The driver did not know the girl. He was doing a favor for her mother.
Talk about unconcerned parenting. Why would a parent of a young child let a man pick her up at school, when it is possible that man doesnt even know the daughter?
So this parents, doesn’t care that their daughter gets into cars with strangers. This man agrees to pick up a child he doesnt even know.
I have a 2 year old, and I am extremely selective who watches her when I need someone to watch her. I cannot imagine that changing.
So weird!!!
On rereading the article I see I was wrong about that. The driver had some familiarity (obviously not much) with the girl he should have picked up. It was the girl he mistakenly picked up whom he did not know.
I can easily imagine myself in the same situation as the driver, trying to do a favor for one of my female friends with a young daughter. The odds that I would pick up a same-named wrong girl are ridiculously low, but what if it happened? Would bystanders still assume AFTER I returned the girl to the school that I had tried to kidnap her?
That is apparently what happened here. That is insane. A woman driver who made the same mistake would never have been treated this way. If I am ever asked to pick up someone else's child at school, I will refuse. I will not take the risk of running into rabid idiots who assume that because I am an unfamiliar male that I am probably evil.
In a coffee shop today, I listened to a mother boast that she had trained her three year old daughter not to like men. She loudly repeated this several times. She was not kidding. Rank misandry. The people she was talking with did not object. Apparently they agreed with her.
2012 America. Not the place it used to be. Not even close.