Had seen a post on LWMA, a few days ago, about how men’s contact with children isn’t primarily limited due to “toxic masculinity” (fear of seeming feminine) but due to being perceived as creepy (masculine coded). Found an example of that (archive link in comments)

Organic-Efficiency10 · 2022-10-14T16:33:13+00:00

The archive link is not getting posted. Apparently links cannot be easily posted here. If anyone wants to read the archived post, please DM me. (The message containing it was “shadow deleted” ,just realised that)

Organic-Efficiency10 · 2022-10-14T17:00:39+00:00

Someone sent me reddit care resources because of this post lol (4 hours ago, some time after I had posted this (haven’t posted anything else today ,or for the last few days for that matter). Had been busy after that)

MBV-09-C · 2022-10-15T15:52:33+00:00

Hell, if we're going by that logic, we could say the same thing about women and male minors. I mean, have you seen the amount of news surrounding female teachers committing statutory? It's nuts.

fromasscomesdalife · 2022-10-14T15:11:28+00:00

Death to feminism women are the eternal enemy

Organic-Efficiency10 · 2022-10-14T11:25:19+00:00

Archive link - https://archive.is/2022.10.13-124158/https:// w w w .reddit.com/r/ Two X Chromosomes/comments/y278ml/15f_older_man_approached_me_in_the_park_and_tried/

(Sorry for giving the link like this. Posting links, that contain www, is not allowed here apparently. Just delete the spaces and paste the link in your browser)

I personally think what the OP did was fully justified. She felt afraid and even if the man didn’t have any bad intentions, it’s not like she assaulted him with the pepper spray , she just showed it to him. She doesn’t need to feel bad for this. Now coming to the comments- the fact that such a generalising comment can get so many upvotes and become the top comment says a lot about why men don’t go into caregiving roles. There was a news of a woman pepper praying a man, who was playing with his own child, because she thought he looked creepy. God knows, how many people think similar things without taking such drastic actions.

Algoresball · 2022-11-03T05:26:11+00:00

Not striking up unnecessary conversations with random minors is probably a good habit regarding of gender