Businessman sues BA 'for treating men like perverts'

Daily Mail ^ | 1/16/10 | Sophie Borland

[Tribune7]

Why does this guy want to sit next to kids?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

This is the result of that mental pathology called liberalism.

[almost done by half]

“at one time, I would have a morning jog, it is up a hill and down past a school ground, just as mothers were escorting the children to school....after a time, I decided that wasn’t a good route....that after raising two girls...”

Exactly, when I go to malls and I walk in to a bathroom I hate to see unescorted kids in there. Kids are so scared to talk to male strangers you hope you never have to assist one when they are lost or hurt etc. If you say anything nice to a kid in a store they ignore you or they take off I’m sure it is a scary time to raise kids but this isn’t the world I grew up in.

[Haiku Guy]

I wonder how they would handle it if a person of color were asked to move because he might be a pedophile? It’s always interesting when two protected classes clash.

An example of
A "When Sacred Cows Collide"...
You get Hamburger...

[Wuli]

An equally rousing thread a few days ago om the same topic, reported the case of an Americsn soldier who is or was serving in Afghanistan who is up on military charges for “child pornography”, because he had pictures - pictures his mother sent him - which included pictures of his pre-kindergarten sister during a family swim outing, and in some she’s without a bottom part to her bathing suit.

My nephew’s youngest boy ran around naked from the waist down, all the time, no matter who was there, until way past five or six, and the neighbors never once called and said the family next door was entertaining child pornographers, during their bar-b-que.

The problem with the over-zealous phobic fears that every male is a pedophile, not only unfairly stigmatizes the innocent man, but, I imagine the events have the potential for prematurely sexualizing the child’s senses.

[adorno]

...a policy that bans male passengers from sitting next to children they don't know - even if the child's parents are on the same flight.

Airplane manufacturers are going to be demanded to build humongous airplanes in order to keep men and children at least 1,000 feet apart.

BTW, when a pedophile gets on a plane, how far from him/her are the children on that plane kept? Will there be designated areas for pedophile seating?

[sionnsar]

I avoid British Airways if at all possible. An unpleasant airline.

[Vanders9]

An expensive one, certainly.

[CholeraJoe]

I can’t begin to tell how many times I have been seated next to an unaccompanied minor on a flight. The cabin attendant introduced the child to me and asked if the child needed anything to just ring the bell. Guess I don’t look like a Pedobear, huh?

[wideminded]

I have sometimes wondered if airlines that control seat assignments try to separate male and female travelers to avoid sexual harassment complaints/problems/lawsuits.