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To think it’s about time all women were Ms or Mrs following this plane error
AtlasPine · 09/04/2021 07:29
www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/tui-plane-serious-incident-every-miss-on-board-child-weight-birmingham-majorca
The confusion caused here could have had dire consequences.
Isn’t it about time we dropped the title ‘Miss’ to differentiate between adult women and girls?
Am I being unreasonable?
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tendofether · 09/04/2021 07:43
I'd be interested to know if this child/adult weight classification is common. I can think of a few scenarios where it wouldn't be representative even if they had children and adults classified correctly, e.g. school trip of 15 year olds, all children but using the child's weight for each one would underestimate the weight.
RainingBatsAndFrogs · 09/04/2021 07:46
I can’t stomach the way women’s titles are differentiated by marital status and have been Ms since I was 13 as a result.
But I think that airlines should have better (less sexist) and more ‘internationally aligned’ systems rather than their systems dictating to women what they call themselves.
I am more boggled that the adult weight allowance is 69Kg. Not in the average check in queue I have stood in!
RichardMarxisinnocent · 09/04/2021 07:46
@Nitgel
Exactly. No IT system should be basing this, or indeed anything else on someone's title. Surely if one weight is allocated to adults and one to children it should base it on their date of birth. Also did nobody do any testing of this new system before it was implemented? If they did surely they would have discovered this? Or did they find it and decide it was OK?
Lazierdays · 09/04/2021 07:48
I wish we could just have one title for women and one for men. I hate how women are always defined in relation to their Dad (Miss Smith) their husband (Mrs Brown) or their divorce (Ms Brown or Ms Smith).
Seems archaic when the men are just Mr Jones their whole life.
MiaMc · 09/04/2021 07:48
Didn’t they say it happened because the system was calibrated in a country where everyone with the title ‘miss’ is allocated a child weight?
So whichever country that was need to update their system?
Seems like it would be more straightforward to ignore titles & just weigh everyone instead.
Brefugee · 09/04/2021 07:52
That's everything to do with the weight entry error and nothing to do with ms/miss. What a crazy system to start with.
nope. It's an automated system that allocates Mr, Mrs and Ms with 69kg and Miss as 35kg.
I wonder what about boys who are routinely Mr though?
But OP is right it is high time women were Ms. (I'm all for leaving off Mrs too)
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