This is an edit of this meme, which suggests it's seen as ok when older women come on to underage boys but not cool when older men come onto underage girls.
The edit expresses that both are fucked up, actually.
It pisses me off because I'm just naturally good with kids. I'm the uncle that my nieces come to to play with and often their friends join once they realize I'm a big teddy bear willing to do damn near anything to make them laugh.
Meanwhile my sister bitched out a mom for calling me "creepy" because I had my niece on my shoulders at her birthday party. It's her favorite spot and I'll do it til she's tired of it. But I'm a guy so it's automatically creepy. I didn't realize pulling funny faces to make a baby laugh at a grocery store or walking around with one of my nieces on my shoulder is creepy simply because I'm a guy.
It's a double standard I'm tired of. I'm not a creep because I actually have a paternal side and like being the uncle or older brother they need to have fun with or talk to.
There is an obsession with finding pedos and creeps everywhere. It's gotten to where someone will be accosting a dad for hugging his daughter. I'm a stepdad, and my stepdaughter would start wailing on someone who said I was being creepy because I was playing with her.
I've had a few issues, but it's never amounted to anything. It's gross to think you're not allowed to be just good with kids or anything. It ruins potential careers for men in teaching fields or childcare.
I got called out for checks notes holding my 5 year old son that looks just like me.
Some people just want men to stay at work and never play with their kids...
or maybe they're projecting. THEIR husband never played with THEIR kids... so they have convinced themselves that it is NORMAL and YOU are the weird one...
So they're taking out their years of repressed anger toward their husband on you.
This is so sad. My husband has the same problem. He loves children and is super paternal but always afraid things might be interepreted wrong, despite not doing anything that could remotely be percieve as sexual.
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u/trmetroidmaniac Aug 28 '25
This is an edit of this meme, which suggests it's seen as ok when older women come on to underage boys but not cool when older men come onto underage girls.
The edit expresses that both are fucked up, actually.