India’s largest budget carrier, IndiGo, is the first airline to trial a feature that lets female passengers book seats next to other women to avoid sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with a man in a move designed to make flying more comfortable for female passengers, according to a CNBC report.
The airline’s booking process is fairly standard except for the seat map which highlights seats occupied by women with the color pink. This information is not visible to male passengers, according to the airline, CNBC reported. IndiGo did not immediately respond to CBS MoneyWatch’s request for comment on the new feature.
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I don’t think this discussion is worth having. I hope you are never used as a means to an end.
I can’t see them saying this at all. The only person treating people as not being people here is the way you treat men. If you discriminate against a group of people as is clearly happening here towards men, then of course that group is going to turn against you. You don’t remove sexual assault by pretending men are the only perpetrators and never a victim. You don’t remove sexism by adding discrimination against men.
Until you see that by going for short-term solutions, we may end up causing way, way more harm and have more women sexually assaulted, I don’t think this conversation is worth having, either.
I sincerely hope we will be able to direct our attention at treating the source of a problem instead of applying patches. And I absolutely hope you or anyone here won’t ever be abused by others.
But for now, farewell.
Get ready, he’s got another 5 paragraphs of petulance brewing.
Yah. Lol. I was trying to avoid all the sidelong tangential points but the guy just does not see that using women as pawns to prevent male violence is a bad thing.
You don’t get it at all. Creating this kind of system for only one gender is discrimination. It’s exactly the same kind of thing you see white supremacists doing because they only want to be sat next to other white people. It’s this kind of behavior that drives men to sexism in the first place. How you don’t see this after it’s been explained to you is shocking. It’s also hilarious that people only talk about men assaulting women and never about women assaulting women, women assaulting men, or men assaulting men. Not only does it not reflect the reality of sexual violence, it’s also heteronormative and sexist. Pretending that only men have the power to be abusive, and that women are always the innocent part is sexist thinking.