Avoiding Kids: How Men Cope With Being Cast as Predators

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118903209653018615.html

...The Boy Scouts of America now has elaborate rules to prevent both abuse and false accusations. There are 1.2 million Scout leaders, and the organization kicks out about 175 of them a year over abuse allegations or for violating policies.

These policies can be intricate. For instance, four adult leaders are needed for each outing. If a sick child must go home, two adults drive him and two stay with the others, so no adult is ever alone with a Scout. "It's protection for the adults, as well as the children," says a Scouts spokesman.

The result of all this hyper-carefulness, however, is that men often feel like untouchables. In Cochranville, Pa., Ray Simpson, a bus driver, says that he used to have 30 kids stop at his house on Halloween. But after his divorce, with people knowing he was a man living alone, he had zero visitors. "I felt like 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 reprimand 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.....

Are We Teaching Our Kids To Be Fearful of Men?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118782905698506010.html

...When children get lost in a mall, they're supposed to find a "low-risk adult" to help them. Guidelines issued by police departments and child-safety groups often encourage them to look for "a pregnant woman," "a mother pushing a stroller" or "a grandmother."

The implied message: Men, even dads pushing strollers, are "high-risk."

Are we teaching children that men are out to hurt them? The answer, on many fronts, is yes. Child advocate John Walsh advises parents to never hire a male babysitter. Airlines are placing unaccompanied minors with female passengers rather than male passengers. Soccer leagues are telling male coaches not to touch players.

Child-welfare groups say these are necessary precautions, given that most predators are male. But fathers' rights activists and educators now argue that an inflated predator panic is damaging men's relationships with kids. Some men are opting not to get involved with children at all, which partly explains why many youth groups can't find male leaders, and why just 9% of elementary-school teachers are male, down from 18% in 1981....

Tere are many ugly, grim-faced women in Italy who are, for all intents and purposes, anti-sexual.

In this respect, it is a feminist paradise.

Effectively you are saying "all women are whores".

Journalism is clearly the most whorish profession around.

"If a person thinks that women are selling their very souls when they sell sex, they are really saying that a woman’s sense of self is no deeper than her vaginal canal."

-- Alpha Female

You should visit her blog. It's called.... "Vaginal Discharge".

Enough with the vaginas, ladies.

Empowered women use their vaginas to get ahead. No worries!

See above article on "prostitution", which we all know is an attempt by the Patriarchy to devalue women's sexuality.

Vagina!

So what? You don't want to date. N = 1.

Talk to your therapist!

@Juliebird: No, we'd be perfectly happy if there were loose women all around.

Keep opining on men in the Feminist Echo Chamber, Juliebird. It's the only thing you know.

I don't believe for a minute that you know anything else.

You're an exception. NOW and other feminist groups have lobbied time and again against joint custody legislation and Family Court reform. You are not at all representative of feminists.

And despite women working, the vast majority in the US are not the primary source of income in their households. Regardless, the family courts will treat their income differently than that of their husband should they divorce.

You're a bigoted hardened asshole. Maybe you could get a job writing for Broadsheet!

No worries, we have enough craven pseudomales on this site.

Women in control of their own sexuality: used to be condemned by hairy, mustachioed men, now criticized by hairy, mustachioed feminists. Yawn. Get your minds out of their vaginas and let them (and us) enjoy themselves

Feminism sucks. Keep telling yourselves fairy tales.

One would assume this issue applies to obese men as well, if your conclusion is valid. Therefore, it is not a "women's issue".

Given the cardiotoxicity of many chemotherapeutics and the differential partitioning of drugs in muscle mass vs. adipose tissue, I'm not surprised doctors are being cautious when administering chemotherapeutic drugs to obese patients.

Once she gets better, she can look for work at Pink Taco.

Thanks for the feminist = control freak estrogen-addled loser, TCF.

Rachid Dati can do whatever she wants, and your fellow French control freak feminists can say whatever they want.

Why are feminists so obsessed about controlling other people's lives and choices?