The thriving sexism against men is alive and thriving as we all know. I've read articles posted on this sub many times but, I'll be honest, it's never been thrust in my face as it was today and made an actual difference to my outlook.

I volunteered to be a 'chaperone' on my 5 year old son's school trip (field trip) to a local attraction. There were myself, an older guy who was relative of a teacher, another dad whose sole responsibility was to care for his son who is autistic, and there were then 4 of the mothers chaperoning. All of whom were nice, no issues.

My son loves his teacher, who again is really nice and a great teacher.

We went around the attraction and we needed to let the kids go to the toilet before we moved on to the next thing. Two of the mums moved down the stairs towards the toilets and I thought I'd go down to volunteer to help the boys (they can all go to the toilet themselves and it was more to safeguard as they are public toilets).

I was promptly told that "due to the risk assessment" that male volunteers were not allowed to assist with taking any of the children to the toilets.

I had to pretend I was alright with it (it's not the time or place to have a debate!) but I was appalled at the glaring sexism and presumption that all males are potential paedophiles and sexual predators.

To their credit, one of the teaching assistants did roll her eyes when I said I couldn't help due to the "risk assessment" and called it stupid.

Yet another example of the prejudice against men.