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posted by Scott on Wednesday March 28, @05:53PM
from the inequality/double-standards dept.
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frank h submitted this link to Kathleen Parker's latest editorial in Town Hall. In it, she discusses the policy of British Airways to seat men away from children who are flying alone, and an incident at a Target store where a single dad was hassled for helping his 8 year-old daughter try on clothes in a dressing room. Parker puts it well when she says, "In our hypervigilant world of zero tolerance, pedophiliac paranoia and incest sensitivity, everyone's a pervert until proven innocent. If you've had the extremely bad judgment to be born a male, you're automatically suspicious."
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I don't have a good idea of when certain behaviors are appropriate for young children, but I've asked around a bit and found the consensus to be that an 8 year old child should be able to put on clothes for him/herself. Regardless, the double standard is still there that men are all potential perverts, molesters or voyeurs. These biases would simply not exist if it was a mother, no matter how old the child was.
I just thought I'd comment on that.
Scott
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