Would your reaction be the same if the passenger requesting a change had been, say, a female rape survivor being triggered by the man sitting next to her? If n

Would your reaction be the same if the passenger requesting a change had been, say, a female rape survivor being triggered by the man sitting next to her? If not, why do you get to be the one to determine which psychological distresses are legitimate to have, and which aren't? If you would say the same to that hypothetical, I suspect you would be called heartless, bigoted, whatever, when a sufficiently vocal and powerful class of people get offended by the application of this kind of opinion. AFAICT, all we really know is that it's "company policy" to try to accommodate these requests -- which due to things like the above I think is more tenable for the company in public-relations/customer-service terms -- but we don't know that it specifically says the man is to stay in his seat and the woman must move. Maybe that's what this particular flight attendant chose to suggest for this particular scenario. It's impossible to please everybody all the time with this type of situation.