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Man Argues That Women Have No Right to Privacy in Changing Rooms

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UtopiaPlanitia · 04/11/2024 21:57

A few months ago a teacher filmed a great conversation with his student, debating whether or not JK Rowling is transphobic, and it was very enlightening. He has a new video up where he discusses women's rights with a man who is a Democrat voter.

I swear to god that 'Democrat' man goes all around the houses and overcomplicates the issues to get out of saying that males shouldn't be allowed to use women's spaces or to compete in women's sports.

It's almost like this man doesn't see women as beings worthy of respect.

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UtopiaPlanitia · 07/11/2024 18:53

ElizaMulvil · 07/11/2024 17:46

Not all left wingers subscribe to this nonsense and not all left political parties. The Communist Party e.g. does definitely not.

Agreed; the Communist Party in the UK is very much materialist feminist and supports the women in these fights for protecting rights.

But I don’t know where the American equivalent of our Communist Party stands on this issue (from what I’ve seen of very Leftwing socialist voters in the US they are even more into identity politics and queer theory) and it’s this sexist attitude of Americans Left that the video is addressing.

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UtopiaPlanitia · 07/11/2024 18:58

illinivich · 07/11/2024 17:20

I've just finished listening to andrew gold interview blair white.

They both concluded that its the straight men who look like their mothers who cause the problem, not the gay men who pass. White said that he'd use the womens toilet because he could go in unnoticed.

So on the surface, white understands the risk of assault, but seemed totally oblivious to his role in any deception, to the fact that he is removing women only spaces for his own convenience. And crucially, just because he knows he doesn't get any sexual thrill from seeing and being seen by women and girls, doesn't consider how women and girls feel.

I thought it was a similar vibe, to this interview, to be honest. Totally disregarding womens and girls, and focusing on the wants of the men.

(I dont recommend listening, they say nothing new. But maybe im salty because i look like someone's mother so fail Gold's test)

Sadly, Blair White supports women only up to the point where what he wants to do is hampered by women’s rights - in this stance, he’s no different to various ‘rational trans’ commentators we have here in the UK who publicly state that they support women’s single-sex spaces but it always turns out that they want an exception to enter women’s spaces because they’re ‘Not Like Other Trans’.

Edited to add that Andrew Gold is no different to other pundits like Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan who all seem to believe that because, to them, White looks sufficiently like a woman then White should be allowed to access women’s spaces - they’re not thinking about the effect it has on women to have men in their spaces and they’re not thinking that White is the wedge in the door that other men will use to gain access to women’s spaces and to the definition of woman.

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TooBigForMyBoots · 07/11/2024 19:03

MRAs always think they have the right to walk in on women in dressing rooms. Ones like this guy and ones like Donald Trump.

Womens dignity, autonomy and privacy means nothing to them.

Grammarnut · 08/11/2024 15:32

Tiredofthisnonsense · 05/11/2024 16:38

What you're referring to is 'positive liberty' (freedom to) and negative liberty (freedom from). The most well known elucidation of this is Isaiah Berlin's 'Two Concepts of Liberty' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwoConceptsofLiberty) although I don't think he came up with it originally.

I disagree that American culture is based on positive liberty. Libertarianism, rugged individualism, and 'don't tread on me' are all manifestations of negative liberty.

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I think US liberty is indeed positive freedom, the freedom 'to do/act' as you wish. Rugged individualism is a symptom of that view point as is the demand that you don't 'tread on me'. Negative freedoms are more to do with not being subject to harms: negative freedoms are from hunger, idleness, want, disease, ignorance etc (sometimes called the five freedoms) and abuse. This idea of freedom seems mostly absent in US libertarianism. It's more freedom to dine at the Ritz (if you can afford to) rather than freedom from hunger.

YellowRoom · 08/11/2024 16:11

Unbelievable to hear him defend a man exposing his penis to a child.

TheAutopsyOfMNCorpus · 08/11/2024 16:26

YellowRoom · 08/11/2024 16:11

Unbelievable to hear him defend a man exposing his penis to a child.

People who believe in gender identity ideology or defend it have conveniently 'forgotten' that men who crossdress and go into womens' single sex spaces are not there for good and pure reasons.

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TheAutopsyOfMNCorpus · 08/11/2024 16:27

Part 2.

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Catsmere · 09/11/2024 02:35

AshLeaf · 05/11/2024 13:15

I only watched half the clip (as others said, great clip, but far too frustrating!) and all the focus was on a man exposing himself in a locker room. Maybe it was covered later, but no mention was made that the mother in question might not be too keen to get naked herself, or strip her child while an unknown male was watching. Why is this so hard to understand?

It's that old saying - right wing men see women as private property, left wing men see women as public property.

Catsmere · 09/11/2024 02:41

@TheAutopsyOfMNCorpus thank you, that lays it out so clearly.

quixote9 · 09/11/2024 18:50

@IwantToRetire "the man being questioned by the teacher is:

  • totally unable to understand that women might have rights - his brain just freezes - he just cant grasp that as being a fact
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"this isn't always about genuine sympathy or empathy for trans people. This is about have the believe that women have no value, they have no rights, they lack logic, and should be ignored or if they persist, ridiculed."

