At first I thought the thread title was “Ask the Mom Who…”
Interesting - thanks!
I can tell you’re not male. I can guarantee you that if he had gone about his usual routine and taken his clothes off, he would have opened himself up to charges of being a sexual predator or worse.
This is not an even playing field we’re talking about here.
Wow, you just don’t care WHAT crazies you pull out of the woodwork to fight you for saying this, do you?
Good luck.
Agreed.
It’s an unfortunate truth. This lady likely knew that she is entitled to go anywhere she pleases, including the men’s locker room, and she MUST be accommodated. Men are aware that there is a complete double standard, and one single word from her could completely ruin their lives. She would know this too.
ETA: It’s possible she was just waiting for any sort of confrontation. The OP did the right (and safe) thing.
See, now you’re just taunting the crazies.
Simply report to the management that there’s a lady in the mens room taking the clothes off a young boy. Let them get to the bottom of this.
No, because a woman crazy enough to walk into the men’s locker room would just counter with her own false claim of molestation, etc… And her claim would get more traction because she’s a woman accusing a man. We’re under suspicion just because we’re men.
The OP should have just changed. Maybe as modestly as he could.
Where I swim, the “family changing area” is one locker bay (of two) in the ladies’ changing room. When kids are present (boys or girls), we ladies tilt towards the modesty option (towels, long tees), partly because some parents are sensitive to adult nudity around children, but mostly because the little ones don’t need to see our mastectomy and hip replacement scars, etc.
Actually IIRC Muffin is in fact male.
And some of you guys are over the top paranoid. I can see worrying if you are anyplace other than the men’s room, but really…
All I can think of is that the womens changing room was too crowded maybe?
I still don’t know what an ‘Area Mom’ is though
I get that there’s a double standard when it comes to these sorts of things, but there is no way in hell of what you describe happening. That’s just over the top.
Yup, I’m a burping, farting, dong dangling male. Yeeee-haaawwwww!
Euphonious Polemic has a point, although I think he over-states it. A “guarantee” of being open to charges? No, for implied consent on the part of the woman was given when she chose to use the men’s change-room.
But that being said, when someone does something that indicates that she is living in her own world without much regard to others, all bets are off as to whether or not she will do other wacky things, one of which might be making a fuss about a man getting naked in a men’s change-room after (rather than before) she entered it, so I certainly understand why a man might prefer to limit such a risk by either waiting to change, or simply leaving the room while the woman is there.
For myself? Meh. I wouldn’t be worried about the risk, despite the woman not being quite right in the head, and despite the playing field not being remotely even.
No, what’s over the top is the current “if there are 5 men in a room, 6 of them belong on a sex offender registry” zeitgeist in this country. That is what’s over the top, I’m comfortable saying.
I can’t even smile at children when I’m out in public without my family. Women look at me like I’m a criminal. Yeah, I’m talking to you, every woman under the age of 50 who’s reading this. The pendulum has swung a little too far in the other direction, IMHO.
Try being a man. I can’t even smile at cute little babies in public unless I’m with my family. I get looked at like I’m a criminal if I do. And I’m not scary-looking;I’m thin, clean, well-groomed (within the usual range of lazy men), and slightly shorter than average. That doesn’t mean anything, though.
It’s a play on the internet ads “Area Mom Discovers Weird Weight-Loss Trick” “Area Mom Looking For Studs Like You. Click Here!” and so on.
I thought it was just a reference to the style of headline writing often found in The Onion.
Which came first? 
The sex offender.
If I’m out by myself and I see an adult with a kid, I pay more attention to the kid than to the adult, because the kid might be a kid I taught or who goes to my school, and I’m pretty lousy with faces, and I don’t want to walk right past a kid whom I’ve taught and snub the kid. In order not to just be glaring at the kid, I smile. And then I smile at the adult. And I never get looked at like I’m a criminal. The phenomenon you’re describing is most likely a delusion.