Becky Pokora from Forbes Advisor, and who has written extensively for The Points Guy, found herself in an airport lounge where a man was… taking off his pants.
Gentlemen, stop it. Just stop it.
A man from my cruise just took his pants off in the airport lounge. Y'all, this is not the scenery I signed up for.
— Becky Pokora (@sightDOING) March 4, 2023
Believe it or not, going pantsless during air travel isn’t that uncommon.
Before the pandemic, a man stepped out of a coach lavatory on his Paris – Los Angeles flight having removed his pants. He spent the entire flight in boxer shorts. And the story involves a ukulele. Air France flight attendants would not ask him to put his pants back on. The man got cold inflight so he put on a jacket – but not his pants – and that’s how he got off the plane as well.
Just landed. 2 hours in he stood up and took 4 mini bottles of wine from the cart. Then he fell asleep. Then 6 hours in he got cold so PUT ON HIS PUFFY JACKET pic.twitter.com/wNFq9L2bkH
— Lizzie Thompson (@Lizzie_Thompson) February 18, 2019
A LOT Polish passenger recently took off their pants and urinated on a plane door. And a JetBlue passenger took down his pants in frustration over a flight delay.
This comes after one man and then another urinated on women in business class on Air India. It’s also happened on American and JetBlue and easyJet and United.
The underappreciated MTV sketch comedy show The State addressed the issue of a man who doesn’t know about the importance of wearing pants nearly 30 years ago. Perhaps it’s time for a re-run on airline entertainment systems.
I am saddened to have to say this, but pants should remain fully on, except when you’re in the lavatory or in a bathroom stall.
LOL, the only peeps who are going to be put out by wearing pants are the men of Virgin who were hoping to wear skirts. (n.b. not kilts, there’s a difference)
Welcome to FL.
“I am saddened to have to say this, but pants should remain fully on, except when you’re in the lavatory or in a bathroom stall.”
Or if you’re the Maestro and you don’t want to ruin the crease in your pants before a performance. It’s an old conductor’s trick I learned from Leonard Bernstein. #Seinfeld
Thought leadership
If women can wear skimpy clothing, I don’t see why men cant.
We live in a world where people are allowed to wear the clothes that match their perceived gender (not their biological gender), so I do not know how you could enforce that all men must wear pants, much less keep them on. Besides that, you would have to define a man which leads to so many complex complications (the last nominated Supreme Court Justice declined to define a woman during her senate confirmation hearings).
Many people wear what I deem as “indecent” clothing exposing far to much flesh but my feelings are irrelevant in today’s society. We live in a permissive society, and it’s becoming impossible to fight the wave of insanity.
Once saw a women flossing in the middle of a crowded international luggage belt (secure area) in Brazil, her luggage was tagged from an Argentina flight.
OK, this is the last straw. Men removing their pants when travelling. Who the hell cares??? Is this blog being written by Artificial Intelligence? Is it aimed at Kardashian fans? I’ll be ignoring this ‘news you can use’ for 30 days to see if anything improves, or if it all degenerates into a National Enquirer blog.
Not sure if I should say this or not, lol… but I oftentimes wear regular workout shorts under my pants for long-haul flights (always in biz/first…not that should make any difference). I usually go to the lavs and emerge in my shorts.
Once on a flight that involved rear facing biz seats where someone could clearly see me, there was a lot of turbulence and the seatbelt sign was on for a long time. I started a brief chat with the elderly lady who had a clear view of me. I mentioned that I had “real shorts’ underneath my pants, and so don’t be alarmed if I went into them. She made a light-hearted joke (unfortunately I don’t remember exactly what she said), but she was clearly not concerned.
I slept in comfort.
You know what is also inappropriate? Taking pictures like this of people on the plane and uploading it to the internet. You want to complain then complain to the flight crew. If you want to take pictures and upload to the internet you are a bottom dweller and nothing more.
Maybe it makes him feel sexy and empowered as a woman. And we all know you can’t argue that and your kids have to look at him in his underwear and your suppose to accept that.
Oh wait, it’s a man. Then what a Pervy creeper.
Women wear tighter, shorter, and more revealing shorts on airplanes, at the supermarket, in restaurants, picking up kids at school and everywhere else. The woman author is extremely sexist in complaining about men’s boxers.
No, it is not sexist. Men’s boxers can “bulge” in a lewd way. Women’s equivalent clothing cannot. I am a man, for what that’s worth.
For those who remember, just ask the Man on Page 602 why one should wear pants on an airplane.
(Refer to Sears Catalog, Fall/Winter 1975)
Oh. I thought it was going to be about Scottish kilts and Greek fustanellas and Japanese kimonos. Never mind. Yes, outside of the lavatory, I believe that men should keep their pants on, and be attired in tradional country club long pants and collared shirt. Given prevailing U.S. civil rights law, good luck with that.
Exception: I saw a real he-man attired in Polaris pajamas. Just standing by his Polaris cocoon with the United Polaris letters stretched out by his massive back and shoulder muscles, every lady in the business cabin fell into a dreamy sleep….and then at breakfast time, too, every lady’s appetite was aroused. I guess he wore the pajamas bottoms, too.
@Corporate wage slave – You must be unfamiliar with the infamous “Camel Toe.”
“Before the pandemic, a man stepped out of a coach lavatory on his Paris – Los Angeles flight having removed his pants.” Vive la France.
I hate wearing pants. But I also believe in the decency laws. Air travel becomes more and more uncomfortable as seating becomes smaller and smaller. Pants bind a man right where he doesn’t want to be bound. Recently I’ve flown several times in a kilt and was surprisingly comfortable. I had no idea why I hated pants until I wore a kilt. No bunching/binding in anatomically sensitive areas whilst still respecting the eyes of my fellow passenger. In fact, I’ve never received so many compliments. Perhaps a kilt isn’t for every man. Which may explain why we use the qualifying phrase “size isn’t everything” to comfort the less fortunate.