modest clothing. I pretty much quit dressing my children in Old Navy only b/c the really grown up clothes that tweens should not be wearing are all the way down to a size 7 for elementary kids. :eek: I don’t find it appropriate, but when their selection of modest clothing increases, we head in there.

I do not like the use of sex to sell, but I would not have known about the plane if I didn’t read it here first on a Catholic website.
 
I attended a Bible College for 3 years and Freshman year the girls were not permitted to wear pants (except in laboratory sciences) on campus. Men and women could not do laundry on the same day, and on Sundays men and women could not use the same paths to get to and from chapel, dormitories, the library or study centres.

It was the Sixties and about 80% of of us were from New York and New Jersey. Naturally we obeyed the rules but they were the punch line of so many jokes that the next year the laundry and path rules were rescinded.

It is my thinking that Taliban-like regulations and pinch-mouthed Church Lady behaviour only demeans us.
 
I had trouble finding a full picture of the plane. This is the best shot I could find:
contactmusic.com/photos.nsf/main/bethany_mcknight_5246181

I guess I find it surprising that Southwest would use the photo. I could think of much better things to portray. However, the photo I linked to is nowhere near as revealing as her photo used on the over of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue - which I won’t link to, because I think it crosses the line of acceptability.
 
Terry_from_Ypsi said:
I am encouraging all Roman Catholics to prayerfully boycott Southwest Airlines.

In partnership with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition, Southwest has a Boeing 737 with “Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, currently dating actor Leonardo DiCaprio, is pictured lying seductively in a revealing white bikini along the length of the Boeing 737 as part of a promotional deal with Sports Illustrated. …”

I believe Southwest has crossed a line. It is time to have a permanent boycott of them. I also encourage those who are stockholders of Southwest or know those who own Southwest Airlines stock to express concern over this poor marketing idea.

We must take a hard stand against this form of soft pornography.

This is taking the concept of flying the friendly skies to a whole new meaning.

Regards,
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Well I haven’t flown in an airplane since around 99-00 so I guess I can’t boycott it much lol It seems everything nowadays has something like that. If we boycotted everything that tried to lure us in due to sexual sin, we would pretty much never leave the house and couldn’t turn on the computer with the exception of this wonderful site of course! 😃 I wish this wasn’t the case but unfortunately it is.
 
Dale_M said:
I had trouble finding a full picture of the plane. This is the best shot I could find:
contactmusic.com/photos.nsf/main/bethany_mcknight_5246181

I guess I find it surprising that Southwest would use the photo. I could think of much better things to portray. However, the photo I linked to is nowhere near as revealing as her photo used on the over of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue - which I won’t link to, because I think it crosses the line of acceptability.
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I want to say “that’s it?”, but I don’t want to trivialize it. It is a very scantily clad woman, but she is wearing the modern bikini.

I know that SWA often changes the paint on the planes on particular routes in order to advertise something and I wonder if this is on a route with customers that may be frequent business travelers to make them think of a vacation or something?

Usually the advertising tends to be destination oriented when it comes to a plane.

What purpose would it serve for them to put Toucan Sam on the side for example?

It does make me shudder if I were to put my kids on the plane b/c they might wonder what bikini lady is doing on there.

But I live in Florida–I teach my children and we expect them to not wear bikinis. IT’s like wearing bra and panties to the beach.

We still have this neighbor–but she used to mow the lawn in her bikini. This was pre-babies for us. She had a “killer” bod in that she fit in the scantily clad ensemble. We used to (and still do) refer to her as “Bikini lawnmower lady”.

A picture like that may be indecent, but it doesn’t fit the legal definitions of obscene.

Folks often refer to me as sheltering my children. Yeah–that’s my responsibility, but short of holing up on my house permanently, I cannot shield them from skin in Florida. But I can teach them the importance of being modest about their skin. We can look nice and cute in age appropriate in our clothes without revealing so much. When we are old enough to court, we might consider putting on cuter clothes that might make us look more fancy–but not slutty.

That goes further than boycotting an airline that we don’t really fly anyway.

Now if the woman in the pic was photo’d in reverse–in a thong and missing the strings of her top so as to really give the illusion of nudity, then you’d be talking about some issues.

This is not to downplay that I don’t think it is bad, but it’s place is understood from an advertising standpoint.

I bet the flight attendants are furious though. Some of there male guests might wonder/expect if they should be dressed like the ones on Hooters. I think it does demean them.

If I were a flight attendant, I might look into my union about that.
 
LJN21 said:
“Near occasions of sin” are individual. Another person or airline can not make an near occasion of sin for someone else. As a female I could look at the Swimsuit Edition all day long and it wouldn’t be an issue for me. If barely dressed, nearly anorexic women are a temptation for you then perhaps you should guard you eyes a bit closer.

