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Firefighter Wrongly Implied to be Child Sex Offender by Virgin Australia Flight Attendant Enforcing Sexist Airline Policies

August 10th, 2012 No comments

In his blog post My Virgin experience as a Paedophile!, Sydney firefighter John McGirr details how Virgin Australia treated him as a pedophile because he was assigned a seat next to two unaccompanied boys around age 10. When an airline stewardess observed he was sitting next to the kids, she demanded that he give up the seat. She then asked a woman to take his seat, telling her that he was not allowed to sit next to minors. In other words, she implicitly defamed him as a child sex offender simply because he is male.

Statistics say that child sex offenders are more likely to be family members as so much of child sexual abuse occurs within families. So these two boys were probably statistically safer sitting next to a stranger who is a male than next to a family member who is male. And in a day and age where female school teachers sexually abuse male students, why are women considered any safer to be sitting next to kids? That’s doubly so when you consider the 2008 incident of a drunk women sexually harassing a 14 year old boy and offering him drugs on a Southwest Airlines flight in the US.

Since this story showed up on the Sydney Morning Herald’s website on August 10, there have been more than 800 comments and over 44,000 votes on Virgin’s policy against men. 87% of the votes cast say that Virgin’s policy is sexist and suggests all men are potential pedophiles.

Let Virgin Australia know that you will not be flying with them so long as they maintain a policy of sexism and defamation against men. Here are email addresses for their executive officers:

CEO John Borghetti: [email protected]

CFO Sankar Narayan: [email protected]

Group Executive Sales Judith Compton: [email protected]

COO Sean Donohue: [email protected]

Group Executive of Brand and Customer Experience Mark Hassell: [email protected]

Group Executive Corporate Communications Danielle Keighery: [email protected]

Group Executive Alliances, Network & Yield Merren McArthur: [email protected]

Group Executive Government Relations Jane McKeon: [email protected]

Group Executive People Richard Tanner: [email protected]

General Counsel Adam Thatcher: [email protected]

You can also file a human rights complaint against Virgin Australia by emailing the Australian government at [email protected] .

Further Reading

Virgin defends policy of separating men from children

Sydney fireman John McGirr accuses Virgin of discrimination

Virgin accused of treating men ‘like paedophiles’

Virgin Australia’s Facebook page discussing its sexist policies against men

Virgin review after ‘pedophile’ complaint

Woman algebra teacher had ‘passionate affair with 16-year-old student’ during summer vacation

Southwest Airlines Sued Over Child Sexual Harassment

British Airways compensates man for sexist child seating policy