I think this is a situation where the votes this story is getting ARE the data.
I imagine many men voting this story up have noticed this trend in their own lives.
It's not hard data, but it shows a trend.
Heck just yesterday I rode an elevator up with 2 parents and their maybe 3 year old kid. The kid had been out in the rain and I made a comment directly to the child about the rain. The parents looked pissed just because I was talking to their kid.
I was just trying to make awkward elevator conversation a little less awkward.
I don't disagree with the notion that people overreact to men around kids, but I think the article itself is just a lazy appeal to emotion, and not very well argued.
I imagine many men voting this story up have noticed this trend in their own lives.
It's not hard data, but it shows a trend.
Heck just yesterday I rode an elevator up with 2 parents and their maybe 3 year old kid. The kid had been out in the rain and I made a comment directly to the child about the rain. The parents looked pissed just because I was talking to their kid.
I was just trying to make awkward elevator conversation a little less awkward.