A woman has taken to Twitter to express her outrage after she was told by Southwest Airlines employees that her outfit was inappropriate prior to boarding her flight.
Wearing a black, v-neck style top and a long red skirt, Kayla Eubanks said that staff from the airline deemed her outfit "lewd, obscene and offensive".
The incident was recounted by Eubanks in a now-viral Twitter thread that has received over 23.2K likes.
Sharing a picture of her outfit on Twitter, Eubanks wrote: "Y'all I was KICKED OFF my @SouthwestAir flight because my boobs are 'lewd, obscene and offensive.' I was told that passengers may look at me in my attire and be offended. The attire in question [sic]"
This @SouthwestAir employee practically did cartwheels to ensure that I wouldn't get on this plane y'all. I was held at the gate for 30 minutes because of my shirt [sic]," Eubanks continued.
Kayla then shared video evidence of her ordeal which you can watch below:It was at this point that the captain got involved and told her that she was being hated on.
The @SouthwestAir employee stopped looking for this policy and caught the Captain coming out of the bathroom and asked him to intervene. He literally comes out saying that they're hating on me," Eubanks wrote.
Watch the captain's reaction to the 'lewd' outfit below:Eubanks was then loaned a shirt to enable her to board the flight, and she was once again told off when she eventually removed it.
She wrote: "The CAPTAIN of the flight loaned me his shirt so that I could board (having been removed from the flight and the flight being delayed). I eventually took it off.. [sic] Only to be told that I would have to speak with a supervisor upon landing."
Eubanks then recorded the conversations she had with supervisors on arrival.
"This video begins with me giving the captain back his shirt (after the flight)," she explained alongside the clip. "This is the conversation the 2 supervisors had with me. One of them told me to 'Try it'.. listen to them... the tone in their voice and everything is flat out wrong. Make it make sense."
The supervisors stuck with their colleague's decision to tell Eubanks to coverup:And while Eubanks didn't agree with their decision, some people on Twitter did.
One wrote: "All for freedom to express urself as u please but time & place. Ur body itself isn't lewd or obscene, however the outfit was. They have a degree of responsibility to their business & patrons. It's routine to ask for some decorum. I don’t think u have a case based on ur approach [sic]."
However, a second jumped to Eubanks' defense, writing: "cover up what i don't see no nipples y'all police and sexualize black bodies too much @SouthwestAir we need to talk [sic]."
