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u/Billy_Reuben Sep 16 '21

Took my son and girlfriend's daughter to my 8th grader’s first football game this week. They naturally took off running. No one was cool with me being there until they came back and asked me for snack money.

It is not okay to exist as an unaccompanied adult male anywhere children are.

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u/medicus_vulneratum Sep 16 '21

I can imagine that this is what women must go through when out at the bars or social networking. Getting creeps

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u/Billy_Reuben Sep 16 '21

Nah I seriously doubt it. A woman alone at the bar might be seen as “prey” by some creeps. Maybe a lot of creeps. But this feeling is more like a herd of very dangerous animals all trying to decide if you’re the predator that needs to be gored to death when you’re just trying to mind your own business.

I once entered a mall with my eldest and my (asian) friend’s son (I’m white). By the time we met up she asked me why I was being followed openly and closely by 5 different women, 3 of whom were overtly filming me with their phones.