Crosspost "AITA for not wanting to move to a middle seat on a plane because a woman didn't want to sit between two men?" from /r/AmItheAsshole:

Mate and I (both 26 & 27M) flew from Madrid to Frankfurt for the wedding of our friend who lives there now and used seat selection to pick an aisle for him and a window for me in the same row hoping it would be empty and no one sat there.

A woman also in her 20s came and realised she was in the middle seat and that my mate and I knew each other. She asked if she could not in the middle of us.

We said "should have seat selected then, no".

She explained that this is her connecting flight via codeshare and she could only seat select on the main legs of her flight with the airline operating them, but not this ticket. (Frankfurt to Singapore and then Singapore to somewhere in Australia).

We told her "too bad".

We didn't want to move seats. We were disappointed someone was put in the middle but I wanted the window, mate wanted the aisle.

Instead of accepting this, she started typing something on her phone and flagged down a flight attendant and passed them the phone. I guess she complained in that way instead of having the guts to do it so we could hear.

Flight attendant then said we had to move so she was not sitting in the middle.

My mate is claustrophobic and really likes the aisle, I didn't want to move from window either because I like looking out during landing. They doubled down and said one of us has to move so I said "fine, bitch can have the window". She objected to the window because "being between two large men who are strangers and a wall was "triggering and uncomfortable".

I rolled my eyes and she said "i have been both assaultd and groped by men before, I'm not comfortable about it and this is triggering my anxiety".

A guy sitting across from us called us both assholes, gave her his seat on the aisle and the flight attendants made my made go in the middle and let that guy have the aisle. He also blocked us getting up and off the plane until she was gone and off, and we were given a ton of dirty looks.

The flight attendants were really rude when we spoke to them at the end of the flight. They seemed to have decided that we are douchebags and ignored our complaints.

Were we the douches? She wasn't going to get attacked on a plane, and I'm honestly sick of women crying "me too" and "anxiety" to get out of things. You drew the middle seat short straw, suck it up princess.

Posted by griezmannbarcelona | 13 July 2019 | Link