Grown man at cinema on his own

Christ - i go to the cinema myself op - stop being so bladdy mean.

Well, you can if you're female. But if you're a male you are not allowed to leave the house without a wife, child or pet in tow to prove you are an upstanding member of society and not a weirdo. Because what possible reason would a man have for wanting to go out ALONE apart from being a predator?!

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Same here.

I used to go to the cinema on my own when I was a student. Now that I'm a crone, I do the same.

I've seen MNers call posters "cool girls" and "pick me's" for saying that it's wrong to lie to your partner about being on the pill. Pretty sure that takes the cake!

What's the problem? I always go to the cinema on my own.
OK, so it's a kids film, but he's allowed to watch that. This is a non issue.

YABU! I think it’s sweet. Maybe he has special needs/ autism and likes cartoony films (my son does), maybe he doesn’t and just wanted to watch the film, so what? I could happily sit and watch a child’s film on my own. He isn’t harming anyone, stop being so judgmental and mean.

It's odd you noticing him and then posting about it.

Why shouldn't an adult go to the movies alone? As you say yourself it's aimed at a younger audience, but refers to a cartoon from 20 years ago. So he could be an old school fan. But maybe none of his mates are and so he went by himself.

If it was a group of ten 40 yo men would that seem more or less weird?

Anyway just watch the screen. Imagine if he posted on a forum saying he though you or your family looked out of place or peculiar while enjoying a film?!

Shocking, I know. 😂 I think a local byelaw’s being drawn up - nobody to walk round here without a spouse or a pet. I’ll have to get a lead for the cat.

YABU

There's loads of kids films I enjoy watching.... I have DC so can use them as an excuse to go and watch.... I wouldn't be brave enough to go on my own because of judgy people like you 😅

Someone has to try and be sane

Like not trying to make out a man is a weirdo for watching a film alone and not calling women names because they don't agree with you

I saw a man who I assumed to be at the cinema alone when I went with the kids at Easter to watch Minecraft. I freely admit I did wonder why but it didn't bother me enough to ask others about it. As it turned out he was actually with some kids but sat further away, I'm assuming a grandparent tasked with supervising from afar.

I think it's fine to wonder about everything in life and everybody can be judgemental but as long as it's not hurting anybody then let them be.

What absolute, irrelevant bollocks.

You shouldn't be on your phone in the cinema.

Maybe log a call with 101, just in case. I mean, according to people on this very site, there is a paedophile on literally every street. In fact, that's a conservative estimate. Make that five on every street. Better be overvigiliant than too trusting.
(biggest /s in the universe. Just in case that wasn't clear!)

Yep. I'm really pleased to see the vast majority of posts supporting him.

For all the benefits of being make, this is a huge downside. A lone middle aged man, whether going for a walk in the woods, or going to the cinema on his own, has to worry about seeming 'odd' (or worse) whereas I can have my daily evening walk in the woods and go to the cinema to watch a family film on my own, without having to worry what people might think.

What in the world has this got to do with trans issues for or against? This man was not identifying as a woman.

The only point of relevance that I can see, is that people are probably more likely to think they must really be of the opposite gender, if anything that they do that isn't absolutely conventional for their sex role is promptly 'called out' as 'weird'.

People are allowed to go to the cinema on their own. 🙄

Oh no, you've just reminded me of Alvin and The Chipmunks. I had erased that from my memory.

I've just watched the trailer for Lilo & Stitch and it's definitely not something I"d choose to go and see.

I loved Cars though and made my DS and DH go and watch it me.

I would have probably wondered why he was there but as long as he wasn't doing anything weird I wouldn't think more about it.

I go out for a pint on my own occasionally. I suppose I'm really just casing the joints for potential rape victims or old folk I can mug.

Go! Don't let judgy people on social media stop you doing this. It's a them problem.

I’m a 31 y/o woman and watched inside out 2 on my own in a cinema full of kids. Cried my eyes out. I didn’t give a F about the kids in the cinema. Lilo and stitch was a huge movie when we were kids, maybe he just needed a pick me up? Unless he was sat rubbing his thighs staring at your kids give people minding their own business a break.

Over the course of my pretty long life I have indeed been aware of blokes having a fiddle at absolutely ordinary mainstream cinemas. The type of film or time of day has been totally irrelevant. I do live in a big city and the cinemas in question are city centre ones, rather than the out of town retail park multiplexes. I do agree though, you would've thought it was old hat with all the porn available and actually a dirty rain coat cliche/joke but I'm not making it up I promise.

ive wanted to go to the cinema on my own plenty of times and not ended up going because of being worried about people acting like this…

No ones forcing you to be here. Just go find a better site if you hate this one 👋

Middle aged?! It only came out in 2002, so if he was a kid when it came out he'd be in his 30s...