To believe that a sizeable chunk of MN holds these opinions?

[MrManager]

The situation described here.

It seems a lot of people, mainly women ime, will assume 'paedophile' very quickly.

Sorry seeker. You are wise :)

honestly ginhag, i think you would have been really, really shocked at what went on here a couple of weeks ago. it was a full moon but absolutely normal, pleasant, dare i say even liberal posters were acting like the paedofinder general. it was a case of hysteria, probably, but underlined to me that many people have these feelings but just not the opportunity to express them.

I suppose if one of you girls got stopped late at night on the way home from a hen's party by police who thought you were a prostitute by the way you dressed, you wouldn't object to his sterotyping of women?

I mean scantily dressed woman in a dark street late at night, man in children's underwear section, reasonable mistake right?

can someone please explain what all the Saturday afternoon stuff was about? I do miost of my shopping for DCs clothes in my lunch breaks - what does that make me?

Aitch, saw your post on way out...and yes I did miss that thread. Sounds very saddening, and depressing...am actually glad I missed it! I still think the OP is shit stirring though, and seeker is starting to scare me, so I am gonna bugger orf now.

hehehe ginhag you are totally right, he is a complete shit-stirrer. i will join you.

(and just in time by the looks of it)

Pub, Aitch? It's nearly lunchtime, fancy a shandy? :)

mine's a guinness.

Anyone else coming?

ginhag, you do seem to like posting in the thread now you've left it.

I'll have a big glass of white please

MrM can you exaplin the Saturday afternoon reference?

Hush, she's derailing it.

StealthPolarBear I think it meant that if he was doing the shopping on a Saturday, i.e. a big shopping day, the guard would have been less inclined to assume he was a paedophile. Doesn't make much sense, though.

Yes, in many situations people will think men are possible/likely paedophiles. When I first started working in nurseries in the early 90s I was given lots of advice on how to behave so I was safe when I when I was accused of abuse of some kind. Don't let children sit on my lap etc. Notice I said WHEN and not IF I got accused of something because my tutors, trainers and managers thought due to peoples opinions it was only a matter of time. Happily, no big problems yet.
The first issue there was with me was when a man pulled his child out of my nursery because of me. I've noticed that those reactions are more or less evenly split between men and women.

MrM, just see it as me standing at the door chivvying people to hurry up and get their coats, so we can go for a nice Sunday pint :)

more mra shite won't even bother removing coat.

You obviously don't read MN very much then OP. IME lazy assumptions of paedophilia are jumped on here

I thought he was saying that he thought the security guard wouldn't have questioned a father shopping for children's clothes on a Saturday, because he feels that it's more acceptable for men to publicly parent on the weekends.

But otherwise, during standard working hours, he has a perception that others think men should be at work, not looking after children, or doing the shopping for children.

Oh I see, thanks. Yes, I get that, weekend parents only

YABU

Unless the man who wrote that blog can read minds he can't possibly know what the security guard was thinking. For all we know the security guard was suspecting him to be a potential shoplifter and took the prevention is better than cure route, would make less work for him if he could prevent shoplifting taking place rather than having to arrest one and call the police.

Secondly I fail to see what the security guard (a man) thinking has to do with mners opinions.

Bill Hicks you'll find a lot of "scantily dressed woman in a dark street late at night" practically every weekend (and probably some week nights too). Why would anyone think they were prostitutes? Where's the proof that this security guard stereotyped the man as a paedophile?

All shop staff are told that acknowleging a customer cuts down on shoplifting. They then know they aren't invisible.

I sussed MR Manager was probably a troll the other night. COuple of others too. Now we have BillHicks and someone bumping a thread about naked children on beaches.

I this some kind of invasion agaqin?

Why am I a troll DuellingFanjo?