AITA for “abandoning” my (30M) sister (18F) in another country?

3,913 points2,011 commentssubmitted by Annoyedbrobro11 to r/AmItheAssholeThis is what a responsible brother does, to teach his sexist sister sexism has consequences, well done!

Last Sunday my sister and I were scheduled to board a flight home. We had been visiting another country together to visit some extended family. Said family lives in rural villages so takes quite a while to get there from the city.

Anyway, on our way through airport security my sister gets taken aside for a random pat down search... not sure what the proper name is. But my sister refuses as the person is a middle aged guy and she doesn’t want to be “groped by an old man” as she put it. She insists that a female pats her down. The guy explains in broken English that no females are available today and to let him search her, which she continues to refuse. This goes on for about 10 minutes, during which I continually ask my sister to just let him do his job, at which point I simply ask the guy if I can continue on. He says I can, so I apologise for my sister’s behaviour and do so.

I don’t know what happened after I left, but after about 30 minutes of sitting in the duty free area my sister txts me to come out. She says she was made to leave the security check point and is now being refused entry. I simply replied “I’m not delaying seeing my kids because you couldn’t swallow your pride and let the man do his job. I’m not coming out.”

She kept blowing up my phone, so I turned it on flight mode and eventually boarded my flight home. My parents (and sister obviously) think I acted incredibly cruelly by “abandoning” her. I disagree, she’s an adult now and should know better than to pull that nonsense in an airport of all places.

So AITA here?

My kids hadn’t seen me for almost a month. Not gonna delay seeing them for my moody sister.