Selection 1A Real lossI was sitting in back of a little girl flying as an unaccompanied无随从的 minor末成年
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Selection 1
A Real loss
I was sitting in back of a little girl flying as an unaccompanied无随从的 minor末成年人，副修科目 , put on the plane by a mother who placed a Care Bear in her arms and told her to remind Daddy to call when she got to California. The girl adjusted her seat belt and sniffed back a tear, bravely setting her jaw颌，下巴.
As we prepared for takeoff, the man next to the girl asked her the name of her bear and nodded in approval, saying Furry was a good name for a bear. When the little girl told him she was 6 years old, the man replied that he had a daughter who was 6 years old. His daughter was missing the same teeth, in fact. He asked how much money the tooth fairy was giving out in New York these days.
By the time we were in the air, the man and the little girl were playing tic-tac-toe, and she revealed透露 to him the names of her favorite特别喜欢的 friends. Somewhere over Ohio, I fell asleep, awakened by my mother instinct when I heard a child announce that she had to go to the bathroom.
“It’s in the back, right?” I heard the girl say to the man. She looked tentative尝试的. The flight attendants服务员 were busy collecting lunch trays盘子.
“Do you want me to take you there?” the man asked, standing.
At once my antennae were up and, leaning into the aisle, I craned my neck, practically knocking heads with the woman in the seat across from me. For one moment our eyes locked. She had been listening, too, and both of us had the same idea. Would this man go into the bathroom with the child? I held my breath as he held open the bathroom door. Suddenly, he became transformed in my eyes--the dark business suit looked sinister险恶的, the friendly smile really a lure引诱 to something evil罪恶.
Then the man showed the little girl how the lock worked and waited outside the door. The woman and I sighed叹息 in relief安慰. She said, “Well, you can’t be too careful these days.”
I’ve thought about that man on the plane since then, and the image of him and the little girl always leaves an empty sorrow. I know that a new heightened提高 consciousness意识、觉悟 about child molestation 骚扰is in itself 本质上，就其本身而言a good thing. I know that sexual abuse of children is awful可怕的, and that we must guard against it . But it saddened me that I looked at someone who understood a child’s fear and saw a child molester.
These are trying times for men. We women say how we want men to be sensitive敏感的 and nurturing教养, to be caring有同情心的 and affectionate亲爱的. But my sense is that now these qualities品质 cannot be readily容易地 displayed without arousing引起 suspicion怀疑. Perhaps there is some sort of ironic讽刺的 retribution报偿 for all those years of accepting the male stereotypes老套. But there is a real loss here for us all when we must always be wary机警的 of the kindness of strangers.
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A Real loss
I was sitting in back of a little girl flying as an unaccompanied无随从的 minor末成年人，副修科目 , put on the plane by a mother who placed a Care Bear in her arms and told her to remind Daddy to call when she got to California. The girl adjusted her seat belt and sniffed back a tear, bravely setting her jaw颌，下巴.
As we prepared for takeoff, the man next to the girl asked her the name of her bear and nodded in approval, saying Furry was a good name for a bear. When the little girl told him she was 6 years old, the man replied that he had a daughter who was 6 years old. His daughter was missing the same teeth, in fact. He asked how much money the tooth fairy was giving out in New York these days.
By the time we were in the air, the man and the little girl were playing tic-tac-toe, and she revealed透露 to him the names of her favorite特别喜欢的 friends. Somewhere over Ohio, I fell asleep, awakened by my mother instinct when I heard a child announce that she had to go to the bathroom.
“It’s in the back, right?” I heard the girl say to the man. She looked tentative尝试的. The flight attendants服务员 were busy collecting lunch trays盘子.
“Do you want me to take you there?” the man asked, standing.
At once my antennae were up and, leaning into the aisle, I craned my neck, practically knocking heads with the woman in the seat across from me. For one moment our eyes locked. She had been listening, too, and both of us had the same idea. Would this man go into the bathroom with the child? I held my breath as he held open the bathroom door. Suddenly, he became transformed in my eyes--the dark business suit looked sinister险恶的, the friendly smile really a lure引诱 to something evil罪恶.
Then the man showed the little girl how the lock worked and waited outside the door. The woman and I sighed叹息 in relief安慰. She said, “Well, you can’t be too careful these days.”
I’ve thought about that man on the plane since then, and the image of him and the little girl always leaves an empty sorrow. I know that a new heightened提高 consciousness意识、觉悟 about child molestation 骚扰is in itself 本质上，就其本身而言a good thing. I know that sexual abuse of children is awful可怕的, and that we must guard against it . But it saddened me that I looked at someone who understood a child’s fear and saw a child molester.
These are trying times for men. We women say how we want men to be sensitive敏感的 and nurturing教养, to be caring有同情心的 and affectionate亲爱的. But my sense is that now these qualities品质 cannot be readily容易地 displayed without arousing引起 suspicion怀疑. Perhaps there is some sort of ironic讽刺的 retribution报偿 for all those years of accepting the male stereotypes老套. But there is a real loss here for us all when we must always be wary机警的 of the kindness of strangers.
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