http://americannewsx.com/human-inte...oom-banner-startling-rant-everyone-must-read/ I’ve stayed silent long enough. Let me break this down for you. I have a daughter. She’s 6. She has the loudest laugh and the spazziest dance moves you’ve ever seen. I’m not scared by a bathroom. In just a few years she may develop an eating disorder. She may be pressured to suck dick, or spread her legs, or sext, or chug booze.. All before she is the age of 13. Does this shock you?!? Good. That’s the point. Statistically- all are true.. How does this happen??? Every second- every day- she is surrounded by images, songs, commercial, and more that mold her. I have a 6 year old.. She swims in the bathtub with goggles. Creates waves that create puddles all over my floor. I laugh at her joy. She asks to fall asleep in our bed. She still snuggles me on the couch, and when she falls asleep I carry her to be bed covered in fairy lights. She’s scared of the bogeyman. He’s real. He’ll rape her while she’s walking to her car. It will be her fault- she shouldn’t have been walking by herself of course. He’ll grab her ass while she’s serving him a drink. She’ll smile and ignore because she needs the tip. He’ll pay her less than her male counterparts. He’ll make condescending remarks about how she will make “cute babies”- before he hands her his hotel room keycard. Again, all statistically true. Ask the female in your life if she’s ever been scared to walk to her car. Had to hold her purse a bit closer, keys in hand, lock the door immediately. Ask her how many times she looked over her shoulder. Ask your sister, or mother, or wife how many promotions she was passed over for, how many men have leered or cat called her, how many small concessions she’s made just to be seen as equal. My daughter is 6. She loves ponies, and swimming, and daddy. She runs like the wind and rides her pink bike for hours. Begs me for one more cannonball. One more circling of the block. She lives in a world that is built for men. Rewards men. Glorifies men. A patriarchal world where men can make statements like “I need to protect my daughter from “freaks” in bathrooms” but that also doesn’t point out the hypocrisy of not protecting them from assault, gender pay gaps, objectification, and abuse. I hate to break it to you. Your daughter is less likely to be preyed on in a bathroom by a “freak” and more likely to be viciously raped before the age of 35. By someone who looks probably a lot like you.. Completely normal. Scare you? It should. It scares me. My daughters least worry should be the Target bathroom. Because she needs to be prepared for the world we’ve made for her. And it’s a terrifying one. But by all means- go protest a Target. Because that’s the real problem right?!? My daughter is 6. We have so much to do. I have to raise a warrior.. To save her. From you. *mic drop
Several decades ago, I was approached by a nice looking lady with two beautiful daughters, about the 6-8 year old range. She requested a business meeting. She only took a couple of minutes of my time and it ended well and without incident. However, during the entire short meeting, the mother had a very angry look on her face. Even the two young girls stared at me with hate. I had never met any of them before that day. Then I noticed the mother was wearing a small pin that said. “The only good man is a dead man”. I have no idea what happened in this ladies life to make her hate all men. But it was obvious she was teaching her two daughters to also hate all men. I think of them often, and hope the daughters turned out OK. For some reason, this rant reminded me of them. Not sure where to go with this topic. It is sad on so many levels.
I am now officially creeped out. Straight cis men from anti-gay groups are now a self appointed bathroom police. They have signs and T shirts that say "no men in women's bathrooms" (funny, never say no women in men's bathrooms, maybe that's their fantasy?) and stand at the doors of women's restrooms to check out the women entering. To make sure the women are women enough for them to let in. I have not yet heard about them preventing any woman from entering. Would they physically drag her out if she was not "womanly" enough for them? I swear if I see one of these aholes I will 1) complain to the manager and 2) kick their fucking balls off. Does this look like a woman to you? Does this? Both are born female. Frankly, I'd be a tad disconcerted to see them in the ladies' room. If I saw her I would probably just ask for an autograph. Laverne Cox, transgender woman, sure looks a lot more like a woman th
Look, as long as women aren't pretending to be men to avoid the lines to get in women's bathrooms I'm fine with it. When we start having gender neutral bathrooms I'm going to be screwed. I hate when people don't realize how good they have it. If the cool chick from Orange Is The New Black still had his penis I'd be fine with her using the men's room. That is what urinals are for....
