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The 5 weirdest places a baby has been born.

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You think you have nine months to plan your baby's arrival, but sometimes newborns have their own plans. These kids will pop out anywhere they damn well please. Be safe, moms to be, and maybe try not to go anywhere super embarrassing in your third trimester? You don't want to end up giving birth in the Porta Potty at a Justin Bieber concert.

1. At McDonalds.

Congratulations, it's terrifying.

McDonald's employee Danille Miller–who didn't know she was pregnant–felt a sudden urge to run to the bathroom during her shift. A few minutes later, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy. She did not want fries with that.

2. In a Tree.

Where the #$@& is Tarzan when you need him?

Ideally, you'd give birth on a hospital bed, but Sofia Pedro was not so lucky. The quick thinking mom-to-be climbed a tree to escape rushing floodwaters in Mozambique. Her labor came just as quickly. While high up in a tree, Sofia bravely clutched some branches and delivered her daughter. Luckily, they were both rescued by a helicopter crew minutes later.

3. At Sesame Place.

Elmo, what's a placenta?

Kids love Sesame Street, apparently even before they're born. Takia Mann was with her other children at Sesame Place when suddenly she went into early labor. She delivered her baby girl right there in front of Elmo and Oscar the Grouch. "It happened so fast. I didn't have pain, just shock," said Mann. Well, that's one way to teach kids where babies come from.

4. At the strip club.

Give this lady some dollar bills!

"Born in a Strip Club" sounds like the title of a really depressing country song, but for this baby it's a true story. A North Texas woman and her husband were rushing to the hospital, but their baby didn't want to wait. The nervous couple pulled their car over—at a strip club—and the mother gave birth to a healthy baby boy. I guess you could say it was destiny, which was also the name of the woman on stage.

5. On a shrimp boat.

Welcome to Bubba Gump's Baby Factory.

Shrimp boat Captain Ed Kiesel caught something unexpected when his cook went into labor while out at sea. After delivering the baby, Keisel joked, "We set out with a crew of three, and we came back with a crew of four. We're not getting too much new blood in the shrimp industry, so I guess we have to manufacture our own." I really hope they named the baby "Jenny."


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5 romantic comedies I hate as a feminist and love as a person.

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Romantic comedies always do a good job of depicting realistic female characters with substance. Hahahaha JK: women in rom-coms are usually two-dimensional manic pixie dream girls or girls next door who need to be taught how to have fun. But just because a movie infuriates me as a feminist doesn't mean I haven't watched it 12 times, sobbing my eyes out regardless.

Here are my favorite rom-coms for when I feel like crying and then smashing something, like my TV, or the patriarchy.

1. When Harry Met Sally

“Men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way," says Harry (Billy Crystal) in When Harry Met Sally, and then the whole movie debates, and ultimately proves, his point.

The idea that no woman could ever be appealing to a man for non-sexual reasons is pretty sexist. Likewise is the idea that no man could overcome his animal lust to see a woman as a worthy platonic companion.

But this movie is so charming and relatable I can watch it and re-watch it and even concede that fine, maybe it is a little tricky for (straight) men and (straight) women to be friends.

2. Bringing Up Baby

This 1938 classic deserves acclaim because of Katherine Hepburn's role as maybe the original Manic Pixie Dream Girl (as the AV Club explains: "that sentient ray of sunshine sent from heaven to warm the heart and readjust the attitude of even the broodiest, most uptight male protagonist.") She's flaky, has a pet leopard, and won't leave this hot scientist hunk played by Cary Grant alone.

This movie is hysterical and fun and, in some ways, ahead of its time even if it does make me mad as a feminist that this character can't even stand up without a man's guidance.

If I had a time machine, I'd go back to 1938 and tell women: "It gets better! Not your depiction in movies though, sorry, that will stay the same."

3. Pretty Woman

This iconic movie changed the game for anyone who has ever been given side eye while shopping in a fancy boutique, thanks to the scene where Julia Robert's character returns to a store where she was treated rudely, this time with unlimited cash.

