AIBU to be conflicted

[Gothgirl78]

... About this story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-37105880

I think the woman on the plane was very unreasonable bit I'm not sure "shaming her" on social media is a good idea.

I hope there's no other thread, I can't find one .

I hope the little girl is okay now

I saw this on FB too.

She was wrong to tell the woman to shut her child up repeatedly.

Even if she did have additional needs herself. When the mother explained, she could have explained too.

However the public shaming thing is wrong. It's like when you get photos up of people who have harmed children or hurt animals. You don't know 100% that they did actually do it and it encourages vigilante action

This sort of thing terrifies me. I'm not on social media, for very good reason, but I can imagine my ex doing this with a photo of me to try and track me down, or if someone else did it because I said something they didn't like it could also put me in serious danger.

If the story is true the woman is an arse, but does she deserve to have her privacy invaded and her picture splashed about everywhere, no.

As others have said - only one side told.

I think it's awful. The woman sounds like she was behaving like an arse. The mother, based on her own testimony, was also behaving like an arse. I don't feel like I could have a civilised and rational conversation with a person who makes themselves feel better by publicly shaming strangers so I can see how the woman was in a bit of a bind.

I had a minor freakout on a plane once when I was about 19/20. The person in front of me (boy with SN - about 12ish year old) wouldn't put his seat upright and his mother wouldn't make him. We were going through turbulence and the seatbelt sign came on so I had to put my seat fully upright and there was zero room and I suddenly got overwhelmingly claustrophobic and jumped up into the aisle. The flight attendant was yelling at me to sit down and I was yelling that there was no space and she came up and tried to manhandle me into my seat and told the boy he needed to put his seat up and he was saying he didn't have to. I was a young woman on a flight to tenerife with a bunch of mates. I probably looked like a dick for not letting the child with SN take all of my space but I was just frightened. I've never been claustrophobic before and it came as a huge surprise.