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To all the fathers, how do yo feel about this?

  • 24-05-2013 11:20PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭


    So I came across the following on Imgur.

    The number of celebrities being arrested is only the latest pedo scare. Newspapers thrive on the pedo stories, Brasseye looks more like an authentic news programme now than when it was made. Men being driven away from positions that put them in contact with children is nothing new, but is it really getting to the stage where a parent feels they can't be left alone with their child in public?

    I don't have children, so I can't really express much of an opinion on this.
    My question for fathers: are you nervous about or do you fear other people's reactions towards you when seen alone with your own children?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭andy125


    OP comes across very pedo like....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    kowloon wrote: »
    My question for fathers: are you nervous about or do you fear other people's reactions towards you when seen alone with your own children?

    Nope.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭Dicky Pride


    WTF? This is ridiculous. I have never seen or heard of anything like this ever happening. If a father is playing with his son in the park, that's exactly what he's doing.

    I'm thinking this is another made up Facebook story designed to get as many likes and shares as possible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    I've no plans of breeding, myself, but I think the way or society is going when it comes to men being seen as predators is crazy. Soon kids won't have any male role models because men won't want that heat and suspicion on them. Could you blame them for not wanting to be put in that uncomfortable situation either?

    I remember reading at Christmas how some women were afraid of letting their kids sit on santy's knee. Fecking ridiculous how that sort of prejudice is thrown around like it's nothing and is justified these days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Don't believe the story.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    andy125 wrote: »
    OP comes across very pedo like....

    Poster comes across as a thanks whore.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    kowloon wrote: »
    So I came across the following on Imgur.

    The number of celebrities being arrested is only the latest pedo scare. Newspapers thrive on the pedo stories, Brasseye looks more like an authentic news programme now than when it was made. Men being driven away from positions that put them in contact with children is nothing new, but is it really getting to the stage where a parent feels they can't be left alone with their child in public?

    I don't have children, so I can't really express much of an opinion on this.
    My question for fathers: are you nervous about or do you fear other people's reactions towards you when seen alone with your own children?

    Am i living in the 1600's ? why in the name of common sense would a father be nervous of other people or their thoughts while he is with his own child ?.

    If citizens of a modern country look strangely at a father with his child then the people looking and thinking strange s*it need to see a psychiatrist immediately.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    I don't think things are that extreme by any means. The only odd thing I have ever come across in a father son relationship was at a kids birthday party I attended. The father of one boy(the boy was eight at the time) kept kissing him on the lips and rubbing his back. It was not smooching but a strange type of affection as it was his only child. Other than that I do not look at fathers as pedos.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    There's almost an assumption that a man can't be trusted with a child. Like that airline with the policy that a child flying alone can't be sat beside a male adult.
    It'd gotten sort of hysterical.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭Fiery mutant


    To be honest, if someone called me a paedo in front of my children, I would batter the living sh1t out of them.

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    WTF? This is ridiculous. I have never seen or heard of anything like this ever happening. If a father is playing with his son in the park, that's exactly what he's doing.

    I'm thinking this is another made up Facebook story designed to get as many likes and shares as possible.
    Don't believe the story.

    Well, it's on imgur, so upvoting is something to take into account. I do take it with a fairly large grain of salt, hence the curiosity over whether this is a real phenomenon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    To be honest, if someone called me a paedo in front of my children, I would batter the living sh1t out of them.
    I'm not sure that getting locked up for assault is the best way to demonstrate your dedication to your children.
    Oh wait, what am I saying, you're making things up. Carry on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    That Imgur thing is a crock of sh1t imo.

    Problem is if a man sees a distressed kid wandering about lost for example, he may well think twice about doing the right thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,623 ✭✭✭googled eyes


    I think thats some fake facebook crap.

    Look around Ireland today. There's a hell of alot of unemployed fathers who look after their kids.

    Why would anyone be afraid to go to the park with their own kids??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    kowloon wrote: »
    Well, it's on imgur, so upvoting is something to take into account. I do take it with a fairly large grain of salt, hence the curiosity over whether this is a real phenomenon.