There are other reasons to love this movie: the clothes, the snappy dialog, the relatively progressive depiction of a sex worker, Richard Gere, Richard Gere, etc.

But from a feminist angle, the rich-man-saves-poor-woman scenario is tired. I'm still holding out for the sequel: Smart Woman which ends with her climbing up the fire escape to rescue herself.

4. Annie Hall

Diane Keaton's wardrobe alone, and that lobster scene, make this movie worth watching over and over again. But for some reason every time I watch a Woody Allen movie, my feminist alarm bells go off.

Could it be the sexual assault allegations against him? His creepy marriage to (former adopted daughter) Soon-Yi? His general lack of female characters with depth?

Take your pick! There's a whole buffet of reasons to feel awkward as a feminist watching any Woody Allen movie. At least Annie Hall doesn't involve a relationship with an underage woman (like Manhattan) or a woman getting murdered (too many to list). Silver linings.

5. Love Actually

This movie may be one of the most iconic rom coms, but it's pretty obvious it was written by a dude. I don't know what makes me sadder, the fact that there are so few female characters of substance in this movie, or the fact that the men keep declaring their undying love for women they barely know, but who look good from a distance.

All I know is love is not logical. Like my love for this movie, which I will watch every Christmas as long as I live.

New Look fashion responds after enraged internet blasts t-shirt implying kids need to diet.

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A picture tweeted by Ilona Burton of a pair of pajamas for girls ages 9 to 15 with a picture of a slice of pizza and the text "Cheat Day" is going viral as people get outraged about the insinuation that children should be worried about their carb intake.

Her tweet reads: "Can we all tell @NewLookFashion that 9 year olds shouldn't even know what a 'cheat day' is? So wrong."

Why not just one with a picture of donuts that reads "NO FATTIES"?

Burton's call-out of the inappropriate material (pun intended, BAM) has been shared on Twitter over 7,000 times, and was retweeted by author J.K. Rowling. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people wanted to add their own opinions on the matter.

The company that manufactured the set, New Look Fashion, has responded, saying that the shirts were meant to be for adults and were just displayed in the wrong area. Oops.

The spokesperson added, "New Look has always taken its responsibility in promoting body confidence very seriously, particularly when it comes to our younger customers."

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Dog gets in on couple's maternity shoot, goes viral.

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On July 25, a 16-year-old namedAtalia tweeted a picture from her sister's maternity shoot that has since been retweeted over 44,000 times, mainly because instead of the classic two-handed "mommy's and partner's hands on the baby bump" pose, there's a third hand—and it's actually a paw.

The human subjects of this picture are Whitney (Talia's sister) and Jeremy Bowie. The canine one is their enthusiastic rat terrier, Lucy. Whitney told BuzzFeed that they were doing a traditional maternity shoot with her mother taking pictures, and that Lucy was hell bent on being part of them, jumping up on their legs. So they relented, because, as Whitney said, Lucy is "part of [their] family." But no, she's not the father.

Joe Biden celebrated his BFF Barack Obama's birthday with a literal friendship bracelet.

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Today is President Obama's 55th birthday. And Joe Biden, the President's second-in-command and best friend at summer camp, knew exactly what to get him: friendship bracelets! OMG!

These bracelets are actually from this BuzzFeed video launched last month, aimed at increasing voter registration by showing "5 Things That Are Harder Than Registering To Vote."

Those activities include making friendship bracelets, like the one Barack made for his Vice President and best buddy, Joe. But though this might seem like just another PR move, trust us, it doesn't get more real than their best friendship. No doubt Barack and Joe will wear these bracelets 4-ever and ever, or at least until they deteriorate one day in the shower.

People shared stories of the most effort they ever put into being lazy.

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There’s a certain art to being lazy. Ironically, it takes a lot of effort—mental effort, not physical effort—to keep doing as little as possible for as long as possible. But then desperate situations call for desperate measures, as these people on Reddit confessed.

