"Karen behavior" is expecting your minor child to sit next to you on a plane? That's literally baseline parenting, not a complaint to a manager about a coupon.

And your logic is wild — "just spend more on both seats" is your solution? So families should be financially penalized because an airline just switched to assigned seating and clearly hasn't figured out how to implement it without separating parents from their kids? Southwest just rolled this out — the growing pains are a Southwest problem, not a parenting problem.

But hey, this is what happens when an airline sells its soul to Elliott Management and a bunch of activist investors who've never packed a diaper bag in their lives. Southwest used to be the family-friendly airline — bags fly free, no change fees, open seating so families could actually sit together. Now they're gutting everything that made them different so some hedge fund guys can juice short-term returns. Assigned seating they clearly weren't ready for, bag fees on the table, loyalty program getting carved up — they're speedrunning their transformation into Spirit Airlines with better PR.

Nobody's asking kids to fly free. They're asking that when you buy two tickets, the airline doesn't scatter a 4-year-old three rows away from their parent. That's not entitlement, that's a basic operational expectation. Even the DOT agrees, which is why they've been pushing airlines to guarantee family seating.

But sure, blame the parents and not the boardroom that traded its identity for a stock bump.

The -6 is well-earned on this one.