Wow, didn’t expect to see Clevatess here.

Noted.

Yes that’s the whole point I’m making here. Why would it be sexist?

People actively physically harming others aren’t “assholes”, they are criminals.

Okay? That has nothing to do with anything I said.

The combination with his obvious believe in the inferiority of women makes it a fucking hate crime.

Well that’s certainly your assumption, but you haven’t actually backed it up with anything.

You’re arguing past my point and not really addressing anything I actually said?

Are you really comparing sitting next to a woman would be akin to sexual assault, in a society where men and women are treated as equals?

No? I’m comparing it to something like hugs, which are acceptable cross-gender greetings in some places but limited to the same gender in others. That doesn’t make places where the latter holds anti-democratic. I thought I was clear enough on that, but I’m not justifying what the man in the OP did; I’m just saying jumping from that to “disrespect for democratic values” is reading more into the story than there is to it. Plain entitlement is sufficient to explain everything we see here, and there’d have been no problem had the man been more respectful about what he was trying to do (for example by looking for someone to switch seats with). This is ultimately a problem of how he went about it, not of what he was trying to do.

You’re arguing past my point and not really addressing anything I actually said?

Are you really comparing sitting next to a woman would be akin to sexual assault, in a society where men and women are treated as equals?

No? I’m comparing it to something like hugs, which are acceptable cross-gender greetings in some places but limited to the same gender in others. That doesn’t make places where the latter holds anti-democratic. I thought I was clear enough on that, but I’m not justifying what the man in the OP did; I’m just saying jumping from that to “disrespect for democratic values” is reading more into the story than there is to it. Plain entitlement is sufficient to explain everything we see here, and there’d have been no problem had the man been more respectful about what he was trying to do (for example by looking for someone to switch seats with).

Physically attacking the female flight attendant shows this isn’t something about “beliefs about cross-gender contact”, its about seeing women as inferior.

Or he could just be an entitled asshole. There’s no point in making judgements without enough information, and it’s not like being entitled justifies punching a flight attendant in the face.

This is an extreme level of sexist discrimination, that goes against fundamental values of a modern democracy.

Well that escalated quickly. More seriously, while the man in the OP is definitely entitled, what he wanted was not inherently sexist. Having strict beliefs about cross-gender contact can lead to sexism, but isn’t that in and of itself. Most cultures out there put some limit on what unrelated men and women can do or where they can be together, and those limits can be fairly benign as long as they don’t lead people to do things like assault flight attendants.

To be fair, it could be sold as Tex-Mex. I don’t know if it would work, but theoretically it could.

I don’t know how cheap Mexico is relative to America, but given cost of living differences I doubt they’ll be selling $20 burritos.

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Romans eat donuts?

But what if you needed to do long division in the shower?

I firmly believe sushi should be eaten with hands.

America has plenty of morons and plenty of Nazis, but that’s not the deciding factor. What China has and America doesn’t here is a responsive ruling class with a positive vision for the future.

Good point.

That’s Keikō (long vowel), which is different from Keiko. This guy also almost definitely didn’t exist, but that’s beside the point.

Not the best time to say this, but… uh… Keiko is a girl’s name.

Accidentally halal^2.

For what it’s worth, I laughed.