My favorite resturants are the ones that just removed both signs and have bathrooms.
Which one is male or female? Who knows!? Doesn’t matter.
We need to ban orginized religion.
These genital obsessed freaks need to be shamed back into the shadows.
We also need people to start dressing up as ICE and disappearing prominent conservatives.
Even the largest pervert isn’t as concerned with sexuality as much as the average religious dummy.
Gotta go put on your lady face and feel uncomfortable to use the restroom as a trans man now.
Can’t make the straights feel things!
And we certainly can’t have any ungendered bathrooms in public spaces. No siree.
/s (obv.)
Also speaking as a cis straight male, this is fucking stupid. Use whatever bathroom you feel comfortable going into, don’t be a creep and certainly don’t rape anyone… Those directives may be targeted at different groups of people… Just saying.
Be who you want to be.
The American obsession with bathroom segregation is weird. In other countries, women will sometimes use the men’s bathroom when there’s a long line in front of the women’s and not the men’s. Fathers needing to change a diaper on their kid sometimes use the baby changing station in the women’s bathroom if that’s where it’s located (though that’s increasingly being fixed).
This is not something that requires excessive legislation if you can avoid obsessing over other people’s genitals.
America has terrible brain worms and a market set up so people are paid to make them worse not fix them
This is the point of these laws. It’s not to protect people it’s to make existing in public impossible for trans people
It’s not about bathrooms, it’s certainly not about “protecting” anyone. They do not give two shits about actual assaults against women and children.
It’s about sending a political message, a threat against a marginalized group that can be demonized for not fitting social norms, but is also not strong enough or connected enough to push back and rile up public support. Something like saying “You’re not allowed to use the bathroom” is a deeply personal and sensitive topic that will absolutely crush someone of any group and it’s prone to not getting the public attention that it needs. I mean, who wants to talk about how they need to shit?
It’s been wildly successful too, because the people who actually care spend all their time in social-media echo-chambers, even like this one, instead of doing community organization and activism. Even suggesting it will probably draw in opposition here from people who feel helpless. And yeah, they’ll be right, it’s much, much harder now because we didn’t do this shit back when the playing field was more level and this was just 4-chan trolls and reddit communities and there wasn’t billions of dollars invested in the success of the of the distraction-campaign.
We can still turn this around but we can’t do it the same way. We have to fight far, far dirtier, we have to make bot-armies, troll accounts, we have to put ourselves at risk, we have to directly target efforts towards libs and neo-libs who maybe, sorta, kinda care about issues that impact other citizens, but need a swift kick in the ass to realize they’re on the wrong side of history. We have to project the image of mass-support at any opportunity. When you are talking or arguing about these issues, you have to do the same thing they did, which is play up that your movement is gaining support and momentum broadly, not withering under blistering hate and capitalist efforts. We have to be less afraid of wild rhetoric and playing uncivil. Be less afraid of negative attention. We have to call people bad words and be less afraid of offending our own side, because there are a lot of people on our side who aren’t really.
We have to actually argue with our shitty uncle and not “let it go.” We have to make friends in real-space and we have to hang out in public and be seen and stand united against hateful monsters.
We have to be that group of San Diego citizens who SHAMED a bunch of modern klansmen (ICE agents) into retreating from their neighborhood.
All the hard shit. You have to do that. You have to get real social real fast. Yeah, it does suck.
Yeah! It’s why a lot of the times when I think about leaving the house, I just don’t! The stochastic terrorism has worked!
I’d also like to add… no one cares whos in what bathroom when you are in line at a portapotty do they? This shit is stupid.
Many people I know with kids feel like the line is crossed when children are involved. Without kids it doesn’t matter but once kids are involved in the bathroom then things get more sensitive
I don’t myself mind sharing the bathroom with a <N-word.> I am not some Klan member! But when my kids are involved, I have to draw a line. Kids aren’t old enough to understand black people and their culture. Black folks need to use the bathroom at home or use a black-only bathroom. I’ll happily share a bathroom with a black man, but my wife or kids shouldn’t have to. They’re just not equipped to handle the complexities of the situation. Don’t call me a racist, I just have concerns for the safety of children.
Human garbage never changes.
The attempt by the right to pretend like children can’t handle knowing about the existence of LGBTQ people is horrible propaganda and projection.
In reality there are a ton lgbtq children who are forced to be cis. If they knew about lgbtq identities and were given a choice many wouldn’t choose to be cis.
I say this as a trans woman who didn’t even know what transition looked like or felt comfortable transitioning until decades after school. I would have suffered so much less in my life if all of this was explained to me in middle school.
