Warning:
re PUBLIC LIBRARIES & SEXUAL OFFENDERS
I must warn you that SOME public libraries apparently assume that some of their patrons are sexual offenders. In a few situations as I was traveling and visited a public library I definitely got the feeling that they thought that I was a possible "predator" (wrongly so, of course! I am not a sexual offender ...never committed any such crime nor have the proclivity for such...needless to say never been convicted of such) ...and in one case, oddly enough, closer to home, I used the stairs to exit the newport beach main library...which means you walk thru the children's section as you leave..and the lady librarian said cryptically to me that I should not walk thru the children's section again. It's a shortcut if you're on the south end of the library, 2nd floor. And once they have it in their mind that you are or might be something dangerous, there's no use protesting to them. You're better off simply staying away from such people. And ironically in some cases this sort of marginalizing of good people is self-serving...it makes the staff think they are superior and protectors while all patrons are second-class citizens, or simply "possibly" so.
re PUBLIC LIBRARIES & SEXUAL OFFENDERS
I must warn you that SOME public libraries apparently assume that some of their patrons are sexual offenders. In a few situations as I was traveling and visited a public library I definitely got the feeling that they thought that I was a possible "predator" (wrongly so, of course! I am not a sexual offender ...never committed any such crime nor have the proclivity for such...needless to say never been convicted of such) ...and in one case, oddly enough, closer to home, I used the stairs to exit the newport beach main library...which means you walk thru the children's section as you leave..and the lady librarian said cryptically to me that I should not walk thru the children's section again. It's a shortcut if you're on the south end of the library, 2nd floor. And once they have it in their mind that you are or might be something dangerous, there's no use protesting to them. You're better off simply staying away from such people. And ironically in some cases this sort of marginalizing of good people is self-serving...it makes the staff think they are superior and protectors while all patrons are second-class citizens, or simply "possibly" so.
Let me repeat: In some cases they may treat you as a possible predator NOT because they truly think you actually may be but for the sake of marginalizing you for politics sake...could be gender politics, racial politics, sexual orientation politics, etc. (ie in some cases females may try to marginalize males for the sake of gender politics; in other cases a gay person may try to marginalize a straight person for the sake of sexual orientation politics; and the list goes on).Unfortunately, the straight white Christian male is too often the target these days.
So I am just saying, beware..and don't get yourself in trouble. Stay away from libraries or certain sections of the library where the employees act this way.
So I am just saying, beware..and don't get yourself in trouble. Stay away from libraries or certain sections of the library where the employees act this way.
Fortunately, there are plenty of good libraries where you can walk thru the children's section (because it's an integrated part of the library, not because you have a "thing" for kids) without feeling like you are Osama Bin Laden in an American airport.
