Playground Double Standard

ZimbaZumba · 2012-05-11T19:14:48+00:00

I actually thought it was pretty funny. We need humor in our lives.

RC_5213 · 2012-05-11T20:01:27+00:00

What you should say is "I haven't chosen yet"

I lost it. 10/10

RC_5213 · 2012-05-11T19:32:14+00:00

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emmathie · 2012-05-11T16:09:44+00:00

In the interest of full disclosure, this is a re-post of a /r/funny post I saw a bit ago. I just thought you guys and gals would enjoy it.

klonozopanour · 2012-05-11T18:52:24+00:00

I can't count the times I've spent in a park at night, lying on the metal slide, wondering where all my youth had gone.

But clearly, I'm a pedophile.

Thanks feminism.

Thatonechiku · 2012-05-11T20:13:21+00:00

This isn't a double standard. Unaccompanied adults - men or women - are "frowned upon" at a park designed for children. In some parks, it is illegal for adults to hang out unless they have a child with them. Here is a story about 2 women who were sitting on a bench in a Brooklyn, NY playground and were ticketed by police because unaccompanied adults are not permitted in the park.

emmathie · 2012-05-11T23:26:42+00:00

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2012-05-12T01:50:39+00:00

This was hella funny. And I don't think it'd be all that impossible for the same situation to happen to a woman.

TheresJustNoWay · 2012-05-12T06:26:26+00:00

I watch kids, am not a pedophile, and don't give a fuck.

CrawdaddyJoe · 2012-05-12T20:25:25+00:00

It's only a double standard if a woman watching kids at a playground wouldn't be thought to be creepy if it was known none of those kids were hers. I don't know how people would react to that, so I can't tell if the stigma against it when done by a male is just paranoia, or gendered paranoia.

tiffanydisasterxoxo · 2012-05-13T07:44:46+00:00

I find it creepy when a middle aged person just comes and watches stranger's children play, regardless of gender.

absolutezero1287 · 2012-05-14T02:14:28+00:00

Its true, though. I was once at a store and there were some kids running around. I thought they were cute and I told their mother "cute kids" and beamed a smile at her. She looked at me like I was a rapist. :/ In retrospect I should've added "can I have one"?

burritosandbeer · 2012-05-11T22:09:24+00:00

Ah damn it's a good point. Also one I don't understand. I've seen plenty of people react hostilely to me when I would smile at their baby or young child AFTER it smiled at me. Now that I have my own kid I'd never be upset at someone for smiling at my baby. You can't even friggin help it. My kid's so damned cute he could make hitler smile and coo at him.

Also one time I was on an escalator. In front of me on the escalator was a mom and her little girl. When they got to the top of the escalator the little girl's shoe string was untied and got lodged in the stairs.

I was literally right behind them and saw what happened. I reached down without a thought and yanked the shoe string out before it could become well and truly lodged and maybe have injured the child.

The lady saw my quick movements and at first she moved to snatch her child away but then saw the string and it's position. She went from utter mindless fear to gratitude in seconds. I saw the whole thing play out on her face.

People we're gonna have to learn to give each other the benefit of the doubt if we want to ever have any shot of attaining the goals we have set for ourselves as a species.

Irrel_M · 2012-05-12T06:06:41+00:00

So who's the coward with the deleted comments?

Title	Playground Double Standard
Author	[deleted]
Upvotes	298
Comments	100
Date	May 11, 2012 3:57 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/tib98/playground_double_standard/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/playground-double-standard.1022019 https://theredarchive.com/post/1022019

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