Sharing bathrooms rule
(midwest.social)
ShadowOfMiisha (she/her)
196Guess what? People go to bathrooms to use the toilet, fix their makeup, fix their hair or just be alone. Normal human things like that, not to cause anyone any trouble...
I’m not in public bathrooms or at parties all that often cuz I’m a nerdy homebody. But I’m the transwoman who has pads in my purse that I don’t need just in case someone else does. With pain relieving medication, of course.
I keep a heating pad with me in the trunk of my car in case someone at work needs it. Got to save someone’s day about three times with it!
Extra hair ties and scrunchies, safety pins, gum, and so much more in my purse at all times.
Now I keep a few sewing supplies in my purse just in case someone tears a hole in their clothes. Learned how to sew during COVID19
Ladies I fucking got you, because I know you got me. Have cried in a few bathrooms and been comforted. So many compliments on my hair. When I’m doing makeup nobody stares or makes me feel embarrassed. We’re sisters no matter where we are.
Bless you sister 🩷
See the Republicans don't want you to get home safe when you are drunk
Only predators go around thinking about attacking someone in a restroom. They're self reporting, and we need to publicly call them out for it.
exactly. there's much worse people to worry about sharing rest rooms with than trans women.
everything the fascists say is self report, and they tell us how to stop them too. they must be exterminated.
Okay, I hate the republicans too, and by coincidence, a lot of them are sexual predators, but this is some stupid logic.
"Only thieves think about mugging someone in an alley. If you meet someone who's afraid to go out at night, report them!"
You know full well my comment wasn't meant as literally as you're taking it.
The average person isn't worried about these stupid thoughts in their daily lives, other than those falling for the fear mongering propaganda. Just like the average person isn't scared about being mugged every time they go outside.
The people that constantly think and talk about the LGBTQ+ community being predators however do so because they're projecting their own thoughts, that they know are bad, onto a group they can then marginalize and blame.
Okay, first of all,
the average person isn’t scared about being mugged every time they go outside
the women I talk to online (men too if I'm honest) sure had me fooled, and second of all, is it that people who talk about LGBTQ+ people being predators/groomers (perhaps because they saw a trans person and were reminded of what Fox and Friends told them) can only be doing so because they themselves are rapists/pedophiles, or was my comment suggesting that that line of reasoning was flawed a ridiculous exaggeration?
Again, I hold no love for these people. They hold a disgusting disregard for human rights and need to pull their heads out of their asses immediately. But I'm also going to stop short of calling them rapists based solely on the fact that they're (baselessly) scared of getting raped. (We should call them rapists because women have accused them as such.)
It's bizarre to think that in some ways, discrimination and prejudice have been getting worse in our society
Xenophobia drives social movements that enforce hierarchy. And rich people afraid of being less rich will bankroll and support these movements since they're at the top stratum.
But then pluralistic social movements value equality, law based on principle (rather than loyalty and tribute) and this promotes commerce and culture.
So we have social forces that tug society in their respective directions.
Eventually plutocrats will develop technology that allows then to control and contain the masses, and prevent popular movements from taking hold.
Or, eventually we'll make the plutocratic class impossible, and keep tight reign on the political class to keep them from seizing too much power (or using it for narrow interests). One or the other.
It ebbs and flows, mainly with society's tolerance for allowing bad men to exist as role models (or abandon their families), which of course has its own causes, but mainly stems from a stigma against emotional wellbeing in men.
My dad used to call it 'talking to god on the big white telephone'
I used to know it as 'praying at the porcelain altar'
and we keep getting gentrified 😭
