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I know a few women personally who have blatantly told me that they are suspicious of any man they see near their kid's park. They haven't ever mentioned confron

• Auracle 4y ago
  I was hired for a photoshoot of a teacher at an elementary school. As I was setting up a tripod, a light with a big softbox and the like outside the front of the school I had a resident busybody come up to me and "just make sure" none of the kids outside in the playground would be in the shot. Of course, I could have legally done so as they were outside in a public place...and the earlier part of the shoot was in the teacher's classroom with her students. I had another shoot where I was covering someone's engagement that was near a playground. I had my wife with just to diffuse anybody worrying about a man with a long lens near a playground but clearly not photographing any children - and sure enough, she had to talk to a lady about it. Another time I was going to photograph a high school senior at a playground the next day, so I scoped out my old elementary and middle school playgrounds (no camera equipment on me!). I made it all of 10 feet onto the elementary school playground before I had a woman essentially accuse me of being a creep. There were plenty of moms there. It didn't even seem to occur to her that I could have been a father, or just walking across the space to get to the baseball field or whatever. For the record I'm a decent looking guy and I don't think I put out creep vibes in the least.