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I totally agree that no-one needs to see excessive displays of affection in public places. I just feel the rules need to apply to all. It seems to me heterosexual couples are given a free frolicking pass. I have certainly been unable to find incidents where heterosexual couples were even admonished by airlines let alone thrown off airplanes

This reminds me of something that happened while I was playing a game on BFP the other day. Buzz Words is the game. I am all for not using derogatory terms for ethnic groups. However, the word “kike” is acceptable in this game while a variety of other ethnic slurs are not. One cannot help but feel discriminated against in cases such as this. If no disparaging terminology is acceptable then none should be accepted. If disparaging terminology is accepted then it should be accepted across the board. I felt worse about the fact that some or should I say at least one disparaging term is accepted while others are rejected than I would have been had all derogatory terminology been allowed. At least then it wouldn’t have felt like purposeful, selected, willful prejudice against one group.

I know it is a stretch to connect this to what happens regarding public displays of affection. However, I feel the rules for all paying customers should be the same. It’s that equity thing again. I would be just as happy, perhaps in some cases much happier, if there were no public displays of affection allowed at all. But to me it is grossly unfair to have a certain segment of the population forced to not only refrain from kissing their partner in public but to be forced to witness others exercising their right to do just that.