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Cocks and Vaginas

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ChaosAndPiss · 23/02/2018 22:33

AIBU to think we should just change toilets and changing rooms from male and female to just Cocks and Vaginas (or vulvas if you want)

No self identifying bollocks. If you have a dick you go in there. If you don't you go in there. Simple.

We can remove the lady in a dress picture and the man picture and just put pictures of genitals on the doors instead Grin

this is all said in a joking manner. Mostly.

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beepthemeep · 26/02/2018 12:13

No, xulishes, what you've demonstrated is that you have zero concerns for women and their concerns. I find your posts rather sickening, TBH.

But hey. So long as your arms are long enough to pat yourself on the back whilst chucking women under the bus, you carry on feeling good about yourself.

KatherinaMinola · 26/02/2018 12:14

Except you haven't presented any reasonable concerns about toilets.

Oh goodness me, I thought that was obvious: sexual assault.

Xulishesthepilot · 26/02/2018 12:17

No, xulishes, what you've demonstrated is that you have zero concerns for women and their concerns. I find your posts rather sickening, TBH.

You're sickened by your own poor understanding I'm afraid.

Oh goodness me, I thought that was obvious: sexual assault.

In that case please, I ask you once again, in what way do you think sexual assaults in toilets would be facilitated by segregation by gender rather than sex? Very simple question, I invite anyone to answer. Because you are not showing sexual assault is more likely!

hereyougosuckmyassforensics · 26/02/2018 12:24

I swear the folk on this site spend more time thinking about other people's genitals than anything else.

beepthemeep · 26/02/2018 12:28

It's not just this thread, xulishes. You're always at it. You're entitled to your opinion but I find the agenda you push to be disturbing.

If you really can't see that publicising the fact that anyone can say they are now a woman and can use women's toilets will make it more likely that it will be abused and therefore women will be put at risk, so be it. All women and girls had better just hope you're right, eh?

KatherinaMinola · 26/02/2018 12:29

In that case please, I ask you once again, in what way do you think sexual assaults in toilets would be facilitated by segregation by gender rather than sex? Very simple question, I invite anyone to answer. Because you are not showing sexual assault is more likely!

  1. Men commit sexual assaults (NAM, etc).

  2. Segregating toilets by sex means that men cannot go into female toilets (and are likely to be stopped if they try).

  3. Segregating toilets by gender, otoh or saying "hey, use whichever one you feel like using" means that men can go into spaces where women are vulnerable (in this case toilets).

KatherinaMinola · 26/02/2018 12:30

To put it even more bluntly: wherever men are not, sexual assault is less likely.

Xulishesthepilot · 26/02/2018 12:37

Katherina I appreciate the effort, but you're not proving what you think you are.

2) Segregating toilets by sex means that men cannot go into female toilets (and are likely to be stopped if they try).

It does not mean men can't go into female toilets, it means that in order to get into female toilets they have to claim to be female. Which they can do whilst still looking like men by saying they're female to male transgender. Which is what they would say when questioned.

3) Segregating toilets by gender, otoh or saying "hey, use whichever one you feel like using" means that men can go into spaces where women are vulnerable (in this case toilets).

So just the same as above" in order to access women's toilets men need simply say they identify as women. Which is exactly the same^ as saying they ARE biological women above - exactly the same! You can't stop them in either scenario!

But what you can do is report absolutely anyone at all behaving inappropriately in public toilets.

beep I'm afraid I can't increase your intelligence sufficiently to make this interaction worthwhile.

KatherinaMinola · 26/02/2018 12:42

2) Segregating toilets by sex means that men cannot go into female toilets (and are likely to be stopped if they try).

It does not mean men can't go into female toilets, it means that in order to get into female toilets they have to claim to be female. Which they can do whilst still looking like men by saying they're female to male transgender. Which is what they would say when questioned.

I think you are confusing sex and gender. I'm suggesting that toilets are segregated by sex. So if you are a biological male, it doesn't matter whether you are MTF, you still use the male toilet.

