Would you hire a male babysitter?

[georgarina]

Why/why not?

Sadly for some of us, life has taught us that you really can not.

@MintyMoocow I would live quite happily with being accused of stereotyping. I also only ask family members or friends to look after my children. They would also be women.

The only man I know who babysat for children when he was younger ended up in the same prison as Rolf Harris for 14 years!! There are stereotypes for a reason.

Nope. I was molested by a local teenage boy my family had known his whole life.

I'm so sorry @MattDamon

No way. To the PP who said sex is irrelevant, the statistics on sexual abusers say otherwise. They are overwhelmingly men.

Nope.

Fr0thandBubble that was me. Of course they're overwhelmingly men, but it's still not a common thing overall, male or female

I say much the same to my DS, now 20s. On one occasion almost exactly that, when he was moaning about how unfair it was that there was a recruitment policy designed to get more women into his male dominated workplace, which he believed disadvantaged him.
He knows I can love him and the other men in our lives, but still recognise their privilege. I've taught him, and he gets it.