Capturing just the audio is better than nothing at all. Just point it in her general direction.
ETA: your OP situation was bizarre, I must say.
I don’t see the issue in this scenario 
. I would just give her a heads up that I am going to change. Then depending on her reaction, I would proceed to change, or request her to leave, or call the management, or whatever.
Of course, this would only work if the person is ok with changing in front of someone of the opposite gender, which I am fine with.
I definitely thought so!
Has the management been informed that there was a mistake made when the new change-room signs were installed?
It’s not every time, but so what? I’m very sensitive to posture and facial expression, and have a long memory for pain of any type. Just a few times was enough. I gave up, unless I’m with my family.
“So what” is you saying:
[emphasis, of course, added]
This claim was, as I said earlier, likely a delusion. Your new claim appears slightly different. Let me see if I understand it: you’re saying something like,
“Over the course of my life, a few times, women have glared at me when I smiled at their babies. I’m so sensitive that just a few times of this happening means I won’t smile at kids any more.”
Is that correct?
Now your claim doesn’t come across as a delusion–but it also doesn’t come across as anything more than a personal problem, one best solved by being less sensitive to perceived slights and less willing to paint all “women under the age of 50” with the broad brush you painted them with.
sigh
See what you’ve done now LOHD? get lives probably will give up posting because every poster here, yeah I’m talking to you every poster on the SD, is mean to him.
This place is basically a more intellectual version of the YouTube comments section. But kindness doesn’t abound online, in a general sense.
“Joey, do you like gladiator movies?”
That’s absolutely true. Why, just the other day I saw someone accuse all women under the age of 50 of being nasty to innocent guys smiling at kids.
(Seriously, do you see yourself in a position to criticize the kindness of others?)
I’m the one trying to avoid creeping paranoid people out. It looks to me like, since I’m not bothering to lecture random paranoid women about their paranoia, that I AM being kind. As for complaining about it here, it’s not like I started a thread about it. It was an offhand comment, mainly. Why not just let it the fuck go? Are you pursuing this for some grand purpose of some type? That’s a rhetorical question. Please don’t answer it.
I am, seriously, going to try to phrase this as kindly as possible.
Your responded to comment does not come off as trying to avoid creeping paranoid people out but about your paranoia. You’ve now stated that maybe in fact there have been a few times that you (self-admittedly extremely “very sensitive” and with a “long memory” for perceived offense) experienced some slight negative reaction and felt that such warranted the conclusion that it is hard to be a male because all women under 50 will treat you like a criminal if you even smile at a baby. As part of a group of males who were bemoaning how unfair the world is to males now, such an unfair playing field, at risk of being charged as a sexual predator for changing in the men’s room, one single word from a women capable of completely ruin their lives, under suspicion just because they’re men …
Rhetorical question or not there is an answer: the thread had veered in that paranoid direction so responding was appropriate.
Put in me in the bracket that votes for a family changing room AKA parents with young kids.
Beyond that if the kid is young enough to need parental assistance, the parent should use their own sex changing room. It is rude beyond belief to use the opposite sex changing room. If the kid is autistic or otherwise needs help, again family room.
Does this place not have toilets?
Actually, yes, I am: if you’ll only admit that you were painting women with too broad a brush, if you’ll only grant women the individual treatment that you’d like to receive instead of treating them as representatives of their gender as you fear they do to you–if you’ll only do this, all the Mens Rights Advocates on the planet have agreed to lay down their weapons, to stop tweeting rape threats at female journalists, and go home. It’s hard to imagine a grander purpose than that.
Unless, of course, I was posting here for the same reason I always do, which is to say, I enjoy doing so.
If I smile at a kid, and his mom gives me a look indicating that she fears me as a result of this smile, even if it’s only one out of 50 or 100, that disturbs me. I truly want to avoid making people uncomfortable in my presence. I’m not going to make jokes or insult people, unlike you, because this issue is a little too real for that, IMHO. YMMV
It does, although not separately from the locker rooms. The mom was just a few feet away from the toilet area (three urinals and two stalls) in the men’s locker room. Though I’d still rather she not walk through.
Nobody here has criticized you for not smiling. Nobody. That’s your decision. What you’ve been criticized for is making ugly broad-brush claims about all women under the age of fifty.
First, except you did insult people, which is what started this off; and second, no, it’s really not a real problem. One out of 100 people are kind of crazy, and if their craziness extends no further than being suspicious of a dude that smiles at their kid, that’s not actually rising to the level of a real problem.
It’s a real problem to me, but I’m not blaming individual people. I just ask that those who read this try to be aware that not every man under 50 by himself, out in public, is a sex offender. LOL
I felt like I *was *being criticized for not smiling/interacting with other people’s kids when mine aren’t present, even though (maybe even because?!?) I said I don’t fault other parents for having this attitude, and in fact copped to it myself.