So far, two women have come forward to say that Southwest Airlines asked them to cover up in order to fly.

It would be a bit awkward to sit next to someone scantily clad on a flight.

Then again, it's also been awkward for me to sit next to someone eyeing the barf bag and frantically reading the emergency exit information. (They didn't kick him off the flight.)

Also annoying - sitting next to a drunk Australian dude who leaned in a little too closely, a grandma who wanted to exchange recipes, and some kid who spent the whole trip playing videos games with the volume on full blast ("blip, bleep, blip, blip" for a few hours really gets old).

They didn't kick any of them off of the flights, either.

Unless these women were indecently exposed which is illegal, what makes them any worse to sit next to on mass transit than the next person?

I'm sure I've ridden on subways with worse characters.

If anything, I think this and Britney Spear's outfit at the VMAs should serve as a cultural wake-up call: Sometimes too much skin is not a good thing.

If your outfit is so bad that an airline attendent in 1960s looking polyester hands you a blanket, that's a big reality check for your fashion radar.

Then again, I'm not sure an airline can mandate common sense.