things that women can do/say and men can't

I have always joked about the Mrs habit of taking photos of babies or kids that are not her own. I would often say to her about how she often had enough pictures of babies to fill at least 5 photo albums and she hadn't even given birth to any of them. Many times we would be walking through the streets of Singapore and she would see kids playing in fountains or on the street and her camera would be out and she would be snapping pictures like mad.

I figure this is something that a man can not do but a woman could do. After all, if you see a woman snapping pictures of babies and kids then you think motherly instincts and no one bats an eye. A guy takes a picture of strangers kids on a playground or fountain and he is instantly a pedophile or some sick pervert and is questioned by the police or even the parents in the playground and probably asked to leave immediately.

I was also laughing at things that a woman can say that a man could definitely not get away with. We went to a friends house on Halloween for a little party and her sister was getting in to the whole mood of the Halloween spirit by dressing up and doing the 'scary' things for the little kids. They had their front yard covered in cardboard grave stones, ghosts hanging from a tree, a brain lit in a jar on the table and even the 'cobwebs' of cotton hanging around to give it an eerie appearance. Whenever trick or treaters came to the door they had to reach in and touch the items that they had in this little container. It held a sort of plastic/soft rubber ear and two fingers. In itself that really is not bad, right? The kicker was in the way that she presented it to the kids that would get smiles and giggles from the parents that were with them but if a guy was to say it and the parents were looking out at the street, I am sure many a butt would have been kicked. She would open the door, look at them and say "I want you to touch something!" Oh yeah, I heard that from the other room and nearly choked on my M&M.