Exactly that. Trying to reason (we're always told to calmly reason with people like that) with someone who understands women as a form of dogs or, in some cases, livestock, is not going to work.

Women are service animals in their world. If those people were capable of more than motivated reasoning, they never would have fallen into such a massive category error in the first place.

(Enough social power for women - money, enforced laws for women's rights - makes those people irrelevant eventually, but you'll notice that's what they really really really try to prevent.)

Balloonhearts · 09/11/2024 18:58

They seem to go silent when you ask them if they would be happy for these transwomen to see their own wife and small daughter naked and to expose 'her'self to them.

I had a discussion with one on reddit who couldn't actually argue with the very polite way I phrased it or the point I was making, demanding proof of the study statistics I was quoting and when given it, eventually pretended to be leaving on holiday to get out of the conversation 😂

UtopiaPlanitia · 12/11/2024 00:09

Balloonhearts · 09/11/2024 18:58

They seem to go silent when you ask them if they would be happy for these transwomen to see their own wife and small daughter naked and to expose 'her'self to them.

I had a discussion with one on reddit who couldn't actually argue with the very polite way I phrased it or the point I was making, demanding proof of the study statistics I was quoting and when given it, eventually pretended to be leaving on holiday to get out of the conversation 😂

That must have been tiresome for you but at least other people on the subreddit would have been watching the discussion so you raised thoughts in other people's minds.

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Grammarnut · 12/11/2024 09:23

IwantToRetire · 05/11/2024 01:25

I haven't had time to listen all the way through but it seems clear that the man being questioned by the teacher is:

  • totally unable to understand that women might have rights - his brain just freezes - he just cant grasp that as being a fact
  • has just accepted the dogma that you can change sex and that in doing that you gain rights over others
  • an absolute example of people who just go along with what they think is the popular / most applauded view - like the pupil who thought JKR was evil

Unfortunately those who you would like to think would be challenged to see this dismal display of male stupidity will not doubt come up with some arguement about how the teacher has manipulated him.

Talk about the emporer's new clothes. Although that story has the fairy tale ending that once someone points out the mass delusion everyone goes, of course how silly of us. Whereas we know in real life the more you point out the flaws in the trans arguement the more you make yourself the most evil, unkind, right wing reactionary picking on the most discriminated group in the world.

The very fact that these videos haven't really impinged on the public consciousness illustrates that most are as a point of principle unable to admit that they could ever have been wrong, could ever have been coopted into believing something impossible.

And, as I ofthen say, this isn't always about genuine sympathy or empathy for trans people. This is about have the believe that women have no value, they have no rights, they lack logic, and should be ignored or if they persist, ridiculed.

So depressing.

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Exactly!

UtopiaPlanitia · 12/11/2024 16:36

And, as I ofthen say, this isn't always about genuine sympathy or empathy for trans people. This is about have the believe that women have no value, they have no rights, they lack logic, and should be ignored or if they persist, ridiculed.

@IwantToRetire your description here is a perfect encapsulation of men like Alaistair Campbell: his behaviour this week, upon learning that voters do not agree with gender identity ideology, has been exemplary ‘Righteous Man’ & professional management class comportment. He’s going to give himself a scoffing injury if he continues to scoff at women’s concerns and objections this intensely.

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theilltemperedqueenofspacetime · 12/11/2024 16:40

UtopiaPlanitia · 12/11/2024 16:36

And, as I ofthen say, this isn't always about genuine sympathy or empathy for trans people. This is about have the believe that women have no value, they have no rights, they lack logic, and should be ignored or if they persist, ridiculed.

@IwantToRetire your description here is a perfect encapsulation of men like Alaistair Campbell: his behaviour this week, upon learning that voters do not agree with gender identity ideology, has been exemplary ‘Righteous Man’ & professional management class comportment. He’s going to give himself a scoffing injury if he continues to scoff at women’s concerns and objections this intensely.

a scoffing injury

🤣🤣🤣

Balloonhearts · 12/11/2024 22:00

UtopiaPlanitia · 12/11/2024 00:09

That must have been tiresome for you but at least other people on the subreddit would have been watching the discussion so you raised thoughts in other people's minds.

Sadly it was via PM. He/She was a moderator and would not allow discussion on the main board. Says it all really doesn't it?

Catsmere · 12/11/2024 22:19

Standard for Reddit. It's a misogynistic cesspit. Mainly it's useful for seeing auto ginny files mask-off.

UtopiaPlanitia · 13/11/2024 14:04

Balloonhearts · 12/11/2024 22:00

Sadly it was via PM. He/She was a moderator and would not allow discussion on the main board. Says it all really doesn't it?

I know this isn’t an original sentiment to express but bloody hell, Reddit is the pits when it comes to women’s rights.

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Balloonhearts · 13/11/2024 15:08

Apparently it's transphobic to say that you don't support trans ideology as it goes against your personal beliefs.

UtopiaPlanitia · 13/11/2024 15:31

When it comes to the OTT beliefs of certain sections of Reddit this meme is applicable:

https://img.memegenerator.net/instances/600x600/85496458.jpg

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