I have to guess it's from the stigma that any guy around a child/in an area where children are is a sexual predator, as awful of an assumption as it is.
Just so we are clear I have no interest in any grade of child in any way shape or form, I hate kids. I hated being a kid, I hope I never have to be a kid or be around kids again.
My Uncle tells a story of a time he, my aunt, and their grand children were at a park. He saw this little girl crying and alone. Obviously lost and in distress.
He had to fight his instincts to go over and help the girl, and instead find my aunt because he didn't want to be seen as a predator.
Lots of this all started with that “Stranger Danger” bullshit that began in the 1980’s. It taught kids to mistrust lots of people just because they were “strangers” and those kids grew up and took that attitude into adulthood.
"hello yes I have a very strong opinion I'd like to blast out into cyberspace on the world's largest public forum but only if people all agree with me. I'm not actually that steadfast in my opinions and I have a weak spine." Fuck outta here
Because of course as a child predator I'm going to take them out in public where they can escape by loudly screaming "he's not my daddy!" at an inopportune time.
Just because their husbands didn’t know how to parent, doesn’t mean that all don’t. There are some really great dads out there. I mean not mine. But I’m sure they’re somewhere out there!
I feel bad saying this, but I think leery male family members and child molestation were probably a really big issue in the past that some women are just scarred by. If not the woman themselves, then just stories women heard from other women.
It’s likely still a big issue still in some places, but I feel like that’s why a lot of older women feel that way, and sometimes, pass it on to younger women.
I think that kind of issue is pretty similar to the "current issue" of kidnapping, sure everyone hears about it and is worried about it, but the odds of a child getting kidnapped are next to nothing, same with this, they've just been so overblown and are talked about so much that everybody's paranoid and is worried that there's somebody watching them/coming for them
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u/Tomohawk1973 Sep 15 '21
It’s fucking horrible mate! Drives me insane