Scottsdale man accusing Barnes & Noble of sex bias

[Behind the Aegis]

A Scottsdale man is claiming that a Barnes & Noble bookstore discriminated against him when an employee forced him out of the store because he was a male shopper alone in the children's area.

Omar Amin, 73, said store worker Todd Voris told him that a female shopper had complained about him being in the children's area May 4 in the store at Shea Boulevard and Loop 101 in Scottsdale.

Amin, who was alone at the time, said he was in Barnes & Noble to buy books for his two grandchildren who live in Wisconsin.

"Men alone cannot be by themselves in the children's area," Amin said he was told, adding that Voris said other bookstores had encountered problems with child molesters.


Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2012/05/31/20120531scottsdale-barnes-noble-sex-bias.html#ixzz1wwZ1evFd

Disturbing!

[seabeyond]

1. can i say in this group, having read this yesterday, everything about it offends

and bothers me, too. and as a whole should reject this behavior. especially women as a group should call it out and not allow.

WITH the information that we have been given. IF any of the facts change, i reserve the right to change what i say.

on edit... change what i say to a point. about a specific incidence. i think we really need to not allow a perpetration of pedophilia blanket a whole gender. we had a conversation about this at the dinner table last night. it was more trying to get my two sons and hubby to see it beyond. they tended to be much harsher on their gender than i.