A lot of places have gender neutral restrooms. Single stall. I confess there have been a few occasions in my life when women crashed the men's room due to long lines. We did not pretend to be men. Just went into stalls and peed. Laverne Cox is a way and would use the women's restroom. I don't check the genitals of women in restrooms but apparently those male bathroom police feel entitled to.
I spent from 8:30 am to 6 pm in jury duty selection chambers and it kind of relates to this thread. It was a sex abuse case....bum in his mid 30s that I know from the local grocery where he spare changes and is a drunk....12 year old girl and her mom...she says he touched her vagina. Now there were 266 candidates for the 12 person jury. I was chosen for the last 50 and in the back...40 through 50...I listened to defense and prosecution attorney's question the 40 ahead of me all day about how they felt about sexual abuse and the first lady said she was abused....she was excused from duty...then one by one every woman who was interviewed claimed sexual abuse or abuse of another female in the family or friend...all were excused....the female contingent was dwindling and the prosecutor wanted some female jurors....I was shocked....either that that many women had been abused or raped or that that many lied to get out of what will probably be a week long trial. At the end of the day I was excused without interview. The second question by the defense lawyer to men was....do women lie about these things? I wanted to scream at the guy!
All well and good, dviss1, but like any position on something like this, there are different perspectives from varying life experiences. Like the friend of a Facebook friend who, as a young girl was raped with regularity by some pervert family acquaintance. When she heard that the women's restroom, a place that seemed like a safe zone, might be mandated to be open to people with male genitalia, she freaked out. Her Facebook friends told her she just had to get over it. Easier said than done, I expect.
Well, tons of women are abused in one way or another and if you count how many women are friends you are bound to find one somewhere. I wouldn't dare ask my wife if anything ever happened to her. I guess I'm a pussy and don't wanna know.
While I have total sympathy for any girl or woman (for that matter boy or man) sexually abused it has zero to do with bathroom police. Repeat, there has not been a single case of a transgender woman attacking a girl or woman in a ladies' room or any man pretending to be transgender to do so. Men have followed women into restrooms and assaulted them but they were not "pretending to be women", they were straight male sexual abusers/rapists. This was just the locale they chose. There are laws against assault. The so called bathroom bills are just an attempt to stigmatize transgender people. Just like the "gays in the showers" in the military. Or the "black people have germs" during school desegregation. Or the "unisex toilets" by ERA opponents. In women's restrooms, there are stalls. Each woman is in her own stall by herself with the door closed. There are a few exceptions like small children or disabled people who need assistance, but they still are behind closed doors. I have been in probably thousands of women's restrooms in my life and I have not ONE TIME seen another person's genitals. Ever. I have no idea what "equipment" they have and frankly don't care. Go in stall, close door, pee/poop, change sanitary pad/tampon if needed, pull up pants. Wash hands. Maybe comb hair or fix makeup. Occasionally brush teeth. These are the exciting sexy things that go on in women's restrooms and they are not scary. The only scary thing is straight men standing outside trying to determine if we are women enough for THEM to let in. Go mind your own fucking business and let me pee in peace.
in the jury selection I'd say 18 of the first 20 women claimed prior abuse...the 2 that didn't were really old ladies that grew up in the 40's ...I was shocked but it did make me wonder if the first claim and it's result snowballed to get out of jury duty
Yeah, I get it but some of them might have been abused and figured for once it would benefit them, probably the only time in their lives.
She makes the point that rapists are a common threat to young girls, which is the main reason we don' let men (despite what they may say or do or feel) enter women's bathrooms. It is a simple norm of our society and most others that has probably saved millions of young girls from sexual attacks. It has nothing at all to do with gender identity. 99% or more of all adult males going into a women's restroom are sex offenders, and it's not like the 1% gender-identity crowd has a badge or name-tag, or ID card. It's open season on little girls so a ridiculously flawed pc point can be mis-made.