    I did a mental experiment and put myself in the Father's shoes and rather than breaking down crying a few weeks later the child's Mother was crying as she collected me from jail for assaulting the prick who called me a peado.

    I really think I'd go ****ing nuts. Really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    1ZRed wrote: »
    I remember reading at Christmas how some women were afraid of letting their kids sit on santy's knee.

    True story: I once sat on the knee of a man dressed as Santa (many years ago) who was (many years later) revealed to be a paedophile.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭andy125


    I think thats some fake facebook crap.

    Look around Ireland today. There's a hell of alot of unemployed fathers who look after their kids.

    Why would anyone be afraid to go to the park with their own kids??

    Ofcourse it is, what father would give a flying **** what some scumbag said to them and thus would let that effect his relationship with his son, cmon!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Unfortunately there are whacko people out there or brain-dead neighbours that think twisted thoughts and assume a man with his child looks suspicious and therefore would call the gardai.

    The society we live in now is so brainwashed and frightened of the news stories that are put out on a daily basis their little pea-brain neurons can't gather together to form a common sense logic...as in...well that is his kid and the father loves them to bits and will so hug them out of love for their child.

    This society in Ireland is twisted and it needs fixing, but how can you fix a society of idiot thinkers that have the brain capacity of a snail ?.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    That Imgur thing is a crock of sh1t imo.

    Problem is if a man sees a distressed kid wandering about lost for example, he may well think twice about doing the right thing.

    And that is a very valid point.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    The real issue is why the jackass would refuse to go to the park with his son because a few strangers made jokes.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭ppshay


    In Watford, UK all parents are banned from two city playgrounds:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6453268/Council-bans-parents-from-play-areas.html

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2009/oct/28/parents-playground-children

    I also remember reading (but can't find a link now) of another UK city banning all unaccompanied males from their town park.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    WTF? This is ridiculous. I have never seen or heard of anything like this ever happening. If a father is playing with his son in the park, that's exactly what he's doing.

    I'm thinking this is another made up Facebook story designed to get as many likes and shares as possible.

    You mean you didn't share it? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    They say that one in twenty of us is living next door to a paedophile.

    Not me though. I live next door to two stunning seven-year-olds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    I cannot believe that people even entertain this sort Of ****e!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭titchy


    lyk if u cryd evry time xxxoooxx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Fart


    8 year olds, dude.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Gee_G wrote: »
    I cannot believe that people even entertain this sort Of ****e!!

    Not everyone is a Dad, that's why I posed the question. I don't use facebook and only look at imgur for pictures that amuse me, I have no exposure to the issue, if it actually exists. Report my post if it pisses you off so much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    I'm thinking this is another made up Facebook story designed to get as many likes and shares as possible.
    Are there many new male primary school teachers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Joe10000


    peckerhead wrote: »
    They say that one in twenty of us is living next door to a paedophile.

    Not me though. I live next door to two stunning seven-year-olds.

    I laughed but something tells me you're in for a ban !

    I think the premise on which the story is based is nonsense, i have a baby son and it would never cross my mind to be self conscious. If it was not my child though now thats a different story, i would probably would feel slightly paranoid about the situation and be careful I was being PC with everything especially after today.....

    I was in the petrol station earlier and there was a kid in front of me buying sweets and when they were added up he was 30c short, the kid asked the girl to take one of the items back and I said don't worry about it, I would pay the 30c. In the end the cash girl said don't worry about it and the kid skipped off.

    It was only afterwards that I thought that these days you just can't do that type of thing, I was stupid and should not have said anything.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    kowloon wrote: »
    Not everyone is a Dad, that's why I posed the question. I don't use facebook and only look at imgur for pictures that amuse me, I have no exposure to the issue, if it actually exists. Report my post if it pisses you off so much.

    I didn't actually mean your post!(I would have quoted it if I did) Probably should have written a bit more :) I just mean the fact that fathers would even be afraid that people are thinking that is crazy! No parent should have to think like that!


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