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.

[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."

[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.