No you’re pretty simple
What, all of them? My bathroom is TINY.
But more seriously – oh fuck off. Ok not so much seriously as angrily. Bathrooms/toilets/restrooms are separated by sex because women don’t want to take their knickers down in the presence of men. It’s not safe. If David Paisely doesn’t know this at his age there is something badly amiss with the inside of his head.
Besides, I don’t say I “love” LGBT+ people. Of course I don’t. I don’t know them all, so how could I say that? Rights and equality have nothing to do with “love.” Rights and equality are general, not personal; they’re universal, not particular. Love is to do with people who know each other.
So once again there is this line of false equivalence that not wanting male-bodied trans people in the women’s room = not wanting trans people in any bathroom = not wanting LGBT+ people in any bathroom. The T takes over the entirety of the abbreviation. I am sure there are people who don’t want lesbians in the women’s room, but that’s not the main point of contention here.
I don’t have (much) problem with him using the word “love”; there are lots of versions of “love”, and Christians are fond of using different Greek words for them. Lots of companies are falling over themselves to say how much they love their Black employees or the Native Americans or the people of the community, and they don’t mean they know all of them, or even any of them. I think Paisley is aiming at the fawning admirers and setting terms for admission to the fan club. I don’t personally use the word “love” that way, it feels too Christian-y, but I don’t much mind if other people do.
I don’t mind it in contexts where it doesn’t matter, where it really is just expressing good will and the like, but that’s not what Paisley’s tweet is doing at all. When there’s something at stake then precision in language becomes very important.
Jeez, I don’t even love all members of my own family.
I don’t either Holms, your family is pretty sketchy. :D
(sorry, low hanging fruit like that is irresistable) ;)
Same here (shout out to twiliter – gave me a nice laugh). And those of my family that I do love I don’t necessarily want to share a bathroom with. Bathrooms are personal, even when they’re public, at least for women. I guess men have problems with them being personal because of urinals, but I sympathize with that, not laugh haha at the men having to share a urinal with strangers.
Most of the men I know are uncomfortable with that situation; why should they think women would be willing to have male bodies in the bathroom with them? Too many women have too many issues with men already (or am I just weaponizing white women’s tears? You know how I would hate to do that!).
If all the trans women wanted to do was pee, they would be happy with a third bathroom option, where trans would be safe from men, but leave women safe from men as well. It’s interesting how many men who want to be women seem to hate women.
In my country, only intimate partners simultaneously share bathrooms.
I have no problem sharing public toilet spaces with gay men, mostly because unless we are at least acquaintances, I don’t know who is and isn’t gay.
And that is exactly why I support women’s only spaces, because how does a woman know the bloke with the beard who just walked in is also a woman?
I hate my loved-ones.