&gt; <i>I personally don&#x27;t wish to touch other women than my wife. It&#x27;s a personal conviction to be respected.</i><p>So rubbing elbows with men on a flight is fine, but rubbing elbows with women is some sort of unfaithfulness? Oh, please. I don&#x27;t wish to touch anyone on a flight, but hey, we&#x27;re crammed in there like sardines, shit happens. The gender of the sardine next to you has exactly what effect on the elbow-sized contact patch you share with them?<p>You&#x27;re also reading this situation as being solely confined to the event of the flight, rather than the overall social movement. Any single action can be stripped of context and sterilised that way. Take a racist who is always rude to blacks and no other: every single incidence of rudeness could be explained away with &quot;oh, maybe that guy deserved it&quot;, but when you look at the overall pattern, it&#x27;s clear what&#x27;s going on.