gaynotqueer:

thisisfemaleprivilege:

Female privilege is the ability to play with children without being seen as a pedophile.

If men stopped raping children this wouldn’t be an issue.

I really don’t think this is even slightly true though, that men are automatically seen this way. Maybe it’s true for any random single man without children with him who’s hanging out at a playground, but people always give beaming smiles to my brothers and brother-in-law when they’re out with their kids, or to my dad when he’s out with the grandkids.

Men who spend a lot of time with their kids (and that will usually include their kids’ friends) are applauded beyond reason for doing so because our society still assumes that men don’t want to be active parents.

What some parents think about random men hanging around play areas (when their child isn’t there) is not indicative of what society as a whole thinks about men being around children.

(via futureabortiondoctor)