I've seen some male passengers moved from seats because some female passengers didn't want to sit next to them. I can't recall those making the news. There have been news stories about things like male passengers being made to change seats because an airline didn't want unaccompanied minors, females more so, to be seated next to men. Now, that is something that I could see being considered a disservice to women. That can also be considered a disservice to men, on the basis of what it assumes.
I've also seen UA flight attendants deny males some access to lavatories in ways that they didn't deny females. So sometimes the "disservice" when traveling is against men.
Originally Posted by
Baze
I would change the title to 2 men did not want to sit next to a woman for whatever reasons so GA moved her. Lets take all the rest of it out of the discussion as it is not relevant to what happened. All that is relevant is 2 men did not want a woman sitting next to them and UA moved her instead of making the men either move/change flights/whatever. That is all that is relevant.
It's relevant because the stories circulating about it have those kind of things as part of their headline about the story.
If it was just that "two passengers didn't want to sit next to another passenger", would the story still be all that it has become so quickly? I doubt it.