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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Toilets again - desire for privacy is 'transphobic' apparently

82 replies

Oldstyle · 29/05/2019 14:18

UCLA students complaining about the proposed new mixed-sex loos because:
“Specifically the floor-to-ceiling dividers for all-gender restrooms, they [the University] want them to be much … longer than for men’s and women’s restroom, and we take this as a sign of transphobia because … this basically comes out of a want for privacy and an all-gender restroom, and that want for privacy comes from a fear of trans and nonbinary people” said a student spokesperson.
Might be 'over there' right now but sure as eggs is non-binary eggs, it'll be here too before long...
dailybruin.com/2019/05/28/students-voice-concerns-about-bathroom-policy-security-camera-monitoring/

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AlwaysComingHome · 29/05/2019 14:23

I think we need a third set of toilets; not for transfolk (who should be in the toilets appropriate for their sex), but for total fuckwits like this.

GCAcademic · 29/05/2019 14:23

There was a conference over here a while back about toilets, and some academics were arguing that privacy is a social construct and that we need to move beyond this. Try telling that to girls in rural India who risk being gang-raped and murdered when they go to the toilet.

MangoesAreMyFavourite · 29/05/2019 14:24

Are these people absolutely crazy? I think I've heard it all, then something more batshit comes along.

So what's next? I walk along naked in the streets to prove I don't think all men are perverts?

It follows, doesn't it? Why stop at toilets?
Please tell me I'm the one who is crazy.

QOFE · 29/05/2019 14:25

I fear men however they identify.

No fear here of trans men or non binary female people Hmm

Kedgeree · 29/05/2019 14:30

I think I read somewhere (maybe even on here) a link to some piece by a paedo where they say that breaking down of personal privacy in public spaces e.g. toilets is an important step towards normalising public nudity, which is a step towards normalising public sex or sexual behaviours, which is step towards normalising sex with children? Something along those lines anyway. Terrifying.

justju · 29/05/2019 14:30

God they're supposed to be intelligent! It frustrates me no end!

Why do they think loos have doors in the first place?

Why on earth would anyone complain about more privacy?

littlbrowndog · 29/05/2019 14:32

Well we know tha5 some men like taking video and pics of women and girls peeing. For some weird fetish

That is just one good reason. Ther3 are others

Maybe them students like doing that

Very suspect

ThePurportedDoctoress · 29/05/2019 14:33

Are they taking the piss?
How fucking fragile do you have to be to find transphobia in the length of a cubicle wall?

Goosefoot · 29/05/2019 14:33

I think we need a third set of toilets; not for transfolk (who should be in the toilets appropriate for their sex), but for total fuckwits like this.

I wonder what the symbol on that door would look like?

Kedgeree · 29/05/2019 14:39

The symbol would be wearing a dunce's hat.

littlbrowndog · 29/05/2019 14:39

🎻

For the sad fuckers

justju · 29/05/2019 14:39

Also if males who identify as female can't go into the men's toilets because of the horrendous abuse and rape threats they'll face (isn't that one of the things they usually say?), then surely they wouldn't want to be exposed to those men here either?

AlwaysComingHome · 29/05/2019 14:43

‘Social construct’ isn’t an argument against something. The law is a social construct. Economics are a social construct. The English language is a social construct.

Everything that sets us apart from the other animals is a social construct. Being true only by virtue of us agreeing it is true does not invalidate it.

Being able to make something true by consensus (that a day is composed of 24 ‘hours’; that money can be exchanged for goods and services; that contracts should be honoured and laws should not be broken; that we are entitled to private as well as public lives) constitutes civilisation.

MenuPlant · 29/05/2019 14:45

Try telling that to girls and women in the UK who run the gauntlet of pervy weirdos.

Mixed sex communal changing was where overwhelming proportion of sex offences Inc voyeurism happened ieisure facilities.

Privacy is a social construct? Fuck off...

Someone was arguing the other day somewhere that if only women would be more relaxed about taking their clothes off in front of men, men wouldn't be so pervy at us and assault us and so on. Presumably the same goes for kids.

jay55 · 29/05/2019 14:51

US toilets often have a massive gap between the door and the frame. I've often had accidental embarrassing eye contacts with someone on the loo as I check the lock status.
I bet staff were happy to have an excuse to get properly fitted doors.
I really, really feel for the students and staff caught up in this woke fuckwittery.

stillathing · 29/05/2019 14:54

Dear Males,

Please stop the raping, murdering, assaulting, harassing, bias, greed, coercive and financial control etc. Please recognise the humanity of women and the vulnerability of children. Give me a shout when you're done and I'd be delighted to attend your fascinating lecture on how we can queer society.

Yours not especially hopefully

Woman

Outofinspiration · 29/05/2019 15:05

The push for mixed sex toilets that has come out of this whole thing suggests to me that this issue has absolutely fuck all to do with poor vulnerable transwomen being worried about being beaten up in the loo and everything to do with encroaching on women's space and privacy.

MenuPlant · 29/05/2019 15:10

'US toilets often have a massive gap between the door and the frame'

I have heard this, I wonder why it is.

No wonder the toilet thing is such a hot topic if you can see straight into them.

Mind you there was a plan the other day on here for new toilets in some civil service type building. Mixed sex, the height of the cubicles meant the men standing next to them at the urinal could see straight over the top :/

MenuPlant · 29/05/2019 15:11

Yes this is not about safety at all it's about putting women girls on the back foot, removing our comfort.

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 29/05/2019 15:18

Those UCLA students are perhaps so sheltered that they're not aware of the behaviour of predatory men in mixed sex facilities. They probably don't understand that it doesn't matter how those men identify as transition doesn't change their male pattern offending.

The only person in my entire extended family who isn't gender critical is my privately educated DN currently studying at Oxbridge. My DB tears his hair out. Says if a TW plays for the other side in any of her team sports she'll know all about it.

justju · 29/05/2019 15:20

They also don't have to stay there long. It's not going to be their problem long-term so they can virtue-signal about it.

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 29/05/2019 15:24

Well, if these UCLA students are so unconcerned about privacy, then they can have half a dozen buckets in the car park marked Gender Neutral. They can lead by example.

GCAcademic · 29/05/2019 15:29

The only person in my entire extended family who isn't gender critical is my privately educated DN currently studying at Oxbridge

I work in a fairly prestigious university and was chatting about this with a GC academic at the post-1992 down the road. Transactivism has yet to rear its head at her university, whereas it's already swept through and eradicated every single-sex space at my workplace.

MenuPlant · 29/05/2019 15:38

'Those UCLA students are perhaps so sheltered that they're not aware of the behaviour of predatory men'

This is what I don't get. I had a middle class upbringing and was aware of what men were like pretty much as soon as puberty was well underway. Me and my friends got stuff shouted at us, followed. One had a man try to get her on a side street. One had a bus driver so to see her tits when she was 13. We were variously wanked at. When I was younger films like porkies and TV like Benny Hill made it obvious strandard and normal that men would try to spy on women given half a chance.

I don't see how it's possible that they don't know what men can be like. I think it's cognitive dissonance, surely. You get women bemoaning rape, sexual assault, male violence then in the same breath saying twaw and any man who says I'm a woman should be in with the women in prisons, secure hosps, etc etc

nauticant · 29/05/2019 15:54

When I was younger films like porkies and TV like Benny Hill made it obvious strandard and normal that men would try to spy on women given half a chance.

At least Benny Hill was honest. Compared to the gaslighting we're seeing nowadays, Benny Hill is beginning to look like a valid gender critical assessment of the current problem.

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