Some Feelings Are More Equal
By Mitch Berg
In the modern world, and to the two generations raised in it, feelings are paramount. Your feelings are reality.
Unless they, er, intersect with more important, vogue-y feelings:
Then, those feelings are supposed to be suppressed; “shut up or get cut up”, as Elvis Costello put it.
March 13th, 2024 at 6:41 am
And the school board is in the hands of such a lot of fools
Tryin’ to anesthetize the way that you feel
And, for that matter:
They’re saying things that I can hardly believe
They really think we’re getting out of control
Appleton East, eh? The Patriots, as they’re known. Okay then. Wonder if they have similar signage at Appleton West, known as the Terrors.
March 13th, 2024 at 7:22 am
So, this sign only exists in the girl’s bathroom? For “boys who are using the girl’s bathroom”? Are there no girls who use the boy’s bathroom?
… oh, wait, there’s the high school boy’s bathroom problem. When I went to high school, many years ago, the boy’s bathrooms were disgusting. Apart from the urinals, it was only the bravest (most desperate) that used them for their intended purpose. And only then after performing a pretest flush to determine functionality. And that was if the toilet wasn’t already stopped, the door to the stall was still on the hinges (maybe even could close), and no one (bigger and more intimidating) was in there sneaking a smoke… has this changed? I doubt it.
I can’t speak for the girl’s bathrooms. Was it the same?
Anyway, there’s half as many or fewer toilets, by design, in the boy’s bathroom compared to the girl’s – and of those virtually none of them work. And it’s my understanding that girls need to use actual toilets for both number 2 as well as number 1… so I think I’ve answered my question from above. No, there are no girls who use the boy’s bathroom. You only need the one sign.
QED.
March 13th, 2024 at 8:03 am
No, there are no girls who use the boy’s bathroom.
Except in bars, on Saint Patrick’s Day, or stadiums on big game days, when the lines for the ladies rooms require reservations a month in advance.
March 13th, 2024 at 9:03 am
I think the question is simple; given that there is a certain portion of young men who have no shame, what protects girls when they decide to be “trans” for their own voyeuristic purposes? In a certain regard, it’s not even about real “trans” people, but rather about those who are, or soon should be, on Megan’s List.
And what recourse do girls have against the school district when they are the victims of voyeurism or worse?
March 13th, 2024 at 9:21 am
what protects girls… what recourse
Oh, please… young people, and especially young women, in the West have been carefully taught to accept any degradation, any violation, and any offense without raising so much as a peep of protest if the perpetrator has a higher socio-political standing. Moreover, if contra all training, one happens to speak up (Riley Gaines), she can expect to be ignored by the aging hippie “feminists” now in control of so much and abused by the good little bootlickers in the media for her trouble.
That said, however, the only people who can resolve this abuse are the very victims who accept it.
March 13th, 2024 at 10:30 am
jdm, unfortunately too true. Part of me thinks that a big part of the problem with trans inclusion in womens’ spaces is that at some point, the fathers, husbands, boyfriends, brothers, and other friends of the girls and women who are abused are going to take matters into their own hands.
One interesting thought for a midpoint is that if I were a coach for a basketball, hockey, or other team victimized by trans participation, I’d be tempted to get a “fake trans” player, ideally a cornerback or power forward from the boys’ team, to be the “enforcer” for the girls’ team. Unfortunately, he’d take a roster spot that ought to be held by a girl, but he’d only play when the “trans” player came onto the court or field, and his job would be to prevent the trans player from taking the game to the girls so the girls could play.
And if the trans player got a girl hurt, yes, he’d be called on to commit a couple of very hard fouls. If called a boy, he’d smile and say “you don’t get to define trans” in his deepest bass voice, and no, he wouldn’t be shaving his beard or pits or legs. More or less, if other teams play someone who is obviously not a girl, so would the ethical teams.
March 14th, 2024 at 10:29 am
I would get in this BOYS face if I were a girl and scream in their faces.