WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

[razorjak]

British Airways all but blatantly states that all males are child molesters.

Not too familiar with the Daily Mail. Is this the UK version of Weekly World News? Or has an airline really become THAT stupid?

Comments

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Well, it's usually full of self-righteous crap and it's fairly right-wing.

...but it's also a little more reliable that WWN. They may indeed be that stupid. :-/

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

it's actually got real news, unlike the WWN. but it's hideously low-brow and is a tabloid. so yeah, GB airlines (the people operating the flight for BA) probably do really have a policy to avoid sitting kids next to men, but it's unlikely to be an all out ban, and the stewardess was probably just beign overzealous.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

I have a full-on hate for the human race right now, and it's just getting worse after reading this.

Why do 99% of the people out there suck so fucking much?

[serpent-sky.livejournal.com]

Hell, won't someone think of the women? Maybe I wouldn't want to sit next to a child I didn't know [which is all children], either!

Really, airlines, trains -- any public transport -- should have child-free options, anyway, to spare the sane of us from having to deal with other people's mistakes. There should also be child-free restaurants, movies after 9pm, you name it, I will tell you "no kids allowed" would improve it.

Then again, my dream is a child-free town, so you see where i am coming from.

[apestyle.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that apparently some child devestated you in some horrific way. I'll be sure that you'll never come across my "mistakes".

[serpent-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I appreciate that, as I hate the filthy, loud things with a passion. No one particularly devestated me, I just don't like them, as is my right as a fully-developed adult.

You get huge credit for not wanting to force me to be around them.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

As long as I've known her, she's had this hatred of children. I've never understood it myself. But everyone is wired differently.

Now me? After so many years working at Toys R Us, It's usually the PARENTS I can't stand. Especially the way they act on Black Friday.

[goffchick.livejournal.com]

It usually doesn't have anything to do with "some child devestating" people- it has to do with the proliferation of horribly misbehaving children, who are just encouraged to be public nuisances by their parents. Unfortunately, they seem to far outnumber the well behaved ones- whether they do in fact or not they make themselves quite obviously known with the crying, screaming, running into strangers, etc.

[apestyle.livejournal.com]

Here's my contention, go ahead and take the world "child" and replace it with any other marginalized group.

"I hate blacks and believe they are mistakes."

Do you see how this statement is an emotional landmine?

This person has every right to feel and say something like this, but it's liable to make a lot of people around her feel like punching her in the mouth.

[serpent-sky.livejournal.com]

Come try it, I dare you.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

At least they're not banning men from flights. Didya See this post from Castle Argghhh? The City of Belmont has banned ALL smoking (outside, in your car, in the street, on the sidewalk) save from one's home. Now I don't smoke and I never have, but the logic of the city council members leaves something to be desired for rationale.

"We have a tremendous opportunity here. We need to pass as stringent a law as we can, I would like to make it illegal,” said Councilman Dave Warden. “What if every city did this, image [sic] how many lives would be saved? If we can do one little thing here at this level it will matter.”

Oh, and did you hear San Francisco closed down their JROTC program. They're going from 14 instructors to 9 instructors because they're loosing the federal funding from their decision/act. "We need to teach a curriculum of peace."

[montieth.livejournal.com]

So can taxpayers demand that San Francisco be excluded from ANY Federal aid given their stance on 2nd Amendment rights? Or do they get to pick and choose and everyone else doesn't? After all, I'm sure that the SF school board would be perfectly willing to support a Junior CMP program if they didn't have to pay a cent for it right? Somehow I suspect that the response would be that they don't want to teach children to be killers or some such.

I do however believe that there's been a court case showing that the states and lesser dominations can loose funding due to failure to provide access by the Military recruitment programs.

Somehow, I'm still suspicious that the excuse hinging on "don't ask don't tell" is very convenient and not the core reason. Otherwise, it could be argued that they'd have executed such a policy shift ~10 years ago when it was the focus of a big out-roar under the Clinton Administration.

Also, JROTC operates without school support in other areas. Why can't they do that in San Francisco?

SF as an urban school district can use all the help it can get?

[kest]

I believe there's been a fair amount of talk on my friends list (and in my lj!) about whether drugs, legal or illegal are a human right or not. Mostly the consensus seems to be not.

A lot of places don't have JROTC. Hell, lots of places don't have ROTC. I don't see this as a huge deal.

[eciklb.livejournal.com]

That offends the heck out of me. Yeah, it assumes all men are potential predators, but it also means that there's a *much* higher chance that I'll be stuck next to somebody else's child. That's not so bad if the kid can take care of him/herself, but I *hate* *hate* *hate* *hate* *hate* the fact that I am periodically expected to care for somebody else's child. I'm not good at it, I don't like it, and I resent the hell out of the fact that people look at me, see I'm female, and assume that a) I'm a nurturing type, and b) my labor is available free to anyone who might feel like presuming.

[gruamach.livejournal.com]

Well, what do you expect from a country that legally declares that it's better to be robbed, raped and killed than to "risk the horrorible sin of taking someone's life" by defending yourself.


But at the time, I can't wait for BA to get their asses sued off...probably when a similar incident happens at a US airport, thus putting it all under US law.

[kest]

apparently I missed when airplane molestation became such a big problem.