So stupid. There’s a good stand up bit that covers it - https://youtube.com/shorts/jrBlC3q0Fwo
On a different side of the coin, the virtue signaling also bothers me. I was at a fast casual restaurant and went to use the bathroom and the sign on the door said “Gender neutral bathroom” and I was like “oh word, that’s pretty progressive I like this place” and then I walked in and there’s one toilet and a sink and the door locks. Motherfucker, that’s just a bathroom. You don’t need to specify “gender neutral” when it’s a one-person bathroom. Fuck outa here.
I’ve never seen a gender-neutral restroom that wasn’t just a one-person bathroom though…
I have. Floor to ceiling stalls, with no gaps. It was great.
Yup, been in these and this is what I imagine when I hear “gender neutral bathroom” shared sink space and private stalls. Fully in support of this.
I was at a George Thorogood concert and opened the door on a woman taking a shit in a portapotty. There were no lines so I just walked up and picked door number 2.
What I’m saying is I do care a little bit who’s in there.
Ever heard of knocking?
What part of “George Thorogood concert” do you not understand? This wasn’t a shitter in the middle of nowhere. Locking the door is a lot more effective than trying to be louder than I Drink Alone. Yeah, you know when I shit alone I prefer to be by myself.
You would have preferred a manlier shit?
I’ve been waiting for a story like this to happen in the UK for a while now. When I saw this I was actually surprised to see it was in the US. It’s only a matter of time, if it hasn’t already happened.
Yeah - my understanding was that there was a carve out explicitly for trans men with that UK ruling, which effectively meant its illegal for trans men to piss in either bathroom? We aren’t men, but we also can’t use the women’s.
My state doesn’t have bathroom laws yet - except for in schools (and my dumbass thought - science teacher shortage! if I’m needed and doing something good I get to be a human being right?)
I hope that police department likes lawsuits.
Just shit in your hand and start throwing it at patrons. It’s the only way
Kind of weird there was to toilet in men’s room. Like I guess wheel chair bros don’t need to go?
why does anybody give a fuck what bathroom you use in the first fucking place
Because you might be a sexual predator, and a law banning trans people from bathrooms will definitely stop a rapist.
In other words, irrationality.
Relevant stand up bit - https://youtube.com/shorts/jrBlC3q0Fwo
In the US, bathrooms didn’t used to even have gender.
Yeah, but they were certainly segregated, and you see how well that worked out
I bet genderless bathrooms didn’t have huge gaps in the stalls.
my point exactly
Was it White and Coloreds back then?
These bigots continue to harass trans people.
These people are so illogical, it doesn’t make any sense. It is just blind hatred. There is no data. Nothing that confirms their wrapped view or reality. In fact, these bigots are more likely to harm someone.
Strobel said he plans on defending himself in court
That’s a bad idea, even though he has an easy case (in theory).
Yeah and it’s not just about how easy or hard the case is, lawyers know how to follow the rules, procedures, regulations etc. You’re honestly just wasting your and the courts time even if you win.
While peeing, a man who called himself the bar owner came into the women’s restroom and looked over Strobel’s stall.
This is the crime.
Gonna guess not having a stall is against ADA laws also. Sounds like that bar needs to go.
There was a stall. He looked over it.
It seems there was a stall in the women’s restroom, but not the men’s
…where would men poop if no stall? Poo urinal?
Edit: read more myself, and now my question is towards the establishment instead. What the fuck?
With the right attitude, the whole world can be your toilet.
I think the toilet was just exposed or it was a single use room.
If the toilet was exposed, that’s fuuuucked
If it was a single use toilet, they wouldn’t have to find a new toilet :c
Yeah there appears to be some sketchy stuff going on there.
I already read this story yesterday. The title here is wrong in two ways:
- He used the women’s restroom after trying the men’s and finding there were no stalls, only urinals. The motivation was not the law, but necessity.
- South Carolina doesn’t even have one of those shitty laws (yet)
Regarding (1), he also got verbal permission from the bartender before entering the women’s restroom
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Shitting in the urinal is generally frowned upon, or he might not have a stand-to-pee device.
Sits to pee because lacking equipment.
For poopin, one would assume
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They wouldn’t be, I don’t know American laws but I’d say they do not have proper washroom facilities.
Also as other have said, they may not have a penis, nor shewee handy.
No penis
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A men’s bathroom without stalls? How is this even a thing? Where are they supposed to poop in that establishment?
I was at a bar once that the men’s room on the upper floor only had urinals. If you wanted to shit or piss in some privacy, you had to go to the bathroom on the lower floor.
A poorinal
The urinal, of course.
Fellas, is it gay to poop while sitting down?
If god didn’t want my buttcheeks poopy, then why did he make them hairy?
That is the absolute best use of that meme I’ve ever seen. Golf clap.
Obrigado
MAGAts are trying to make it unlivable for people.
They’re making it unlivable for themselves, but instead of fixing the problem, they’re just making things as bad as possible for the scapegoats.
Leave it to catch 22’s to deny rights.
That is the general goal yes.
