• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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    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.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      He was going out of his way to do everything “right” too.

      He couldn’t use the men’s, because it was a trough set up. He talked to an employee, made sure that no one was in the women’s.

      And then the cops had the gall to accuse him of being drunk and disorderly?

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        This confused me. Do men not shit? Do men not have shitters that are also perfectly servicable squatty potties? What kind of bar has a piss only bathroom?

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    I already read this story yesterday. The title here is wrong in two ways:

    1. 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.
    2. South Carolina doesn’t even have one of those shitty laws (yet)
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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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

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        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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      There have been so many cops everywhere the past fucking week where I live. I am so terrified.

      I started using men’s restrooms in 2013. No one ever cared. No one has ever cared.

      I used to travel a lot across my state - I like going to wonky small towns, dragged ex’s to places like the Spiro Mounds, wanted to explore the ghost town of Picher, had adventures with foster children in Arkansas…. but I have to stay in a city now.

      It’s like a video game map now. Hubworlds are safe, the cops will be noticed if they do something and are at least dimly aware of that. But travel could cause a random encounter, with multiple deeply unpleasant outcomes.

      That is why they do that shit. It’s stochastic terrorism. At least when I was a kid crying in terror over 9/11, the world was telling me that it was happening and it was real.

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        Well, like a video game, time to arm up and train for potential random encounters. I’d like to the see the people start winning some of these encounters. These cowards will draw back as soon as they get bit.

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          I play like Morrowind. I stay in safe areas and do low level small quests. I stick up and prepare before a journey. I try to join small factions for both missions and protections.

          A gunfight would quickly end with me dead, and there would be no way of changing the story. If I was armed, it would be easy to tell all kinds of stories about what happens. I know cops lie.

          I have zero interest in violence. Being a queer kid in Oklahoma has already resulted in experiencing physical violence at multiple points in my life. I have spent more time learning to make a punch hurt less than I have learning to throw them. Any point where retaliation has been attempted makes the punches harder, and garners me more other consequences. It’s easier to show people your gashes if they cannot reveal a bruise.

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            Dude it’s so fucked that it takes so much effort to just live as yourself. I am so sorry. :c

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          These cowards will draw back as soon as they get bit.

          No, they won’t. They will escalate. And feel righteous doing it.

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        30 years of making us listen to your dumb ass “France surrenders” jokes and you guys are just cowering now, aren’t you?

        Jesus Christ, America. DO SOMETHING.

        Nobody is coming to save you. This is your fucking fight and you aren’t showing up.

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        stay safe and stay strong. if someone asks just tell them to stop sexually assaulting you and know your state’s self defense doctrine.

        just. ugh. stay strong. i dont know what else to say. 🫂

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    USA has become a sociopathic society.
    They claim to love freedom, but regulate to harass every minority there is.
    The culture has become sick with sadistic hate.

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      Just look to one of the biggest “small government” states, Texas. They’re becoming an absolute nanny state pushing so many stupid regulations in the name of “Oh won’t someone please think of the children!”

      Freedom, my ass. They never cared about freedom.

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      It has always been like that. The only difference now is that the crazies (racist, bigots, zealots, white Christian conservatives and strait up mentally ill) have open platforms to voice their preference and ideas and people in power who agree / benefit from those points of view, have normalized it. There is no bottom at this point.

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      Freedom to hate, freedom from reasonable safety or healthcare. Freedumb.

      We’re like a bucket of idiot crabs being boiled alive, and those of us who are too poor/disabled to leave and have been screaming for the past decade are suffocating at the bottom 🫠

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        Freedumb.

        Of course my bad. 😋

        suffocating at the bottom

        I can’t even Imagine living in a society where people claim Empathy is a weakness!
        I would really like some of the mentality from the 70’s flower power days back.
        Best of luck to you. ❤️