no more, no less. a pediatrician looks at ALL parents as POTENTIAL abusers.

[stevenleser]

328. Your stats are right, very few women who are raped make false claims I posted a graphic on

that myself in the feminists forum. Its also true that very few men rape and very few parents abuse their children percentage wise. If we are going to regard even cases where small percentages of certain cohorts of people do things as "All X group of people are potential actors of some bad activity" that persons comparison works, and we can continue:

All people are potential murderers, or we can say all women are potential murderers, or all men are potential murderers or all X are potential murderers where X is any ethnicity or orientation or religion.

All people are potential robbers and thieves or we can say all women are potential robbers and thieves, or all men are potential robbers and thieves or all X are potential robbers and thieves where X is any ethnicity or orientation or religion.

I think these kinds of assertions are all inflammatory and intentionally offensive. No pediatrician gave me the impression they regarded me as a potential abuser of my child. If they had, in that moment they would have been my ex-pediatrician. If their profession requires them to be on the lookout for abuse, every one I came in contact with had the tact and people skills to do whatever checks they did without labeling me a potential abuser.

The shocking thing is that anyone is surprised that people take offense when we say to someone "Because of the gender, race, ethnicity, or religion you are, I regard you as a potential actor of a bad thing."

That is pretty close to the generic definition of prejudice. "In recent times, the word has come to be most often used to refer to preconceived, usually unfavorable, judgments toward people or a person because of gender, social class, age, disability, religion, sexuality, race/ethnicity, language, nationality or other personal characteristics." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice