Hello all,

Regarding men going to museums alone, you may be interested in a NY
Times article from last year titled "The Man Date" about how some men
are socially uncomfortable going out in pairs.  The article starts
with a visit to MoMA in which straight friends are so paranoid about
being seen as gay that they ignore each other in the galleries.  The
article was reprinted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and it got a
flood of letters.  Here are links:

The Man Date; What do you call two straight men having dinner?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/fashion/10date.html?ei=5090&en=37bef79604f97228&ex=1270785600&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all

Man date article sure gets the guys' attention
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/219990_mandates14.html

Cordially,

Travis



On 12/12/06, Rizzo, Mary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My original intent was to focus less on the issue of security for female
> staffers and more on the cultural scripts that potentially discourage
> women from visiting sites alone (or, alternately, empower men to do so),
> but since the security and safety issue has become tantamount I'd also
> like to throw in that females who volunteer in museums may be very
> young, like high school age. We used minors to conduct tours at one
> museum I worked at--where it was likely that there would only be one
> staff person and a volunteer on the site at any one time--and it became
> an issue. I won't get into details, but it involved a visitor who
> offered a gift to his tour guide, who was a girl under 18. She saw
> nothing wrong with this, though the staff did and took actions to alert
> parents and police.
>
> So, not just gender, but age plays in as well.
>
> Mary Rizzo
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