Over the weekend, United Airlines made headlines for a very dumb reason when a gate agent refused to let three women on a flight because they were wearing leggings. Leggings! Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts live-tweeted the incident, which quickly went viral for obvious reasons — however once United Airlines was made aware, the airline stuck by its guns and claimed that the ladies were in violation of the dress code policy.
The passengers this morning were United pass riders who were not in compliance with our dress code policy for company benefit travel.
— United Airlines (@united) March 26, 2017
Not surprisingly, this sparked even more outrage on Twitter, and many celebrities began railing against United over the unpopular decision, including the always outspoken Chrissy Teigen, who tweeted, “I have flown united before with literally no pants on. Just a top as a dress. Next time I will wear only jeans and a scarf.”
Lots of outlets picked up on Teigen’s tweet (ours included) such as Fox News, which tweeted out a link to its article, tagging the model in the process:
.@chrissyteigen speaks out against @united for banning girls from boarding their flight because they wore leggings. https://t.co/MfJossREO7 pic.twitter.com/h38GMWJL2B
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 27, 2017
Now, Teigen has never shied away from her liberal viewpoints (or picking fights with conservative figures, for that matter), so let’s just say that she wasn’t exactly flattered by the right-leaning news network’s nod her way, which provoked her to fire back with the following tweet:
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/846408894268137472
Annnnnd, of course, the internet reacted accordingly:
Me reading @chrissyteigen's great tweet. pic.twitter.com/aQmKH9u8RW
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) March 27, 2017
@FloraidhCC @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/fWQIilkRNv
— Kellie Dawson (@BigFashionista) March 27, 2017
yaaaaas pic.twitter.com/svmlhH07Qz
— jordan young (@TheRealJYoung) March 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/WMB72buckeye/status/846438420641669120
@mmfa @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/yVRKfZHIQE
— Mel stands for women’s rights (@MelSchroeder) March 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/ChrltncDave/status/846444443184103424
https://twitter.com/MarcHomer/status/846444559617818624
https://twitter.com/putaonika/status/846413293883461632