{"id":15724,"date":"2017-08-07T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/?p=15724"},"modified":"2017-08-07T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T12:55:02","slug":"rich-celeb-lena-dunham-tattletales-hard-working-airline-workers-transphobic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/08\/rich-celeb-lena-dunham-tattletales-hard-working-airline-workers-transphobic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Celeb Lena Dunham Tattletales on Hard Working Airline Workers for Being &#8216;Transphobic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15727\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/156\/2017\/08\/Lena_Dunham_TFF_2012_Shankbone_2-e1501820258395.jpg\" alt=\"Lena_Dunham_TFF_2012_Shankbone_2\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\"><\/p>\n<p>Lena Dunham, whom I\u2019ve written about many times before, is at it again. \u00a0The creator of HBO\u2019s <em>Girls<\/em>, the ultra-lefty celeb who likes to be naked, the one who encouraged everyone to vote for Barack Obama and then Hillary Clinton, the one who wrote horrible things about her sister, is now complaining to American Airlines over supposedly transphobic jokes she heard while flying.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, really. \u00a0According to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/airline-lena-dunhams-claims-employees-engaged-transphobic-talk\/story?id=49011663\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>ABC News<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her flight on another airline was delayed for hours Wednesday at New York City\u2019s John F. Kennedy International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham, 31,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lenadunham\/status\/893001375956774912\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0that the \u201cworst part of this night\u201d waiting at the airport came when she overheard two American Airlines\u2019 \u201cattendants having a transphobic talk.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Literally, there\u2019s no telling what rules of political correctness these employees broke, not realizing they were walking by a tattle tale celebrity who\u2019s out to shame them and possibly make them lose their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>This is what she tweeted:\u00a0\u201cAt this moment in history we should be teaching our employees about love and inclusivity @AmericanAir. That was worst part of this night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">At this moment in history we should be teaching our employees about love and inclusivity <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericanAir\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@AmericanAir<\/a>. That was worst part of this night.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lenadunham\/status\/893001681776128000\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Then, she apparently messaged with the airline the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nWell this night just keeps evolving <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gYfXadYBUH\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gYfXadYBUH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lenadunham\/status\/893004544036286466\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 3, 2017<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br>\nThe message says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi. I heard 2 female attendants walking talking about how trans kids are a trend they\u2019d never accept a transchild and transness is gross. I think it reflects badly on uniformed employees of your company to have that kind of dialogue going on. What if a trans teen was walking behind them? Awareness starts at home, but jobs can set standards of practice. Thanks for your consideration!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News <\/em>reports than an investigation is now open on the incident:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are looking into these allegations,\u201d the statement began. \u201cFrom the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity is a way of life at American Airlines. Every day, our team members work to make American a place where people of all generations, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, religious affiliations and backgrounds feel welcome and valued.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>ABC News has not confirmed if the people Dunham tweeted about were airline or airport employees, or what company they worked for. Dunham\u2019s Instagram Story appears to have shown the actress later on a Delta Air Lines flight, which operates out of a different terminal than American Airlines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good grief! \u00a0What about respecting the people who are working hard to put food on their tables, not realizing a wealthy Hollywood liberal was eavesdropping on their conversation and subsequently telling their boss about it?<\/p>\n<p>I liked this tweet by Matt Walsh about the whole thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alternate headline: Spoiled, rich former celebrity desperately trolls for relevancy by throwing hardworking airline attendants under the bus <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j1BFHYNG9Y\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/j1BFHYNG9Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/893259818806456320\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By David Shankbone (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rich Celeb Lena Dunham Tattletales on Hard Working Airline Workers for Being &#039;Transphobic&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Really?\" 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