1. Sometimes clapping is just too much work for Albuyeh.

Used to have one of those 'clap on, clap off' lights in my room. I hated clapping so I just made an audio recording of me clapping and mapped it to one of the programmable keys on my keyboard.

2. Adman130 knows that the worst part of exercise is the exercise.

Our family got a Wii Fit. I wanted to play it but not work out, so I calibrated the board to the weight of my legs when I'm sitting down.

3. Or squirmdragon is just utilizing their skills, and they're better at yelling than they are at picking up stuff.

While laying in my bed, I called someone in the livingroom to come pick up the remote I dropped. They did it.

4. At least CantChangeMe cleaned it first. Folding it is just too much, you know?

I sent like 50 lbs of clean laundry to FlyCleaners (the pickup and return laundry service) because I didn't feel like folding it.

5. This example from thegreatwhoredini isn't so much lazy as it is time- and cost-effective.

I wore a hole in a pair of black leggings and didn't feel like taking them off to stitch it so I just colored the skin exposed with black permanent marker.

6. User imdayv recommends this solution for someone who is both sick and lazy.

When a friend of mine has a cold he can't be bothered to keep wiping his nose when it runs, so he just jams Kleenex up his nostrils. He walks around in public like this.

7. Yeah, but wearelasers did have to set up a torrent, which seems like a lot of work. Easier to just replay the movie in your mind.

Instead of going over to the shelf 10 feet away from me to grab a movie to watch, I torrented it.

8. Sorry, tongue of rschoey17, but hands have seniority.

I was watch netflix and the pointer was in the middle of the screen. Unfortunately I had already put my hands under the blanket I was using. Used my tongue to move the pointer using the mousepad.

9. Subduction saved both water and time.

I put plastic wrap over a dirty plate and ate off it because I didn't want to wash a single plate.

10. Walking and cleaning in the same day? No thanks, says BridgetteBane.

Put the dishes in the shower and hosed them off because the sink was on the first floor of the dorm. The showers were only 15 feet from my dorm room.

That's a lie. Throwing away my dishes because the shower was too far away, that was the low point.

11. If looking up the weather on your phone instead of out the window is considered lazy, Crushco_ escalated things considerably.

I rang my sister to find out the weather rather than pull up my blind.

12. Domerhead is smart and their roommate is dumb. Any exploitation is fair.

I really wanted to read, but it had just gotten dark, I hadn't turned my light on yet, and I didn't want to get out of bed (was just waking up from a nap). So I called to my roommate who was on the other side of the wall to "come check this really cool thing out!". He walked in the room all excited, and I just said "look what happens when you pull that string!" He glared at me, turned my light on and left without saying a word.

13. User IAMA_dingleberry_AMA is so lazy that they got a cat, the world's laziest animal, to do stuff they didn't want to do.

I have a dog and a cat, and I HATE sleeping with the door open. Sometimes dog wants to sleep in the bedroom, sometimes dog wants to sleep outside the bedroom. But he never decides until I'm comfy in bed. Solution? Keep a laser pointer on my nightstand. Once dog decides where he's sleeping, I'll shine the laser pointer on the door so that my cat paws it closed. It has now become a routine that my cat will wait by the door for the laser before laying down.

14. For Stratomaster21, it's Nerf or nothing. Nothing won.

Shot ~10 nerf darts at my light switch, from bed. Missed all of them and slept with the lights on.

15. Liberal_irony got it in 30 minutes or less! Hot, too!

Had pizza delivered... The pizza place is next door

16. User alexandruh could've shoveled the snow off the car, but all that cold air is bad for the lungs.

This reminded me of a time when I ordered a cab to get cigarettes. It had just snowed and I hadn't shoveled the snow off my car yet. There's this gas station about 3 blocks away but I was too lazy and cold to walk. So I ordered a cab to drive me to the gas station and wait and then bring me home. He looked at me like I was nuts.

