Those American bathroom stall gaps are wild.
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.
Oh it's not just that, though that is perhaps part of it and is often the excuse. I think it goes deeper and way more psycho-sexual than that.
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'd literally rather my kid start smoking then have some adult watch them take a shit.
Hell, kid might start smoking to deal with poop anxiety it creates. Nicotine literally helps with constipation. Lol
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.
The restroom narrative is fucking insane.
I was sexually assaulted as a teenage girl, by another teenage girl in a restroom in high school.
Sexual predators are going to be predators. They don’t care about the rules.
For the sake of argument, let's say there is a hypothetical trans person who wants to assault someone in a bathroom. The whole argument assumes that people who don't respect "you can't assault people" laws will respect "you can't enter that room" laws. They're already planning a much more serious crime! They'll just ignore both laws! So dumb.
Why would a rapist pretend to be a trans woman in a culture that treats rapists better than trans women?
I still use the men's room because I am early in transition and my tits aren't big enough yet. I'm basically waiting for the first man to see me and tell me I'm in the wrong place, then I will know I can probably use the ladies'
Good luck on your journey, fellow human. 🏳️⚧️
I'm legit excited for you. That's gonna be such a great moment!
You go girl!
To whichever restroom is least likely to end in a confrontation with some lunatic republican trying to 'protect' their perceived property.
or be like f1nn and confuse the fuck out of them lmao
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHwjhu7hthH/
I swear, transphobes will claim all trans people care about are mutilating genitals while the phobes run around screaming at people demanding to know what's in their pants, regardless of whether they're a minor or not.
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 want to kill people. With a guillotine.
Every accusation is a confession.
Maybe in the USA. In Québec (Canada), I believe that the general public is just about ready to accept one big bathroom for everyone. Stop gender segregation. Also, build the bathroom better. Make the stalls be tiny rooms instead, with a real door.
I love unisex toilets because I prefer cubicles and men only ones always end up having 20 urinals to 2 stalls so there's always a huge queue for the stall and it always ends up being in the worst state you can imagine
Montrealer here. Off the top of my head I know at least 5 women who would definitely NOT be okay with bathrooms for everyone. And I don't blame them. some men are creeps or dangerous and those kinds of men would LOVE to be able to hang out in the same bathrooms women use.
Every accusation is a confession.
