Comments on: Ban on men sitting next to children

By: ford

ford — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:32:29 +0000

its utter bullshit alright

By: dad4justice

dad4justice — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:29:33 +0000

They speak Maori on feminist Air New Zealand but a man
can’t sit next to children . What a MAD country run by
sexist criminals !!!

By: Captain MRA

Captain MRA — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:24:12 +0000

British Airways have the same sexist policy. It makes me want to throw up that I am judged to be a paedophile just because of my gender. Captain MRA, UK Men’s rights activist for 11 years.

By: John Kimble

John Kimble — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:50:49 +0000

ok another update – just received an email from the governemtn stating that the “claim was ‘withdrawn as being settled’ on 22 January 2008. ”

No idea what this means, though sounds more promising than the 1st email I got, Does anyone else have any information please?

By: John Kimble

John Kimble — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:21:22 +0000

Hi I’m not from NZ but decided to do some digging on the Qantas / Air NZ story as we have the same problem in the uk with British Airways. (unfortunately it never got the same coverage as Qantas / AIR NZ, though it does make it into certain mational newspapers every now and again). Anyway there is a pretty big update for the Air new Zealand case:

I emailed Human Rights Review Tribunal to ask if there was any verdict on the complaint by Dr Wayne Mapp against Qantas and Air New Zealand. I received a reply from Maria Galvin to say “No decision was given by the Human Rights Review Tribunals as the claim was withdrawn by Dr Mapp on 22/1/08″.

I’ve no idea why Dr Mapp has done this and there is no mention of this news in the media (perhaps this story would be worthy of a new article so everyone can see it? – feel free to cut and paste)

Mr Mapp’s email address is:

wayne.mapp@parliament.govt.nz

I shall be asking him why he has done this and suggest others do the same.

By: Hadi Akbari

Hadi Akbari — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:20:34 +0000

Hi guys, my wife had a sexual abuse allegation made against her back in 1995 by the woman who has had her son all this time, its just a shame the police were never involved like my wife wanted as this allegation has ruied her life, now her son is 13yrs he deserves to know why his poor innocent mother hasnt been allowed to see him all these years, it is unbelievable how easy it is to make an allegation against someone like that and get away with it, there might be so many sex offenders out there but that doesnt mean to say we are all like that, you would have to be insane to touch young children, i know of a lot of fathers who love their children more than anything in the world and i am one of them

By: zubbazubba

zubbazubba — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:50:24 +0000

Has nobody ever taken AirNZ to court about this ?

By: Cindy Kiro « the Nicholas O’Kane blog

Cindy Kiro « the Nicholas O’Kane blog — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:07:46 +0000

[...] the topic of flights, Cindy Kiro supports a ban on men sitting next to unaccompanied children on flights to stop child abuse. Presumably, she [...]

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:53:29 +0000

The hurtful, vile policy of Air New Zealand and Qantas banning men from sitting next to unaccompanied children must be exposed and condemned as the hideous, dehumanizing sexism that it is. While such a policy may “fly” in Australia and New Zealand (and, I earnestly hope that it will not continue to do so), it is repugnant to egalitarian principles and to any notion of gender equity. Surely, if such a policy were implemented in the United States, it would violate federal and state anti-discrimination laws. Rosa Parks, who recently passed away, became an American hero precisely because she refused to submit to a policy dictating where she should sit on a bus because of her race. Air New Zealand and Qantas (as well as Children’s Commissioner Dr. Cindy Kiro, who reportedly supports that policy) believe, however, that gender should dictate where passengers are allowed to sit on planes, treating male passengers like pariahs. The civilized world must reject and denounce such sexism as emphatically as it has rejected and denounced racism. Unless and until Air New Zealand and Qantas abandon that hurtful, egregiously sexist policy — with an apology, they do not deserve the patronage of men.

By: Moose

Moose — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:28:05 +0000

This incident provides a small window of a great opportunity to expose this sort of crap we as Men have to put up with in society. I implore everyone to jump at the chance to make what we can of it.

It’s a shame about the short notice for the protest ! But I will do everything I can to be there.