Sometimes, being a male, gives me a little bit of an idea of what it must feel like to be of middle-eastern appearance. I thought it was meant to take Hannah from school to Burdett St this afternoon. I showed up there 15 minutes early, because I'd had to take the car to the NRMA assessor beforehand. It seemed very quiet and while I waited I started moving all the junk out of the back seat into the boot so there would be room for Hannah. Mum rung me about the car and while I was chatting to her a man came up and stood beside me. I felt a bit nervous so I stopped talking to mum and started talking to him. He interrogated me for a minute or so and told me that it was a student-free day and that it was weird that I had showed up there. He asked me if I was related to Hannah, which I get asked a lot. In that context saying you're a "friend" sounds so molestery, but that's what I always say. Since most abuse is done by members of the family, it is kind of a funny question. But I suppose it's much harder for people to stop abuse from a family member. They can't tell creepy members of the family to bugger off, but they can say that to creepy people who claim to be "friends".
I can understand why they are paranoid about men around schools. And assuming a man is a child molester is probably a more logical predjudice that assuming a Muslim is a terrorist. I'd reckon the proportion of Muslims who are terrorists would be less 0.01%. The proportion of males who molest children must be a whole bunch higher than that.
but did you find hannah?
jo / 9:49am / 18 July 2007
Yep. I found her in Westfield trying to buy a Wiggles CD.
Ryan / 10:19am / 18 July 2007
There was once a guy who was angry because a celebrity woman (forgot her name) said that if you’re in a heterosexual relationship, and you’re a woman, you’ve got the upper hand advantage. He gathered some buddies to pout and aggressively bash on the woman (in his own pseudo-show or whatever) and they retorted with defiance that there’s more to men than just their penises. This made me smile fondly, cause it’s pleasing to know that the stereotypes of men being worthless unless it’s for sex/reproduction purposes really puts a damper on the spirit. (Mine, in particular)
Anyway, taking more interest in his ‘show’ I subscribe to watch his other videos and in another he retells the story of a teacher being FORCED into pornography because of a number of unfortunate events that occurs in her life, and after sharing the sad tale his friend (the same one who was outraged about the above) finally cracks the obnoxious question “Hey, in all seriousness… if you’d see her porno, knowing her background story, would you still jerk off?” And they ALL broke into a bunch of typical sub-human monkey laughter all concurring that “YES! HELL YES,” THEY’RE MEN, aren’t they? “hahahaha you gotta unda stand we MEN, yo!” As if humanity was SPARSE of pornography. Bah! You can’t have it both ways. You can’t claim to be human and be sub-human at the same time. sigh It gets a bit tiresome.
So here is where I am puzzled, why do men blatantly boast about acting like a monkey, but then, when it is expected of them (during more unpleasant times) they get all angry and feel ‘stereotyped.’ A bit inconsistent. Heh…
(Wow, I realized I’ve just written ‘a book’ on your blog. I apologize. A bit of a vent, perhaps.) :P
Otherworld Apple / 11:26am / 4 April 2011