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Something is missing from lotharbot's story. Single men pretty regularly go grocery shopping without reproach.
by spacehome 11y ago
Something is missing from lotharbot's story. Single men pretty regularly go grocery shopping without reproach.
- edraferi 11y agoYes, but solitary men are mistrusted around children in public Example: your at the grocery store when a young child wanders around the corner and starts pulling items off the shelf onto the floor right in front of you. A woman could stop the child, ask "where are your parents?" and carry the child to fjnd the parents. A man better back away and ignore the child lest somebody call the cops.
- lotharbot 11y agoI have a scruffy beard... ? It may also have to do with specific circumstances -- like regional culture. In Seattle, everyone was always cold regardless. In patriarchal northern Utah (in the small town where friends of mine run safe-houses for people fleeing polygamy) I got different dirty looks for being alone than for having my child (wives are supposed to be watching the kids in that culture.) In my part of Denver, being white makes me stand out. In any case, I have noticed different treatment when I'm with my son and when I'm alone.