worried about DD/DS being molested on plane? plane has more chance of crashing!

[ManfredMann]

www.theotherglassceiling.com/2014/05/sexism-paternalism-flying-high-what-are.html

give the blokes a break !

[TheDoctrineOfSnatch]

But it's only because it seems like a possibility that people want to be able to act on it. Actually the same DD might be in a taxi or on a train or bus or in the airport waiting area or at a cafe next to a man they don't know. They are probably more likely to encounter a "lone" man in those situations (prob more than half men on planes travelling with partners or business colleagues or friends)

I mean, there's clearly little logic in making someone swap with his wife on grounds that he might be about to molest a strange UM whilst his wife sleeps next to him, is there?

There is no risk that can be reduced without there being a corresponding cost. I can reduce my risk of dying in a plane related incident to almost zero by never flying, at the cost of not seeing much of the world or of far away relatives.The cost of reducing this risk is increased normalisation of separating men from their social duties towards unknown children - as in the cases upthread of lost children.

[TheDoctrineOfSnatch]

Sorry, I put that badly. I should have used probability not risk.

I mean, if people think a probability can be controlled, controlling it takes on a disproportionate importance and any downside of controlling it is ignored.

Out of 100000 men and 100000 women, there will be more child abusers amongst the men. But out of 100000 men and 100000 women there will be many more men than women who started a pub fight, say.

So it's true to say that if a UM sits next to a man, she has a greater probability of sitting next to someone who has started a pub fight than if the UM sits next to a woman.

But the risk of the person sitting next to the UM starting a fight on a plane cannot be quantified by their "group" probability of having previously started a fight.

Not to mention that if you grouped the probabilities I. Other ways (under 60s and over 60s, for example) you could come up with a different seating plan that would also not be "risk related"

I may or may not be making myself clearer here...

[Delphiniumsblue]

Sadly while men are viewed with such suspicion we do not get them working in early years education and places where they are desperately needed, with children . ( or not many - luckily there are some)