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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is always the point.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

As shitty and tragic as this is I have to smile at the thought that at some point these fucks will 'patrol' the wrong women and get righteously stomped.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The solution is so simple to me. Please explain why we can't just have gender neutral bathrooms with actually private stalls/changing rooms and just a shared handwashing area?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because none of this is actually about bathroom privacy. It's about an excuse to hate and fear the other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh. The vast majority of feminists I know regularly complain that they don't feel safe being around men.

They use rhetoric similar to racists by saying men are more likely to commit acts of violence than women, so it's okay to discriminate against them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

When you say things like this is it a Strawoman or a Straw-woman or Strawperson? I feel like there isn't a good way to spell it.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Because that costs more to install per toilet.

Money is why you cannot have privacy, safety, or a better experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because women don't like going to the bathroom with men.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

So I guess now we need our own vigilantes to keep those other vigilantes in check. Should have purged the remnants of the Confederacy back in 1865, no amnesty for traitors.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Republican Vagilante pee pee patrol

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

This makes me so sad.

Thank goodness I’ll be out of this horrorshow state soon.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Something like 80 years ago there were no gender specific bathrooms. It was just, The Bathroom

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

In Canada, there were gendered entrances to stores 80 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I just made a comment how the protest solution is simple. Sledgehammer the urinals and then all bathrooms are genderless...

Do that more than once and I almost guarantee the establishment says "fuck it, we're not replacing those again"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Easy solution... no more gendered bathrooms.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh good, any cis-woman who happens to look more on the masculine side will be in trouble now too.

Edit: Added cis. Apologies for not doing that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is something I'm kind of scared of. I'm a cis woman, but I have facial hair for medical reasons. I keep it because it's what nature gave me and I kinda like how it looks, and people generally don't seem to care. I do fear, though, that I might be harassed for it someday.

I thought of this with the whole Planet Fitness fiasco. Many, many women shave their faces, but the "can always tell" crowd is so sure that they know men from women.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

One of my wife's cis co-workers has a mustache. She definitely would look like "a man in a dress" to these bigoted fucks. She probably already gets harassed all the time, which is awful because she's really nice and loves working with the public (she's a librarian).

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Fuck it. New protest...

Take a sledge hammer to every urinal... all bathrooms are gender neutral now.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excuse me sir, we are required to check for penises and vaginas at the door. Thanks for understandi...dang dog! Is that thing 12 inches?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Pretty impressive to have a 12-inch vagina! Congratulations!!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just put enough stalls there aswell as urinals and make it gender neutral. Most men don't care about women in their bathrooms anyway. It's - as demonstrated by this article - women that care. Wether it be gender neutral bathrooms or trans athletes it's almost exclusively biological women that are the only ones with something to lose.

Where I go swimming there's almost always female staff doing cleaning in the men's locker and shower rooms and nobody gives a damn. Good luck putting a male cleaner in the female shower space though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Armed queers bash back.

SocialistRA.org

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fuck hate guns but I am starting to understand it now. I am not a member of the LGBT but if I were I might consider going around armed.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any wonder LGBT folks are one of the largest gun buying demographics in the past few years? Ain't that something?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh look the followers of Christ are at it again

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