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If nobody cares, then what do you have to shield your children from?
It's CLOTHING.
nobody cares about the person or their motivations for dressing inappropriately. people do care that a pervert is hanging around in public near their children and near people who are trying to enjoy themselves.
nobody cares about the person or their motivations for dressing inappropriately. people do care that a pervert is hanging around in public near their children and near people who are trying to enjoy themselves.
So wearing clothes "outside the norm" automatically makes people "perverts". Huh. Never knew.
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Originally Posted by LaoTzuMindFu
It is NOT just clothing. Imagine you have kids ages 3, 5, and 7. All boys and playing in the park. How would you react if some MAN dressed in women's clothing comes along and sits right next to where your kids are playing and watching them? Even my gay friends are creeped out by people like this.
> sits next to kids
> watches them
That would creep me out no matter what the person was wearing - unless that person had a kid playing in the park as well.
A random guy on a stroll through the park wearing a mid-drift sweater? Meh. I would barely bat an eyelash to.
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Originally Posted by JustJulia
Hello, police? I'd like to report a disturbing individual. He's wearing a sweater, sir, a woman's sweater. My children are frightened. Yes, we're in the park. No, it's not a particularly lewd sweater, sir ... it's kind of skimpy. Yes. Bare midriff, yes. It's definitely a woman's sweater. Kind of a Flashdance kind of thing. My wife owns one just like it. My children are confused, sir, and I need someone to come out right away and address this sweater situation.
The part I find absolutely hilarious is that the OP never stated he even went to a park (or anything to do with kids). First usage of the word "park" was Lao's post.
Last edited by gallowsCalibrator; 07-08-2011 at 01:56 PM..
maybe im just more open minded than some but it seems to me that if kids saw men wearing womens clothes and vice versa all the time they would just say "oh well no big deal everybody does it". The kids arent freaked out that they saw Fred in a dress and Linda in a tux....YOU are.
To be fair, though, I do wonder about a man wearing leggings. Those things are skin-tight. How does a man wear those without sporting a moose knuckle? I was in ballet for years and know all too well what a man in tights looks like.
So wearing clothes "outside the norm" automatically makes people "perverts". Huh. Never knew.
oh look who showed up, mr im sooooo open minded and accepting of everybody. it depends on how outside of the norm it is. when the person goes too far according to my judgement, they are a pervert and i dont want my child to think that its ok. everything everyone does isnt acceptable to me even if its legal.
i dont want my child "freaked out" as im not freaked out. but my child will know that the person has problems.
oh look who showed up, mr im sooooo open minded and accepting of everybody. it depends on how outside of the norm it is. when the person goes too far according to my judgement, they are a pervert and i dont want my child to think that its ok. everything everyone does isnt acceptable to me even if its legal.
i dont want my child "freaked out" as im not freaked out. but my child will know that the person has problems.
You know.
Pervert typically refers to someone who's doing something that sexually offends someone.
If the OP isn't doing it for sex reasons, how exactly can they be a pervert?
Sorry, but cavemen need to leave their caves sometime. If women can wear jeans and men's t-shirts with no issue, why can't men wear women's clothing?
oh look who showed up, mr im sooooo open minded and accepting of everybody.
Correction: Mrs. I'm so open-minded and accepting of everybody
Because quite honestly, I am open-minded and accepting of everybody... well, everybody except people who go out of their way to hurt others. Criminals and all that jazz.
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it depends on how outside of the norm it is. when the person goes too far according to my judgement, they are a pervert and i dont want my child to think that its ok
So wearing clothing outside normal gender boundaries (cross-dressing) means that a person is perverted. Whelp. Looks like I'm a pervert, too. I'm a crossplayer
Now, if my child pointed out somebody wearing "outlandish" attire (outside of a con, of course) I would merely tell her that "I guess he (or she) wanted to wear that today."
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everything everyone does isnt acceptable to me even if its legal.
So?
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i dont want my child "freaked out" as im not freaked out. but my child will know that the person has problems.
Whereas, I teach my daughter that everybody is an individual and, as long as nobody is getting hurt, there's nothing wrong with being outside the norm.
Then again, I say this as I'm prepping costumes and props for Otakon.
Pervert typically refers to someone who's doing something that sexually offends someone.
If the OP isn't doing it for sex reasons, how exactly can they be a pervert?
Sorry, but cavemen need to leave their caves sometime. If women can wear jeans and men's t-shirts with no issue, why can't men wear women's clothing?
it doesnt have to be sexual and i dont particularly care to consider the reason why the person is acting like a pervert. im the judge and the jury of what i consider decent.
the freemale below is ok in my book, not the freemale that started this thread.
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Last edited by JustJulia; 07-08-2011 at 03:06 PM..
So everybody is talking about protecting the kids. What about those adults that dont have kids? Or want/like kids? How do you all feel? Reading some of the posts in diff threads one would think that every adult in the world is pushing a stroller and spending their days at the playground.
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