• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    39·
    10 months ago

    It’s funny, but it’s also dark as living fuck.

    It shows right out in the open exactly what will happen with all this nonsense about gendered bathrooms.

    These people cannot tell someones gender simply based on outward looks alone.

    This will hurt countless cisgender women who will be abused for not being “feminine enough” to be in a “women’s bathroom.” There will be demands to show genitals, and fights, and so on. It’s fucking horrible.

    Trans-men will mostly continue to get ignored in bathrooms, but some will not and will be just as abused, if not moreso by violent cismen ganging up on them.

    Finally, the vast majority of toilets in the USA are already gender neutral. The bathroom in your home or apartment? Gender neutral. The bathroom at your crappy job at a Domino’s in a strip mall? One gender neutral bathroom.

    The only places that have large, separated bathrooms are giant buildings which house government or corporations. Most buildings just have one or two gender neutral bathrooms for everyone to share, and somehow, it’s never been a problem. Until now.

    EDIT: I realized I left out transwomen because in my mind it’s a given that they’ll be the receiving end of the majority of the abuse from all this. I just want to make sure no one thinks I care more about how this will affect cisgender women. Nope, this issue affects transwomen first and most of all, but this example shows how it will hurt ciswomen as well.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      This will hurt countless cisgender women who will be abused for not being “feminine enough” to be in a “women’s bathroom.” There will be demands to show genitals, and fights, and so on. It’s fucking horrible.

      Yep. We saw this very thing parodied (right word maybe?) in 2004 in the Venture Bros. simply because Dr. Girlfriend had a deep voice. If it made its way into a cartoon then it would have been a common enough occurrence or worry in the real world. Putting more onus on gendered bathrooms will only exacerbate this very thing for everyone.