Female celebrity Julia Morris demands women-only section on airplanes in Australia: ‘Stand up to creeps'
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Comedian Julia Morris has called on Australia's major airlines to introduce women-only sections, following a bad experience with a 'creep' onboard a recent flight.
The I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! host raised the idea in a post to Instagram last week, claiming women were fed up with being asked to climb over men.
'Calling all airlines,' she wrote, tagging Qantas, Virgin Australia and Jetstar, 'PLEASE consider a women-only section on your planes.'
'We don't feel safe with men telling us to crawl over them on flights, while they ignore women's personal space.'
She added: 'Give us the back section. Or at least a few rows of female only seats.'
'Stand up to creeps on flights. Women are OVER IT.'
In a comment, Morris explained the idea occurred to her following a run-in with a 'creep' on board a recent flight.
'My teenagers and I crossed paths with a creep on a flight recently,' she wrote.
Julia Morris (pictured) has called on Australia's major airlines to consider women-only seating, claiming women are being made to feel uncomfortable by male passengers
'It was beyond stressful and it occurred to me that I’m never that close in proximity to men I don’t know, to the point I can feel their skin on mine.
'Not all men, as I said. But way too many men.'
The comedian added the women-only section would be optional: 'If you are not into it, then don't choose it.'
The post was inundated with hundreds comments, mostly positive and from women sharing their own experiences being forced to clamber over male passengers.
'I was on a Virgin flight back in June and felt sick so had to get up quickly from my window seat,' one woman wrote.
'The guy on the aisle refused to get out of his seat… that moment still haunts me.'
Others suggested taking it even further, by having women-only bathrooms and cracking down on men hogging armrests and legroom.
Not all were convinced, however, including several men who waded into the fight to share gripes of their own.
Morris called on Australia's major carriers to consider the changes (stock)
'From a man’s POV we don’t feel comfortable crawling over women and also have seen our fair share of women’s sanitary products used on display in airplane toilets,' one man wrote.
'Here’s a thought maybe the onus is on people being decent human beings.'
Morris directed her comments towards Australia's three biggest carriers, none of which has announced plans to introduce gender-specific rows.
But similar proposals have been implemented internationally, including by India's biggest airline, IndiGo, which allows women to book seats next to other women as opposed to men.
Flag carrier Air India, meanwhile, has provided women-only rows since 2017, which it refers to as 'gender-sensitive' seating.