17. This deleted user knows that sometimes chores just take care of themselves.

I never reset the clock in my car for daylight savings,... I just wait 6 months, then it's right again.


Taylor Swift celebrated Karlie Kloss's birthday via Face Time because girl squads never die.

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Taylor Swift has been in the news a lot recently for her feuds with ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris and ex-friends Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. But all that drama didn't stop Taylor from taking some time out of her busy day yesterday to celebrate BFF Karlie Kloss's 24th birthday.

First, Taylor gave Karlie a birthday shout out by posting this selfie on Instagram.

Later, Karlie tweeted a photo of her and Taylor's Face Time date, with the caption: "When you're halfway around the world & your best friend still finds a way to celebrate 24 with you."

Nothing says "best friends" like a beautiful sunset Face Time session complete with a vase of flowers for decoration. It's nice to know that Tay Tay still has real friends that won't accuse her of being a sneaky snake.

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18 people who are pumped to be part of the 'Pussy Generation.'

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Clint Eastwood thinks there's a simple reason everyone is calling Trump's constant racism and constant encouragement of racists "racist": America is being ruined by a "Pussy Generation." This from a man who was invited to speak truth to power at the 2012 RNC and chose to yell incoherently at a chair instead.

Well, a lot of Millennials and Gen Xers (it's unclear who exactly Eastwood meant. Everyone under 70?) were struggling to understand what's wrong with pussy. Pussy is great. Pussy don't quit. Pussy is getting elected President, Clint, so maybe you better join up.

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Ashton Kutcher had the most Ashton Kutcher reaction to his 2-year-old dropping an F-bomb.

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Ashton Kutcher's face said it all on Tuesday in an Instagram he took after hearing his daughter say a bad word. Kutcher looks just like every other parent whose toddler swears in front of them: he knows the kid learned the word by hearing it from him. Specifically, his 22-month-old daughter with Mila Kunis, Wyatt, said the word fudge. Only she didn't say fudge.

Here's Kuston face after he got punk'd by his daughter:

Oops. Young Wyatt will learn plenty more colorful words if she watches Chicago Bears games this season with her old man.

Fit mom posts selfies moments apart to tell the truth about post-baby abs.

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Every time someone tells the truth about abs and posture, it can't help but go viral for providing a much-needed dose of reality not seen in magazines. Anna Strobe is an Australian fitness fanatic and mother of twins whose Instagram is all about designing home workouts for busy moms (are as they say in Australia, "mums.")

On August 3rd, she posted two stomach selfies taken seconds apart. In the seated picture her skin sags, because that's how skin works.

She writes in the caption:

2 pictures taken moments apart. The pic on the right is one that might resemble what you see as you scroll your Instagram feed each day. The pic on the right probably reminds you of the ones you think you could never possibly share with the world. Polar opposites ~ but guess what, I've decided that both pictures MAKE ME PROUD.


Everyday we are surrounded by images that are supposed to represent 'perfection' but why can't the pic on the left represent perfection too?! The pic on the left represents what my body is capable of ~ growing 2 babies, yes! Little humans that have come into the world and made me the happiest mumma in the whole wide world! It's not easy for me to do this, I promise you as I post this I am no joke absolutely shit*ing myself but the reason I'm doing this is to show you we're ALL REAL! We all have things we wish we could change, it's easy to get caught up in the perfect world of social media but DON'T! Because behind every image is someone that has things they wish they could change too. Be proud, be kind, love your body for what it has done. Stretch marks, loose skin, bellies and saggy boobs - embrace it mummas because you are BEAUTIFUL

Strode is a personal trainer whose other feats include doing a fitness circuit while at the park with her twins:

And by the water with her twins:

And at home with her twins.

