It’s solid advice to listen to what they say, because they are actually confessing what they want to do.
“If we defind the police people will go around killing everyone they want”
… Uh … How many people do you WANT to kill? Because my number is 0…
And of course this is another clear example.
“They are trying to creep on young girls”
Uh… Why do you’re state make it legal to touch children’s genitals if you’re proving their gender and force people to undress for you to use the bathroom???
A more personal one:
“They are forcing their lifestyle on us!!!”
Uh… Is it okay with you guys if I’m asexual?
“No! That asexual means your gay and gay people are child molesters. So stop being asexual”
Technically my number is not 0. And the police really only protect the small percentage of people in this world that deserve the guillotine. So, in a way they’re right about that one. Just not in the way they think they are.
I understand the guillotine comments. Let me you ask you this if I was magic and offered you a choice
You could execute these people and it would be legal
Or you could change the things they did.
Which would you prefer?
Depends on what you mean by “change things they did”.
If that was the case they wouldn’t be those people anymore.
Capitalism isnt failing because of some moral failure of the wealthy. It’s failing because of its contradictions.
The guillotine is simply a symbol of revolution. Revolution does not require violence if the ruling class gives up it’s power. But, historically, they never have. And the Capitalist class will not either. So violence is necessary in response to the state structures of violence.
So, I guess my point is that I’m not saying I want to kill capitalist. But, historically, the ruling class does not want to give up their class position and so violence is required to destroy the structures that uphold their class position.
Every accusation is a confession.
Those American bathroom stall gaps are wild.
We’re lucky they even have doors, half the schools I went to in conservative towns ripped them off to ‘keep kids from smoking’ in the bathrooms.
I think they just have a fetish for watching people shit.
I think American stalls are designed that way specifically to make them less private in the hopes it will keep people from boning or doing drugs in them. Just another facet of American life made worse with puritanical/punitive culture.
You’d think after a lifetime of not actually working in that regard we’d just use a normal fucking door. 🤷🏻♂️
Also, FunFact: if you enter a bathroom in the US and the lighting is really blue: that literally is to stop drug use. Veins are blue, and if the lighting is blue you can’t see them well enough to shoot up.
Then there must be wild drug-fueled orgies happening at Buc-ee’s, but nobody has ever invited me to join.
The blue light also doesn’t work. Junkies figured out how to turn on the cell phone flash light.
Call it puritanical but why would you want people banging and shooting up in the washroom?
That’s not the point. If someone is gonna fuck or shoot up in the bathroom they’re going to. The little perv gap we have isn’t gonna change that.
Puritan ideas themselves aren’t really about helping people to be more “pure”. They’re about subjugation, control, and maintaining a patriarchal structure.
I’ve been formulating an essay for a long time now about how American bathroom design - At least men’s rooms, as I’m a man - Is proto-fascist homoerotic cultural enforcement, how it relates to the butt-slapping genital pranks of cis sports locker rooms or the blackmail-generating hazing of fraternal societies, and the extremely suspect fact that in our individualized and privatized society stripped bare of spaces for intimate social interaction, the one place that we are in fact forced to interact on an intimate and revealing level is also the one spot that is supposed to be the most private and individual. I also want to explore how it possibly relates to circumcision, in that both things seem to be the society asserting the ownership of one’s gender in a coercive fashion, as if to lock the individual into their role in the society and remind them of that fact every time they’d seek to be alone with themselves.
American bathrooms are an insane psychological knot.
Every accusation is a confession.
Do transphobes know of the existence of manly, burly trans men? One of those muscular, bearded dudes walks into a woman’s room because it’s their “birth assigned” bathroom and they would lose their shit
Hey, some of us are fat Reddit neckbeards too. Not all trans men are muscle-y man hunks.
I think I’m supposed to use the women’s restroom? Tbh, not sure if my drivers license even counts anymore. Might as well dig out the fedora and some Pepe the frog shirts, if they’re going to make me piss in the women’s, I’ll “milady” every female in sight.
For clarity, I am going to use man/woman in reference to gender and male/female in reference to sex.
Always said this is exactly the way to protest those laws. Get the burliest, most masculine trans men you can find and engage in malicious compliance.
The conservatives and the TERFs are totally aligned on this one - and their thinking boils down to a few points:
- You cannot change your sex.
- Male persons are evil, dangerous predators.
- Predators will do whatever they need to to get better access to prey.
- Sex-segregated spaces are segregated by sex, not gender and exist in order to protect female persons from predators by limiting access to them by male persons while in a vulnerable position.
…and that’s really it. You might notice that trans men are totally irrelevant to all of that, since they only really care about women’s spaces. To them a trans man using the men’s room is only putting themself at risk and doing so by their own choice, while a trans woman is endangering the cis women in the space against their will by existing.
I mean dude, love the energy but this isn’t a protest to those laws… that’s just going out for enough time in public to need to use a public restroom as a trans man.
Trans men getting arrested by police for ‘causing a disturbance’ by being forced to use the women’s bathroom isn’t a bug, it’s a transphobic feature. They want to make being trans as uncomfortable as possible because they think that if they can ratchet up the discomfort level less people will attempt to transition. Trans men who pass on average are massively uncomfortable using the ladies room because it’s a great way to get arrested by cops, hastled by security, banned from private property, assaulted by women, yelled at and abused because everyone assumes you are a cis male creep, they want you to suffer for being trans or they just don’t care.
Like trans women are generally the forefront of the conversation but when it comes to trans men this isn’t “malicious compliance.” it’s either compliance compliance or stealthily breaking the law and hoping nobody notices. The trans deterrent system is operating as intended.
