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The job of cabin crew members is not an easy one as they have to deal with unruly and intoxicated passengers on a regular basis. Amid controversies over the peeing incidents reported on Air India flights, there have been many incidents of passengers behaving arrogantly with crew members or fellow travellers.
A man shared on Twitter a similar incident in which an allegedly intoxicated passenger vomited on the aisle and defecated all around the toilet on an IndiGo flight from Guwahati to Delhi. However, the man is drawing flak for equating the situation to “girl power” instead of calling out the deplorable conditions that cabin crew have to deal with.
Bhaskar Dev Konwar, a lawyer practising at the Gauhati High Court, shared the incident on Twitter on March 26. He also posted a photo of the air hostess wearing mask and gloves cleaning the mess with tissues. “Indigo 6E 762 : Guwahati to Delhi.Intoxicated passenger vomited on the aisle and defecated all around the toilet.Leading lady Shewta cleaned up all the mess and all the girls managed the situation exceptionally well.Salute girl power,” he wrote in the tweet.
Many netizens called out Konwar for glorying the incident as “girl power”.
“The flight crew seem like victims here. This is a disgusting part of their job. Glorifying this as “girl power” is beyond my comprehension. This is similar to calling manual scavengers as the heroes of our society, instead of acknowledging that they are victims of corruption,” a user commented.
“I don’t exactly concur with the girl power part here. It’s disgusting to say the least, maybe not allowing drunk passagers on flights is the way forward. Kudos to the crew though. I am surprised the drunk passenger was let go,” said another. “This situation is disappointing and disgusting.. kudos to the crew for handling it so well,” another netizen wrote.
