Air Transat tells Go Public it launched an “in-depth” internal investigation after the mom complained, and claimed none of the crew members “witnessed nor were made aware” of the incident.
The evidence suggests that the airline didn’t speak with the girl or any other passengers — but should have, according to lawyer and law professor Janine Benedet, whose research at the University of British Columbia focuses on sexual violence against women including assaults on public transportation.
Air Transat also refused to provide its official policies and procedures when dealing with reports of in-flight assaults, citing the “sensitivity” of such cases.
“Best practice is to share that with the public and make those available so that everybody knows and everybody’s on the same page,” said Elizabeth Jeglic, a U.S. clinical psychologist and one of the authors of the 2021 study The Nature of In-flight Sexual Assaults.
Two weeks after the incident she emailed four higher-ups at Air Canada, including the manager of corporate security, seeking answers about how it was handled.
Following a study of in-flight sexual misconduct, the U.S. Transportation Department in 2020 made specific recommendations about tracking such incidents and training staff to deal with them.
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First many people who aren’t women are sexually assaulted. Im one of them. Fuck your sexism, no seriously fuck your sexism.
Second the humor here is based on the bad title writing not the sexual assault. If the word “groped” was replaced by “robbed” the source of humor would be the exact same thing, namely that the headline suggests the airline was involved in said crimes.
Finally the world is a hard place already. Do you need to go around policing other’s humor? If so why and who gave you the right to determine what is acceptable?
You don’t need to reply because Im blocking you as you clearly aren’t someone with anything to offer.
Every woman in my immediate family has been harassed and at least two have been assaulted/raped. It’s a very serious problem. I get the wordplay the commenter was going for since it’s the kind of thing I usually would do, but there’s times for that kind of joking and times when not too.
Absolutely, I worked with vulnerable populations at a Cégep. Men have different struggles with sexual assault. In my experience they are believed less and victim are looked down upon more for being survivors of sexual assault. But men are (normally) lucky enough to understand they are being sexually assaulted when it happens for the first time.
My main concern with this comment was the normalization of inappropriate behaviours, in particular harmful language used around sexual assault. Women are absolutely targeted more and younger for these behaviours. My own daughter was on the receiving end of inappropriate sexual language as early as 4 months pregnant.
The fact that a person, a survivor of sexual assault themselves no less, was completely à l’aise avec this type of language highlights that this has been far too normalized.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Air Transat tells Go Public it launched an “in-depth” internal investigation after the mom complained, and claimed none of the crew members “witnessed nor were made aware” of the incident.
The evidence suggests that the airline didn’t speak with the girl or any other passengers — but should have, according to lawyer and law professor Janine Benedet, whose research at the University of British Columbia focuses on sexual violence against women including assaults on public transportation.
Air Transat also refused to provide its official policies and procedures when dealing with reports of in-flight assaults, citing the “sensitivity” of such cases.
“Best practice is to share that with the public and make those available so that everybody knows and everybody’s on the same page,” said Elizabeth Jeglic, a U.S. clinical psychologist and one of the authors of the 2021 study The Nature of In-flight Sexual Assaults.
Two weeks after the incident she emailed four higher-ups at Air Canada, including the manager of corporate security, seeking answers about how it was handled.
Following a study of in-flight sexual misconduct, the U.S. Transportation Department in 2020 made specific recommendations about tracking such incidents and training staff to deal with them.
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Why would the teens want the airlines to help grope them?
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Unfortunately I already have been assaulted
Lol ur so funny
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Hahaha! Sexual assault is funny!
Ask the women in your life if they remember the first time they were sexually harassed or assaulted. It’s younger than your think.
This behaviour against women is still normalized and needs to be stopped.
First many people who aren’t women are sexually assaulted. Im one of them. Fuck your sexism, no seriously fuck your sexism.
Second the humor here is based on the bad title writing not the sexual assault. If the word “groped” was replaced by “robbed” the source of humor would be the exact same thing, namely that the headline suggests the airline was involved in said crimes.
Finally the world is a hard place already. Do you need to go around policing other’s humor? If so why and who gave you the right to determine what is acceptable?
You don’t need to reply because Im blocking you as you clearly aren’t someone with anything to offer.
In conclusion fuck your sexism.
I’m sorry you were sexually assaulted, but how are they sexist?
The presumption that only women can be the victims of assault.
I think you may be reading into things too much. The article is specifically about a young teenaged girl and that’s what they commented on.
Their reply to my joke was instructing me to talk to the women in my life about assault when not only women are victims.
Regardless joke police can go to a dark corner never to return.
Every woman in my immediate family has been harassed and at least two have been assaulted/raped. It’s a very serious problem. I get the wordplay the commenter was going for since it’s the kind of thing I usually would do, but there’s times for that kind of joking and times when not too.
All vulnerable people are SA’d; ask the men in your life how often they were assaulted when they were not in a position to protect themselves
Absolutely, I worked with vulnerable populations at a Cégep. Men have different struggles with sexual assault. In my experience they are believed less and victim are looked down upon more for being survivors of sexual assault. But men are (normally) lucky enough to understand they are being sexually assaulted when it happens for the first time.
My main concern with this comment was the normalization of inappropriate behaviours, in particular harmful language used around sexual assault. Women are absolutely targeted more and younger for these behaviours. My own daughter was on the receiving end of inappropriate sexual language as early as 4 months pregnant.
The fact that a person, a survivor of sexual assault themselves no less, was completely à l’aise avec this type of language highlights that this has been far too normalized.