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Feminist Rant on a Travel Blog? Why Yes It Is

Women don't have enough things that pander to just us (WE cable channel, Oprah, an entire genre of literature, any movie with Colin Firth) so luckily American Airlines has given us one more reason to wear pink and sip wine while laughing like school girls.

Yes, I'm being sarcastic. I would have been less so had American Airlines not used a photo of three women wearing pink and clinking their wine glasses. And why is the businesswoman gray and alone? No girlfriends to travel on business trips with?

Anyhoo, American Airlines has rolled out a Web site tailor made for women that purports to provide information just for us.

"This web page is about you -- our valued customer," it says.

Now if it did have information tailor made for me, a woman, I wouldn't lambast it.

But on their Web site I'm learning that I can't bring certain things on the flight per TSA (where would I be without this American Airlines site?! They've saved me from mistakingly bringing liquids in containers larger than 3 ounces with me), that I shouldn't get distracted lest I be attacked, and "refuse photos politely " at leisure aiports.

I would like to think that men should refuse photos politely as well.

-- KIMBERLY PIERCEALL
kpierceall@PE.com