The thread she's responding to isn't particularly helpful either.
I think the reason some men are criticizing TERFs is because trans people can already access bathrooms and women's shelters and we don't see them committing sexual assault!
TERFs are lying; that's why they're being criticized.
Every time they argue about how trans people can enter women's bathrooms I just visualize a man who is intent on nefarious deeds, looking at the 'women's bathroom' sign and going 'ah shucks I was this close. Damnit sign!'
Anyway if JK is in there definitely go in there and steal her wallet.
Exactly. This TERF rhetoric drives me up a wall. Women have never and are never 100% safe is public spaces. Including bathrooms! What world are they living in? And youโre just making it more unsafe with this shit.
And of the subset of humans โrapists who will follow their victims into public bathroomsโ exactly zero of them have ever been stopped by realizing they forgot to wear their raping-in-the-restroom drag that day
Exactly. The power is in presenting as a cisgendered man. I worked in a bookstore and a cisgendered presenting man followed a cisgendered presenting woman into the bathroom to take pictures of her in the stall. Super easy when the patriarchy already empowers you.
It just makes me think of when I used to go clubbing, and men's bathrooms became unisex every time the line outside the women's was too long, and the *only* complaints were that women broke the rules of men's toilets by talking in there.
