Edwynn
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As am I. The last girl I dated had a 10 year old daughter and I was the one who picked her up from school every day. For the first week I had to deal with teachers calling her mother to make sure it was okay for me to pick her up. It was probably another week or two before all the teachers began to remember me. But I didn't let that bother me. In fact, I was more pleased that they actually did check up on me just because I wanted to know they were watching out for her.
Fact is, men have been the primary suspect for every kind of crime since the dawn of civilization. If you haven't accepted that by now then you're way behind the curve and possibly being a little naive. My advice? Man up and deal with it or gracefully remove yourself from the situation.
Men are responsible for most crimes therefore I should accept being profiled and discriminated against? Bullshit! Sure, checking up on an unknown guy picking up a girl at a school is one thing. When a man can't enjoy a lunch at a restaurant with his little niece or is made to feel uncomfortable by society if he wants to sit and relax near a playground, then something is wrong with society. If you think that is acceptable then you are the one who needs to man up.
Sorry for being a bit late to the party here (as I usually am, and never in the "fashionble" sense), but things are as they are now because of 'heightened awareness' to a nearly schizophrenic level across society. Permanent amber alert, SWAT teams for towns of pop. 5,000, etc. You stated in your initial post that all this scrutiny re you and the young family member occurred in the last four years or so.
That's not male discrimination at all. It is rather the incessant inducement to all of society to freak out at almost anything that was considered normal 15-40 years ago.
If the "professionals," i.e. the police, can't tell the difference between beer and water, and seemingly no one, professionals, landlords, 'neighbors,' or otherwise, can tell the difference between tomato plants and pot plants, then I don't know what element of 'good sense' we can expect from any public corner anymore.
Being able to tell the difference between an uncle or a grandaddy vs. a perv is far down the list. You'll have to wait your turn, there.
I have more of an issue with granny being felt-up by cretin hirelings (whatever their gender, that is just perv to the max, sorry, (and stripping 3 yr. old kids, too)) by the private contractor TSA at the airports than I do with your plight, come to think of it.
Just as I overlook the putative 'concern' of people who bring up anecdotal evidence of 'male pervs,' who then seem to have no issue at all with the above, come to think of it.
Society has completely lost perspective, safe to say.
< Message edited by Edwynn -- 8/17/2013 9:29:53 PM >
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