Fitting workouts into #mumlife can be TOUGH! Trust me, I know firsthand! Once upon a time I would go to the gym and workout when I wanted, where I wanted and for how long I wanted! That seems like SUCH a crazy way to do things now 😂😋 How easy was LIFE back then?! Hehe wouldn't change my new life for the world though 😍💕 Now I just fit it in when I can and how I can. So sometimes that means working out in the yard while the boys play ~ sometimes it means fitting in a quick sweat while they nap or have a snack and sometimes it means just getting down on the floor and sneakily fitting it in while they're being clingy and wanting mummy 🌟💕 You know what I do sometimes in those moments when they're crying at my legs and wanting to be picked up but then you pick them up and they want to be put back down because they seriously have no idea what they want 🙉😩 ~ I get down on the floor and let them crawl all over me while I do a few exercises ~ they LOVE it! You should hear the giggles 💙😂 This is often our afternoon routine if they wake grumpy from their nap and I'm struggling to calm them both down, literally cheers them up in a heartbeat hehe 🙌😛 and of course the added bonus is that it gives me a little kick of energy too 👌🙋 PS - I would love for the boys blinds to be open and look out to the nice garden but their window is covered in tin foil to make the room pitch back so they sleep! Anyone with sleep troubles will know this trick - I'm totally way to scared to ever pull that foil down #foil4life 😂😂

A video posted by Anna Strode ~ Fit Twin Mummy (@bubs2bikinis) on

London is getting a 'fellatio cafe' that is exactly what it sounds like.

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Mornings can be hard (sorry). To remedy this, London is getting a fellatio café and to be very clear: yes, there will literally be blow jobs for sale at this café. And coffee! This is great news if you're one of those guys who's like "Don't even talk to me until I've had my coffee and a BJ!"

Behind this bold business plan is Bradley Charvet, who is launching his first blow job cafe in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2016. He announced the plan for a London branch on Twitter, though no opening date has been set.

There may be some legal hurdles, since prostitution itself is legal in the UK but running a brothel is a crime. Yet Charvet seems optimistic he can make it work. "We are happy this will be a legal business in the UK, which is nice because it will be organized and controlled," he said. "At the moment, our lawyer is doing the job to get the right stuff done."

From the official website.

Like the Geneva branch, the café will serve coffee, tea, and some pastries, and customers will be given an iPad from which they can choose an escort to perform oral sex on them, starting at a base charge of £50 (about $66).

Some people on Twitter are not happy about the plan.

While others have a more nuanced take.

And for comedians, it's a dream come (sorry) true.

Couple wins legal battle to give their kid a name that isn't even that weird.

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Spanish couple Nako and Maria Javierre had to fight to give their son a unique name that frankly isn't even that unique. The couple were anticipating naming their newborn baby "Lobo," the Spanish word for "wolf," for several months before Maria gave birth. But were told by the Fuenlabrada registry office in Madrid that the name was too offensive. To who, rabbits and other smaller prey?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, what?

Here in America we have kind of heard it all, so hearing that "Wolf" is not an acceptable name for a baby is kind of shocking. We have Apple, Blue Ivy, North West, Pilot Inspektor, Blanket. Hell, we even have a Wolf of our very own. I wonder what he would call the people who are saying that his name is offense.

After many failed attempts at trying to convince the Fuenlabrada registry that the name they chose is perfectly acceptable, the couple decided to harness the power of social media through an online petition that garnered over 25,000 signatures backing their decision. Spanish authorities reviewed the petition and finally gave the Javierres the okay to name their Lobo.

It really is a pretty cool name. And besides, nothing is cuter than a baby wolf.

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Pilot who posts cockpit selfies and bikini pics is the latest Instagram sensation.

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Maria Pettersson has forever earned her place in the Western canon of Instagram stars by combining sexy photos with travel photos with a healthy dose of feminist empowerment.

"My story is about strong females in a male dominated environment," says the 32-year-old Ryanair pilot. "Proving that we are just as good as them. Believing in ourselves and keeping a positive attitude towards life."

You could say Maria Pettersson is taking the internet by storm, but then you'd have to slam your ears in an oven door for using that metaphor. But you get it. Cleanse your palette with more photos.

