Women: protect the guy in the next stall
One of these again.
It really doesn’t take that much thought to see the problem. The authors of this harangue can’t have made any effort at all.
What about the privacy of the person – let’s say, just to pick one at random, the woman – who “feels like” the man she sees in the women’s toilet is in the wrong toilet? Why doesn’t her privacy matter at least as much as his? Why is he in the women’s toilet? Why can’t he use the men’s? Why is it her job to respect his privacy but not his job to respect hers? Why is it her job to protect him from harm when he could be there to do harm to her? Why does anyone have to respect anyone’s “identity” when that’s a matter of respecting a fantasy “identity” that differs from the obvious physical real-world one? And above all, she is using the facilities she feels safe in, and the man is taking that away from her by using them himself – so why is she the one admonished that the man is using the facilities he feels safe in?
I can’t believe this stupid poster hasn’t been laughed out of existence yet.
The Turing Test just isn’t what it used to be.
Please don’t do not purposely make them feel uncomfortable? Well, okay, if you insist . . .
Flipping out when it looks like someone is using the wrong restroom is the entire mechanism that maintains single sex spaces. As the Genderists often point out, there aren’t genital inspections prior to entry. It’s up to women and girls to raise holy hell when they suspect a male is where he should not be.
Good job demolishing the safety of women and girls, Turing Institute.
By which time it may be too late. The man is already there, and stronger than the women. (I know, there are exceptions. Many young women would be stronger than my husband, who has lost a lot of strength in his later years, but those exceptions should NOT be the focus, any more than the ‘intersex’ exceptions to the male-female dimorphism should be what we base our policies on.)
New signs up at my workplace on the doors to purportedly single-sex bathrooms read in part “Trust that the person using this space belongs here.”
Um… no.
You (the company) can respect other peoples right to self-identify all you want. You don’t get to demand I cater to the delusional.
Which is why there can’t be an expectation for women and girls to choke back their concerns until a predator’s hands are already on them.
They are admonishing entirely the wrong group to “Do not purposefully make them feel uncomfortable.” That’s the entire effect — and the point — of men insisting on using the women’s bathroom: it’s purposefully intended to make women feel uncomfortable, and to force them to shut up about their discomfort into the bargain. It’s a predator’s dream.
I imagine that if you wear the right sunglasses the sign reads, “BECOME NARCISSISTIC SUPPLY,” or something similar.
And even then…because to report a sexual assault is racist and “carceral”. Especially if you are a white woman, because, well, you can’t really rape Karen, right? It’s so TOTALLY justified.
I still cannot wrap my head around the fact that the people who advocate signs like this are the same people that explained Schrödinger’s Rapist 10 years ago. The amount of cognitive dissonance you need to both believe
– men should keep in mind that women cannot know whether they are predators and behave accordingly
– women should not react in any way if a male-looking person is in their protected space because that person knows best
seems staggering.