As an aside -- transgendered people have been using their "crossover" (or whatever the correct term is) bathrooms forever, without anyone even noticing or saying so much as a peep about it, so I don't really understand what that particular fuss is all about. Enter our public schools where after much "gender issues education" (read: indoctrination) "transgender" teens now are made to "feel" like they are probably of the other gender -- and because our schools as a whole have in recent years worried far more about politics than about education, this matter has now gained traction in a really weird sort of "all stars align" way (read: how the heck did that even happen?) sprinkled with magical fairy dust -- and all of a sudden -- poof, there's an issue where before there wasn't one. I'd honestly worry less about transgendered people than about public schools over-lording it over our students and parents, consistently and with abandon over-reaching their authority, and being used as political machines, rather than educational establishments. Smoke and mirrors, cloak and dagger, abracadabra, bippity-boppity-boo. Fascinating how easily distracted we all have become. Meanwhile, in those same schools thousands of students are sex trafficking victims and/or victims of molestation, but hey, it's super important that they go to the correct bathrooms. Because, priorities.
Just 'bathroom' Think of all the naturally effeminate boys, who would otherwise just be effeminate, now told they are actually probably maybe really girls, to say nothing of the negative impact this will have on boys that grow up to be gay, now with an even more messed up childhood because of 'trans activism'. Or the girls who don't like traditionally girly things, now told they are actually probably maybe really boys. But of course there gender is a social construct and isn't binary *bangs forehead. And when you disagree the law is brought against you -- truly terrible. Just don't point out to Western campus feminists the situation women around the world are in. Muh feels!
Nah, it's the privilege of us tigers to get to maul people who try and tell us what we can and cannot do, and where we can and cannot go. Rawr.
I identify as a dog. That means I can relieve myself against any article of street furniture regardless of who is present without even attempting to conceal what I'm doing. Because, well, obviously. Duh. Woof.
From all the stickers I see on Chevy trucks, I thought that relieving yourself wherever was more of a Calvin move.
+1 Also, not true. The "Calvin move" was basically intellectual property theft and not part of the comic strip: http://gawker.com/five-fascinating-facts-about-the-history-of-peeing-calv-1599299196 Original: I think the Calvin pee decal must have been thought up by someone feeling inspired by this gem in Brussels. Because, art: So as a Calvin fan from Europe, I'm good with it personally.
C&H are my absolute favorites. I have the entire collected works, and I take them down and read them from time to time. Waterson is a genius. And Spaceman Spiff Underoos rock. That's all I'm going to say about that.
I adore Calvin & Hobbes (evidently), although Hagar the Horrible is probably my fave. I've read every single comic of both (far as I know) several times over ad infinitum (hooray for interweb collections!), and own several books that I re-read from time to time also. Hilarious.
Seriously though ... I'm the mother of a disabled kid. Who can't really use public restrooms without major assistance. That's not based on feels, but on a true abiding severely physically limiting condition he can do exactly zero about, that he's going to have to deal with for the rest of his life. It's difficult for me to watch all this fuss about the transgendered (with all their multiple lawyering and political backing nowadays) and feel terribly sorry for them, or having a terrible urge to throw myself behind any of it, knowing what my son is dealing with, what we have dealt with as a family for 19 years, with nobody giving a flying flip about it. And, restrooms are only the tip of a very large, nasty iceberg. So, when I see our politicians and social justice movers and shakers and cryers-out make some actual and true progress in helping the truly disabled and disadvantaged, I might start concerning myself with making a fuss about people based on feels, urges, and (so-called) self-identifications. But, not until that day. Not trying to seem mean and uncaring ... just saying I got more important things to worry about. If we can adapt and overcome ... so can many others in far less challenging situations. I'd like to see anyone within the LGBT community step up, step out, and offer help to those outside of their own community who face far greater challenges. So far ... crickets chirping there, with all the fuss and noise being made about "rights" and "special treatment". So excuse me for just hanging back and observing for now, until I see some action that's actually going to impress me, some sort of proof that the entire movement is something other than "me"-centric. Then again, maybe I haven't been looking hard enough. I'm always receptive to suggestions and being proven wrong.
We went to a ruined, partly-restored castle last weekend. That and the black sea / cliffs were something to see. The castle had two women's toilets and one men's toilet, the men's toilet had been occupied for years so I used one of the women's toilets. Unsurprisingly, nothing happened (why are there 'men' and 'women' signs on toilets that are exactly the same on the inside?). So no, no sympathy for the toilet agenda.
Saw a "Unisex" restroom at a major rest area I frequent in the North Bay Cal area yesterday. It no-doubt cost a fortune to install. Here, gas still averages $3.00 per and the very busy highways are full of treacherous potholes. Never imagined I would live in a world where unisex would become like an essential, in-your-face public institution, that one does not dare to not respect. Seems more like a statement, like the Statue of Liberty for the west
I still say we should just do away with all barriers and conventional ways of doing things, since that's what society is leaning towards, anyway, and simply have no stalls in public bathrooms. That way we all can watch each other (men, women, transgendered, whatever) defecate right out in the open. Wouldn't that be so "freeing" and "breaking the chains of oppression?" Or whatever?
Boycott North Carolina because of 'transphobic' bathroom laws. > Proceed to perform in Russia where the LGBTQIAAP* crowd is regularly thrown in jail and worse *Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender or Two-Spirited, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Queer or Questioning, Asexual, Allies, and finally, Pansexual It gets worse: http://genderfluidsupport.tumblr.com/gender/