Originally from Sweden, Maria started flying when she was 25. Just small planes at first, before she eventually found a job flying a Boeing 737 for Ryanair. She now lives in Sicily, where she returns after leading flights all around the continent.

Meanwhile, Maria's blog gives advice to aspiring pilots while chronicling her journey across the skies, turbulence and all!. Check it out, or just enjoy her Instagram.

Fly as Air, Flow with Water. Happy mind = Happy life 🙌 Island Life before work ☀️☀

A photo posted by Maria (@pilotmaria) on

Always a little bit crazier on CrazySunday 😜

A photo posted by Maria (@pilotmaria) on

Selfie with my metal bird. Wish you all a great start of the week ☀

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Uh oh, Melania Trump might have been an illegal immigrant.

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Melania Trump may have violated the terms of her visa by doing modeling work when she first immigrated to the United States, making her—gasp—potentially an "illegal immigrant," despite Donald Trump's vitriolic anti-immigration platform. Take it away, Alanis:

The damning evidence comes in the form of Melania's recently publicized nude photoshoot, which places her in the United States in 1995, despite telling people that she first came to the U.S. in 1996. Trump has made statements in the past telling people that she first arrived in the country on a short-term visa, of which her modeling work would have been in violation. Melania (or, let's be real, her spokeswoman) denied any wrongdoing:

But as Politico points out, the statement noticeably ignores any modeling work she might have done before '96:

By specifying the year 1996, Trump’s statement conspicuously avoids addressing multiple reports and photographs that place her in the United States and working as a model in 1995, as well as a statement by Trump’s Slovenian biographer to POLITICO that she was performing modeling work in the United States that was not "technically" legal during her first trips there in 1995.

And Trump’s former roommate in New York, Matthew Atanian, told POLITICO’s Julia Ioffe in April that the two shared an apartment during a period that spanned 1995 to 1996.

Melania became an American citizen after her 2005 marriage to Donald Trump (prior to that, she received a green card in 2001). But, according to experts interviewed by Politico, any visa fraud could potentially call her legal status into question.

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Muslim US government employees removed from plane because crew felt 'unsafe.'

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Two Muslim United States government employees were recently booted from a plane in Miami because the flight attendant felt "unsafe." Niala Mohammad, a multimedia journalist for the government-funded outlet Voices of America, and her friend, who remained anonymous because of her job, were booted from the plane for reasons that escape them.

These two young women were so threatening that the Miami-Dade police officers posed for a picture with them.

She went on to say in a Facebook post...

For being such a ‘threat’ to an AA attendant, it’s telling that the Miami-Dade police officers joked with us and posed for this picture with the ‘pretty harmless’ airplane menaces.

Last night my friend and I were removed from American Airlines (AA) flight 2239 traveling from Miami International...

Posted by Niala Khalil on Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Basically Mohammad and her friend had an exchange with a male flight attendant that didn't go so well. Mohammad watched a Pakistani show on her iPhone while her friend chatted with a white male passenger about the lack of water provided while they waited on the tarmac for three hours. The male flight attendant was all, I can get you kicked off this plane for inciting passengers, and that's exactly what he did. Mohammad wrote:

...customer relations representative Ms. Lourdes Broco boarded the plane and kindly asked if we could follow her to the front. We happily consented, hoping we were finally going to be provided with water, but instead we were told to bring our belongings... Waiting for us at the ramp were several armed Air Marshalls [sic] and Miami-Dade police officers.

At the time, Mohammad didn't understand why she and her friend were kicked off the flight. She told BuzzFeed News:

It didn’t occur to me at the time that it might have been about how we look but then I thought about the white passenger male in back of us who my friend was talking to. He wasn’t spoken to rudely, even addressed or asked any questions... Maybe it was because I was watching a Pakistani drama (show), or our name, or because my friend had a giant evil eye bracelet on. Or maybe it was because we were darker, especially after being on vacation in Miami.

They were rebooked on another (friendlier) flight, got a food voucher, and a $200 credit towards another flight. Because nothing makes up for bigotry like free food, right?

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