[mkjessup]

This is monumentally stupid. Pedophiles come in both genders, and apparently British Airways never got that memo.

[paudio]

The feminists should sue them as well, as this is a form of gender discrimination. Women are seen as incapable of committing pedophile action.

[Rippin]

profiling

[deaconjim]

Easy solution - Introduce yourself to the kid and his parents. Now you’re not a stranger, problem solved.

[saganite]

Personally, when I’m going to be in coach for 8 to 10 hours the last thing I want is to be sitting next to someone’s little angel. Still, this policy exceeds even the bounds of political correctness if the parents are there. 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.

[calex59]

They are profiling. Which is ok if you profile for all eventualities, terrorism for example, but to profile males as sex offenders and to simply let muzzies board as they like while searching people who don’t fit the profile is simply discriminatory.

[FrankR]

If the British men don't have enough spine to raise immortal hell about this profiling discrimination, do they at least have an alternate choice of airline?

Like the other poster said, the last person I'd want to sit beside is someone's little brat (don't flame, I raised four) when I'm traveling.

So far in the world, the white male is the dumping ground for every racial and gender oriented group on the planet...so this is not that surprising.

I say establish a "kids section" in the back of the plane and hire "day care" workers to sit back there and guard the little angels from flying perverts. When you buy your tickets they could ask, "...kids, or NO kids?" like they used to do for smoking.

[MarkL]

I'm of mixed feelings about this... While I don't like the idea that adult men are being treated as potential sexual predators, it DOES protect the men from being sued by a crazy parent with a child that exaggerates or just outright lies (like the McMartin daycare center case). It also segregates small children from adults who either want to sleep or need to work on the flight. A few years ago I wound up giving a little girl my CD player for the flight to get her to shut up and leave me alone, so that she could listen to some music and I could get some work done on a 2 1/2 hour flight. Of course, her mother was sitting with her.

Mark

[almost done by half]

In general I think men are becoming very careful about being around other peoples unescorted kids for fear of being accused of being a pedophile. You may not be guilty but it will cost you a fortune to fight a malicious charge to clear your name. (This is a really sad comment on our times.)

[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.

[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.

[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.