Women Videotapes Man Banging on Her Seat After She Reclines -Who's Right?

[Anonymous]

The guy is wrong. Full stop.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, anti-recliners, do you understand that the majority of us are saying that you are exaggerating the effects of a reclined seat? I am tall and I can still use my laptop, can still get up to go to the bathroom, can still eat food, can still read a book, etc with the seat in front of me reclined. You do understand that these seats recline on a pivot, right? 3 inches less space at the top does not mean 3 inches less space at your knees.

You are being as ridiculous as the money-grabbing woman in the video. Oh woe is me, the horrors! My knees! My back! My baby! The dandruff! Lack of air! I can't breathe! Help!

Come on now, tone it down.

You seem to forget that it wasn’t the so-called “anti-recliners” who started this thread. It was a bunch of people claiming it’s simply impossible—impossible!—to last an entire flight sitting upright.

How dare someone point out that my efforts to grab more space for myself are actually taking space away from them! Screw them! It’s my right!! Let them eat cake!

If they want to take away the recline feature on planes that actually doesn’t bother me nearly as much as telling people they may only recline with the “permission” of the person behind them. It’s either allowed or it isn’t.

You are the type of person who goes through life getting all sorts of eye rolls and dirty looks from other people and then wonders why everyone around you is such an ahole. Aren't you?



You are the type who needs an adult in charge to make basic decisions for you, aren't you. The idea of having to use manners and basic common courtesy to handle something so simple is too much for you. That is sad.

Hey douchebag - it's bad manners and immoral to take something that belongs to someone else, period. Demanding that someone else not use a feature because you are too cheap to buy a seat you can fit in is on you.

[Anonymous]

Both handled this poorly. There’s a reason the flight attendant didn’t take the woman’s side.

[Anonymous]

He clearly cannot recline, and she just reclined without asking or caring that he has no where to go. People like that are jerks. I've had that happen to me and it's SO painful to sit like this for a long flight. For those who judge me for not shelling a thousand more, sorry I'm poor. That being said, he was childish, but that's not assault or banging, it no different than having a kid sit behind you. Both are dumb but she's worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He clearly cannot recline, and she just reclined without asking or caring that he has no where to go. People like that are jerks. I've had that happen to me and it's SO painful to sit like this for a long flight. For those who judge me for not shelling a thousand more, sorry I'm poor. That being said, he was childish, but that's not assault or banging, it no different than having a kid sit behind you. Both are dumb but she's worse.

Should the person in front of the woman not recline then? I’ve been in a seat that didn’t recline before and when the person ahead of me reclined, I figured sometimes, that’s the deal.

[Anonymous]

They are both *holes.

They were flying from New Orleans to Charlotte, it's a 2 hr flight. No reason they couldn't have behaved like adults for 2 hrs.

My guess is he asked her not to recline and while, yes, she has the right to do so, she could have respected his request and sucked it up for 2 hrs, but no, she decided to be a jerk and recline. Now maybe he wasn't polite in his request and she kept her seat reclined just to prove a point and be a jerk, who knows. He still should not have been hitting her seat. That is juvenile and shows a complete lack of self control.

[Anonymous]

The fundamental disagreement seems to be whether or not this man is in charge of this woman’s seat recline function or not.

[Anonymous]

I think it's generally to recline (yes, yes, I know that some people supposedly need to recline). That said, of course he is in the wrong here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fundamental disagreement seems to be whether or not this man is in charge of this woman’s seat recline function or not.

no the fundamental question is why can't people just decent humans? Yes, she has the right to recline her seat. He asked that she not do so. it's a 2 hr flight. She choose to be a jerk and not agree to stay upright for 2 hrs.

Why can't people have civil conversations, see things from someone else perspective and do the polite thing? sure it's her right to recline her seat but she could also take the high road. instead neither took the high road.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The fundamental disagreement seems to be whether or not this man is in charge of this woman’s seat recline function or not.

no the fundamental question is why can't people just decent humans? Yes, she has the right to recline her seat. He asked that she not do so. it's a 2 hr flight. She choose to be a jerk and not agree to stay upright for 2 hrs.

Why can't people have civil conversations, see things from someone else perspective and do the polite thing? sure it's her right to recline her seat but she could also take the high road. instead neither took the high road.

The “right” thing is a matter of opinion. Stop stating your opinion as fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are both *holes.

They were flying from New Orleans to Charlotte, it's a 2 hr flight. No reason they couldn't have behaved like adults for 2 hrs.

My guess is he asked her not to recline and while, yes, she has the right to do so, she could have respected his request and sucked it up for 2 hrs, but no, she decided to be a jerk and recline. Now maybe he wasn't polite in his request and she kept her seat reclined just to prove a point and be a jerk, who knows. He still should not have been hitting her seat. That is juvenile and shows a complete lack of self control.

This sums the whole thing up perfectly.

[Anonymous]

and to add to what I said above maybe if they had a civil conversation they could have better understood one another's point. He was cramped back there/couldn't eat his food and that she maybe she had a legit reason to recline (back issue or whatever). Empathy can go a long way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:and to add to what I said above maybe if they had a civil conversation they could have better understood one another's point. He was cramped back there/couldn't eat his food and that she maybe she had a legit reason to recline (back issue or whatever). Empathy can go a long way.

Which really brings it all back to: it’s the greedy airlines’ fault.

[Anonymous]

I am on the guy's side. I saw the CEO of another airline was interviewed (Delta) and he thought the guy was horrible. I dare the CEO to sit in one of those cramped seats with someone in front of them reclining. Make it a bald guy with a shiny head. I almost barfed on one at one point...it made me sick to see that in my lap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am on the guy's side. I saw the CEO of another airline was interviewed (Delta) and he thought the guy was horrible. I dare the CEO to sit in one of those cramped seats with someone in front of them reclining. Make it a bald guy with a shiny head. I almost barfed on one at one point...it made me sick to see that in my lap.

So fly another airline, fly business class, drive, or stay home. No one is forcing to you fly economy on American.