KatherinaMinola · 26/02/2018 12:43

Oh I see, you said FTM. But easily disproved anyway.

Xulishesthepilot · 26/02/2018 12:47

Oh I see, you said FTM. But easily disproved anyway.

How? HOW?? Short of genital or genetic testing at the door of every public loos, how are you suggesting this would be easier to prove or disprove than someone's gender identity when it comes to toilets?

KatherinaMinola · 26/02/2018 12:50

Really, I think most people can tell the difference between a FTM (who mostly look like butch lesbians) and a 6' bloke. I know I can.

KatherinaMinola · 26/02/2018 12:50

In terms of proof (if it came to an arrest), not difficult.

beepthemeep · 26/02/2018 12:55

Xulishes - well no. As your intelligence seems to be on par with that of a snail wearing blinkers, that's hardly surprising. Slither on.

HangtheblessedDJ · 26/02/2018 12:57

Your hate is ruining what used to be a parenting site. Go elsewhere.

hereyougosuckmyassforensics · 26/02/2018 12:59

@HangtheblessedDJ they might as well change the name to transnet since that's all that ever gets fucking talked about these days

Xulishesthepilot · 26/02/2018 12:59

I bet you aren't as good at it as you think you are Katherina. There was a thread on AIBU not long ago which touched on this; I really don't think the line "I can tell the difference" will wash. It doesn't wash.

And an arrest? You can't be arrested for being in the wrong toilet! If you do something wrong you can be arrested for that, penis or not, but noone will be getting arrested and having a penis check if they haven't done anything wrong.

So here we are, back at the start, saying men who would lie to get into ladies' loos would have equal opportunity to do so were they segregated by sex or gender. So women are safer in neither scenario, but transpeople would be more comfortable with gender. That's the bottom line.

Xulishesthepilot · 26/02/2018 13:01

I've been sucked in hang and here, but I do agree.

Jaygee61 · 26/02/2018 13:05

Really, I think most people can tell the difference between a FTM (who mostly look like butch lesbians) and a 6' bloke. I know I can.

If you think most FTM look like butch lesbians you’d be wrong. A lot of them look like men.

KatherinaMinola · 26/02/2018 13:15

And an arrest? You can't be arrested for being in the wrong toilet!

If toilets are segregated by sex and a man comes in and refuses to leave (when the management is called etc) and still refuses to leave when the police are called then it might.

I know (and have known) a fair few MTF and FTM and I'm pretty good at telling. But of course there will be people who pass so completely that you won't necessarily notice in a casual meeting.

Either way, the 5'6 8.5 stone person with a beard generally isn't as threatening as the 6'2 13 stone one.

Xulishesthepilot · 26/02/2018 13:25

If toilets are segregated by sex and a man comes in and refuses to leave (when the management is called etc) and still refuses to leave when the police are called then it might.

What has this niche scenario got to do with the broader issue? Noone is going to be checking bits before letting people into loos. Women are no more or less vulnerable to lying, predatory men in either sex or gender segregated loos, because in either case they could pretend to be something they're not to gain access. That being the case, the only reason to segregate by sex would be to make transgender people unconformable.

PositivelyPERF · 26/02/2018 13:26

Why oh why are people feeding it? It always comes on to try to derail threads.

KatherinaMinola · 26/02/2018 13:29

It is easier to differentiate between sexes than between genders, as I've said repeatedly.

I think women are more vulnerable in mixed facilities, and I think mixed facilities are more open to abuse.

Xulishesthepilot · 26/02/2018 13:33

Who said anything about mixed facilities? As things stand there are men's and ladies'. Transgender people (I assume) use the toilet that best fits their gender identity. No women are any worse off, as we've just established. The end.

HangtheblessedDJ · 26/02/2018 13:35

I'm so ashamed to be complicit in the MN hate against the trans community.

Fear is used to fuel prejudice. It's like the Daily Mail.

I wonder how long I can keep reading it, I really do.

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