I don’t blame people for living in worlds of stereotyped appearances and behaviors. But when they act upon others based upon these stereotypes, they are still responsible for their own words and actions. If a person confronts me in daily life, I need to deal with them personally, since I can’t immediately address the situation with whatever parents, media, churches, schools may have influenced their thinking.
Also, “traditional” is a hugely loaded word, as there are many very different traditions out there. The US has a real problem with claiming to be a “melting pot” that somehow coincidentally assimilates everybody into a Western European framework. It sucks to be a country based upon diversity when the populace are conditioned to be too immature and frightened to handle it.
Being “identified” with regards to ones gender is worlds away from being confronted about it. By the same token, people are certainly free to identify and judge in their own minds if they find purpose in it, but they need to have the courtesy of knowing that this is their own personal problem, So they should not be surprised if strangers get upset by being confronted with others insecurities while trying to use a restroom.
You’ve got it backwards. If someone identifies as a woman, but you’ve decided how they dress and wear their hair means that you know better than they do, then you’re the one who is wrong.
The fact that you added white/black and dog/cat as examples shows that you don’t actually respect human beings enough to believe they know who they are. Instead, you think they’re cats pretending to be dogs.
Sink! I used a lot of these over the years. They are usually in areas where mechanics work, and need to was up to their biceps. The thing in the center is a powder soap dispenser and the foot pedal is so you don’t get grease from your hands on the controls.
If you were not sure, the fact that there is usually a mirror behind it should remove all doubt. No one wants that view.
My personal “not conforming to societal norms” was having the temerity to grow to a height of 175cm, which apparently is too tall to be the cis woman that I am.
Besides the height, I’ve always been a perfectly girlish girl, but if I had a dime for every time I’ve been called masculine or asked if I’m a trans woman, I could buy my own state and enact my own damn washroom laws.
If you’re going to play the “societal norm” card, you’d better appreciate just how freaking narrow those norms are.
We’re actually doing a sociology presentation tomorrow focusing on Language and Gender Policing. The other members are cisfemales, whereas I usually present as male, but am genderqueer. When we were discussing what to include to explain gender policing, keeping in mind this is only a 100 level class, one of the other team members suggested colors since many people do have this concept that only certain people should wear certain colors. (Although of course what those colors are seem to vary so much …)
She also suggested that they wear blue and I wear something pink for the presentation. Done!
Oh, I knew it. They are also popular in gyms. I just wanted to make it clear that the men’s restroom is a place of confusing appliances. Women may walk in and see all sorts of things to turn them around and make them leave because it isn’t a “women’s room”. Men can never be sure what they are walking into when we enter a “men’s restroom”
We may have a trough, a hole in the floor, a sink trough, an australian urinal, etc. We just basically work with what they give us.
In physics there’s absolute zero which makes me wonder if there’s such a thing as absolute stupid. And of course every time I think we’ve hit it something like this sets the limit even lower.
Although we should have seen this coming. The same people who worry about predators in bathrooms have become predators in bathrooms.
I am truly terrified to find out. Just when I think certain members of the species can’t possibly get any more moronic, someone goes and proves me wrong.
I’m just waiting for someone to get shot behind all this foolishness; it’s almost inevitable, given how our society seems utterly determined to double down on ‘the stupid’… but I sincerely hope that its people like the self righteous members of the AFA that are on the receiving end, and not some poor innocent schmuck who’s just trying to relieve him or herself.
It’s because of stupid stunts like the AFA’s that I have to stand guard outside of restrooms for my friends even in empty buildings. And I don’t mind standing guard but what bothers me is my friends can’t feel safe.
