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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAir New Zealand pulls controversial pre-flight safety video amid feminist backlash
Oh well...back to the old boring safety demonstration... Can't seem to have a little fun anymore.
An in-flight safety video that was accused of 'sexualising the female body' has been dropped by Air New Zealand.
The nearly four-minute footage, which features bikini-clad models, has been taken off the air after an online petition was launched calling it sexist.
However, the airline says the removal of the Sports Illustrated 50th anniversary in-flight safety demonstration had nothing to do with public pressure.
The online petition at change.org was signed by more than 7,000 people, campaigned for the video, shot in the Cook Islands, to be removed.
The petitioner said the video, featuring half-naked women carrying out the safety procedures in a suggestive manner, made women uncomfortable, including staff members.
'A safety video is to alert passengers on what to do in an emergency; it should not be an excuse to objectify the sexualised female body,' it read.
The nearly four-minute footage, which features bikini-clad models, has been taken off the air after an online petition was launched calling it sexist.
However, the airline says the removal of the Sports Illustrated 50th anniversary in-flight safety demonstration had nothing to do with public pressure.
The online petition at change.org was signed by more than 7,000 people, campaigned for the video, shot in the Cook Islands, to be removed.
The petitioner said the video, featuring half-naked women carrying out the safety procedures in a suggestive manner, made women uncomfortable, including staff members.
'A safety video is to alert passengers on what to do in an emergency; it should not be an excuse to objectify the sexualised female body,' it read.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2680431/Air-New-Zealand-safety-video-featuring-bikini-clad-models-dropped-thousands-sign-petition-calling-sexist.html
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Air New Zealand pulls controversial pre-flight safety video amid feminist backlash (Original Post)
davidn3600
Jul 2014
OP
They should have included hard body young men in speedos also. Not a good safety vid, they've done
uppityperson
Jul 2014
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wryter2000
(46,081 posts)1. I'll be fun when women get to see Chippendales
Especially their crotches so I can see what kind of game they're bringing.
Let's have a couple of millennia of that as equal time and get back to me.
wryter2000
(46,081 posts)4. Welcome to DU
Out of Time Man
(141 posts)5. Thank you!
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)2. They should have included hard body young men in speedos also. Not a good safety vid, they've done
much better ones, glad they pulled this one.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)6. Didn't see the latest, but they used to have a bodypaint one.
Males and females both in bodypaint, iirc.
rickford66
(5,528 posts)7. The Kiwis are the most friendly people in the world.
I met my wife there and we visit her family as often as we can. She winces when she sees stuff on TV about NZ because it attracts too many people. It'll never be the quaint place it was back in the 60's.