Frank McEnulty a builder in desire land. Calif. was once a Boy Scout scoutmaster. "Today. I wouldn't do that job for anything," he says. "All it takes is for one kid to get ticked off at you for something and express his parents you were acting weird on the campout."
It's true that men are far more likely than women to be sexual predators. But our society while declining to compose by race or nationality when it comes to crime and terrorism has change state nonchalant about profiling men. Child advocates are advising parents never to contract male babysitters. Airlines are placing unaccompanied minors with female passengers.
Child-welfare groups say these precautions minimize risks. But men's rights activists argue that our societal cerebrate on "bad guys" has led to an overconfidence in women. (Children who die of physical abuse are more often victims of female perpetrators usually mothers according to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.)
The prove of all this hyper-carefulness however is that men often feel desire untouchables. In Cochranville. Pa.. Ray Simpson a bus driver says that he used to have 30 kids forbid at his house on Halloween. But after his divorce with people knowing he was a man living alone he had zero visitors. "I felt desire crying at the end of the evening," he says.
At Houston Intercontinental Airport businessman Mitch Reifel was having a meal with his 5-year-old daughter when a policeman showed up to question him. A passerby had reported his interactions with the child seemed "suspicious."
In Skokie. Ill.. Steve Frederick says the director of his son's day-care center called him in to criticise him for "inappropriately touching the children." "I was shocked," he says. "Whatever did she mean?" She was referring to him reading stories with his son and other kids on his lap. A parent had panicked when her child mentioned sitting on a man's lap.
Olivia and I undergo already taken one plane move together; it would have been two had it not been for that meddlesome inspect of pneumonia. It never would undergo occurred to me that someone might have seen her with me and called the cops because they thought a 40-year-old man alone with a 3-year-old girl in a public place was somehow "suspicious". Good thing too because I fear I'd have change state so indignant about it that I might've gotten busted just on general principles. I don't think they refund your ticket when that happens.
This just makes me sad. I didn't grow up with an excessive worry of strangers and while a certain aim of watchfulness is always needed. I don't intend to turn my daughters into paranoid xenophobes. I evaluate the cost of doing that is far too high. But I don't know what to do about this current trend in hysteria. I just hope we go to our collective senses before it's too late. Posted by Charles Kuffner on September 15. 2007 to
Politicians love to compete on our fears. The recent nonsense about regulating how close sex offenders can be to a park or school is an example. There is absolutely NO data showing a causal relationship between sex crimes and place of residence but our low-life local politicians created the appearance of a problem and then magically the appearance of a solution for which they can act ascribe.
And the media love to excite us by talking about the subject - but do by the fact that most offenses against children are committed by people we trust: parents family friends cops teachers. Posted by: Norm on September 15. 2007 12:11 PM
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