New father Damien Leeson was at a shopping center in Queensland, Australia, with his wife and baby daughter, when little Harpah needed a diaper change. Without thinking, Damien took Harpah to the parents' bathroom to change her [1], and all was well until a woman walked in with her son.

"She looked at me and started laying into me, saying that it was 'disgusting to see a fully-grown man in a parents' room with a little girl,'" Damien told Daily Mail Australia. "She kept saying I was a 'dirty old man.'" Damien told his wife about the exchange and both were shocked by the woman's reaction to the simple act of a father changing his daughter. "How can someone say that to someone who is just looking after their kid?" he said.

Many dads have spoken up lately about equal parenting [2] and not wanting praise for simply taking care of their children, and Damien feels the same way. "I'm quite a hands-on father, whatever I can do to help my wife, I will," he said. "What's a bloke supposed to do anyway if he's a single dad? My point is it's a parents' room, not a mothers' room. There are no change tables in the male bathroom."