The airline said that the girl's grandmother had given the two women permission to "educate her".

An incident which saw two women lock a crying toddler in an aeroplane toilet has sparked an online debate in China on how to manage children in public spaces.

The incident went viral on the Chinese internet after one of the two women, Gou Tingting, posted a video of herself carrying the girl inside the cubicle.

In her post, she presented herself as trying to help others on board, but was swiftly met with backlash.

  • phdepressedEnglish
    54·
    3 months ago

    100% of my family besides my wife and dog are far enough away that flying is the only practical way to visit them.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      72·
      3 months ago

      I understand, and me too. What I’m saying is just that when I was growing up, this would have been incomprehensible. At the time I was born, people where I grew up were not automatically entitled to travel outside the country, and the country was like 600 km across the longer way.

      • phdepressedEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        This wasn’t so much entitlement as necessity. My aunts moved to get married. My dad and uncles moved for work. Meeting up was always infrequent because it required flying. My grandpa(dad’s side) wasn’t able to make it to my dads wedding and my mom did not get to see her dad on his deathbed.

        Just how things were back then.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I think I’m misunderstood, by entitlement I don’t mean feeling entitled, I mean legal entitlement. She had no right to travel, my family is from a former Warsaw Pact state. The border guard would not let you pass.

          We all face our hardships, I’m sorry that your family had to face that as well. It must have been heartwrenching.