Is the promo appropriate, no; but its any less appropriate than your average model in the Mall or any number of TV commercials, no… Unless were are going to start boycotting half the products in America I fail to see how its a big deal. I just wish the energies spent on the outrage for this sort of thing were focused on things we did have a moral obligation to fight like Abortion.
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Just call me fuddy duddy, haven’t seen the ad, but can imagine what it may be like. I have often though of the inadequate under dress of some of our teenagers,/young adults, or close to it, T shirts/dresses showing as much cleavage as possible etc. etc. And what/who do these kids have for role models? The change in teen and youg adult dress changed so gradually, I didn’t notice it until my Grandaughter showed up not only with low riders, but tattoos as a belt. I don’t know what her mother was thinking… So now we have an airline falling in with the same pattern of sexual inuendo, using a woman’s body to allure us to a nice sandy beach. Maybe the ad is no worse than the standards we have today, but when did we get suckered into accepting these dress or un dress standards?

No I don’t demand burkas, but what has happened to women treating/dressing their bodies to show a semblance of respect for womanhood?
 
elts1956 said:
Just call me fuddy duddy,… Maybe the ad is no worse than the standards we have today, but when did we get suckered in to accepting these dress or un dress standards.
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I’m on the same page as you.

It is the frog in a boiling pot of water syndrome.

And these standards have been set by celebrities and the kids wish to emulate.

As parents, we must gaurd our fragile seedlings until they are strong powerfull plants that discern for themselves with what is right and what is wrong.

I am doing everything in my power to be unlike my mother in this regard. She let the elements at her seedlings despite what were her best efforts.

In this manner, I am not letting my “best” be my end goal. My goal is to raise these gifts from God to be THEIR best and to be shining lights in Gods eyes.

My best has not been good enough for years and I knew something was amiss. Christian/Catholic therapy has been a Godsend to not only heal myself, but to provide a BETTER parent to my kids.

I don’t want to attempt to do my best–I want them to have the best.

My mother will always say “I did the best I could.” But the response is weak b/c she knew she could have done better, but made choices that prevented that.

If she truly did her best, she would have been raising us as God’s gift to here.

My children would be confused as to why I would be offended at the way folks bare tummies and look “sexy” (heard teh word somewhere :eek:) or want to be Hannah Montanna if I was not ALREADY having modesty as part of our mainstream way of life.

I want them to be protective of their bodies as it is a gift from God. Not b/c it is something to be ashamed of (as my modesty is sort of).

Anyway–I have rambled enough. I hope the OP better understands where folks are coming from.

I’m not sure where the Church stands on this matter, specifically as where the line is drawn between dressing for your body type and being respectful of it as a temple and where the line that you are flaunting all and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Didn’t ladies once cover their heads for mass and mass was more of a proper Sunday dress event? In that regard alone, folks have relaxed their standards (depending on geography and season).

Didnt even–once she put on the fig leaves–probably resemble more of a bikini than a burka? I’m not using this to justify–but where do we draw the line for people between being comfortable in their own skin and honoring their temple to being nothing but a lustful temptation?
 
Well, I went to SWA’s linked site and I have to say I think I would rather see a porpoise, or NAMU (whatever happened to NAMU?) instead of that very bare skinned lady.on the side of the plane. I don’t think the ad is in good taste. I have always liked to fly SW. The service is great and they are one of the more dependable airlines still in existence, but I think they will get a letter from me complaining about the lady’s lack of clothing. Just call me fuddy duddy.
 
elts1956 said:
I have to say I think I would rather see a porpoise, or NAMU (whatever happened to NAMU?) instead of that very bare skinned lady.on the side of the plane.
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Yeah, me too. But according to Southwest Airlines website, Shamu is still around. In fact, there are three of them:
Included in the fleet are three flying killer whales, the “Shamu” aircraft; “Lone Star One,” painted like the Texas flag, to celebrate Southwest Airlines’ 20th Anniversary in a style and manner second to none; “Arizona One,” a symbol of the importance of the state of Arizona to Southwest Airlines; “California One,” a high-flying tribute to the state of California; “Silver One,” our 25th Anniversary plane; “Triple Crown One,” dedicated to the Employees of Southwest Airlines for their marvelous achievement of five consecutive annual Triple Crown awards; “Nevada One,” a high-flying tribute to the state of Nevada; “New Mexico One,” also known as Zia, painted in the bright yellow of the New Mexico flag; “Maryland One,” emblazoned with an artist’s rendering of the Maryland flag; and the newest addition, “Slam Dunk One,” symbolizing Southwest’s special partnership with the National Basketball Association.
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southwest.com/about_swa/airborne.html

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Terry_from_Ypsi said:
Interesting replies…🤷

So, I wonder does anyone agree with me that Southwest Airlines crossed a line and does anyone care about this type of marketing approach ?

Thanks for the humorous responses and helping me see the absolute stupidity of even suggesting that Southwest Airlines has done something that has created a “near occasion of sin” for many.:confused:

Regards,
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I would have to agree with you. If I were the one in charge of a multi-million dollar like Southwest Airlines I would find a fun logo that wasn’t offensive to anyone. If I couldn’t do that how about just giving good service for the dollar spent. That would be like unheard of in the airline world today.
 
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