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Okay, this is exactly the kind of malicious compliance that I can get behind. Fucking legends.
Travelling the state, shitting for a cause. Big ups to the GOATs!
It's funny because it's barely even malicious compliance, it's just following the law 😭😭
yes, that's what malicious compliance is
Malicious compliance is about applying an overly literal interpretation of a rule. There is nothing overly literaral about acting as if a law requiring trans people to use the wrong bathroom requires trans people to use the wrong bathroom.
Well yeah but isn't it usually taking advantage of small technicalities within a law to cause disruption? This is literally taking the law at face value, as it was intended
they are going out of their way to create situations where they follow the law and cause disruption. that makes it malicious.
the intent of the rule is irrelevant.
I went into a bathroom, and there was either a trans or CD person presenting as female using the urinal. It threw me off, and I thought I went into the wrong bathroom for a sec. Took me a second for my brain to realize, wait, that's a urinal, so I'm definitely in the right place. Because I'm not a piece of shit, I laughed off the awkwardness of seeing a female using a men's urinal and went about my day, but these conservatives who get all mad about trans women using the women's room will 100% be just as outraged when they are in the men's room and see one at a urinal.
The point is to put trans people in danger
Love it but I prefer “You best respect my trans homies, before I change your pronouns into was and were”
I know those ain’t pronouns but they can’t read so fuck it
A slight rewrite can fix that
“ unless you wish to identify as was/were, you’d best respect my trans homies”
-furiously scribbles notes-
See, this is why protest signs need to be crowd-sourced.
How about
"Respect trans people or you'll identify as was/were."
Is it illegal to use an opposite gendered restroom if I’m not trans?
Like if I’m a dude and look clearly like a dude and I walk into the women’s restroom is that illegal? What if it’s an emergency and then men’s room is full??
This whole thing is so stupid.
Depends on the state. In the one for the article, no.
An extreme faux pas, for sure; but acceptable with the right excuses, respect, and announcement.
Meanwhile making women who type ":3" 30 times a day go to the mens room when no one would bat an eye otherwise is just... Insanely unproductive.
Why is there such a hang up with where people pee or shit? Not to diminish trans struggles, but this should be a non-issue for law makers, not a state-by-state referendum on where a minority of people use the can.
Any guy that spends enough time skiing or snowboarding has seen a girl wearing a helmet and goggles use the mens room because there's no line, and I've never seen anyone care.
In fact, I've faced at least three instances where women blocked the men's room untill all the girls there finish their job. Like, I hate to point out, but men need to pee, and wtf is that supposed to mean?
Oh hmm… I think I get where they’re coming from… something like “men’s restroom is dangerous place for women.” So if a woman needs to pee without space in the women’s, she de-facto gets the whole men’s restroom?
I’m cool with that as long as it means I can piss outside, and nobody should be batting an eye. You know the drill, avoid the yellow snow.
But, I think I’m mostly cool with that because their fears are justified by shit politics in the US. I’m not sure they really need the whole bathroom… I’m just not going to die on this hill, no way.
I mean… you’re at a resort, in freezing temperatures. with enough group members to actually block the door.
Or been to a busy bar
"This tiny group of people are responsible for all the terrible things in your life. I will punish them for you."
It works for immigrants, too. Manufactured outrage is a useful tool for amassing political power.
It's previously been used against women, Jews, Muslims, gay people, gypsies, communists, any number of groups. Give the people a group to hate so they don't start side-eying the small minority who have everything while the rest of us work and starve.
Outrage is also preferable because angry people don't think rationally. Eventually they get addicted to dopamine from outrage and therefore want to stay angry. We are here.
That was the point, they wanted a loss loss situation for trans people.
Almost as though the goal was to criminalize trans people for existing.
That's the goal of the government but the goal of those neckbeards is to see women naked. Look how happy they are now that they are paid to force women to get naked in front of them.
Bunch of pervs.
What are you trying to say? Cause it's so vague and unclear that I can't tell if you're pro- or anti- trans
actually the goal is to control cis-women, specifically thier uteruses eventually.
I might go an extra step and suggest it's an attempt to control everyone.
That's crazy, you irrational accusatory liberals will never have any credibility as long as you keep accusing your enemies of doing bad things and having evil motivations based entirely on the things they do and reasons they give internally for doing them. If you cant assume good faith of Heinrich 'skeletor' schlafly-morgoth and his industrial sea otter rape program maybe you just don't have a place in civilized debate.
Heinrich ‘skeletor’ schlafly-morgoth
Should be chiseled into his tombstone.
Assholes don't care about bathrooms or they would simply make unisex ones with private stalls, open areas sinks, and complete view to the outside hallway. The safest and most reasonable option, but no here we are getting cops involved because people love being cruel.
Bonus points if having a small sink in a stall. Makes the process more hygienic and is invaluable in certain situations (mess, periods etc.)
Brave dudes! Good shit
THIS is a fucking powerful protest, good work fellas. <3
Fuck all the transphobes. It's such bullshit and tiring. And I'm a cis white dude, so I don't have to put up with this shit myself, and it's still tiring just to hear about it for decades and decades and decades. (Putting up with it is much worse is what I'm saying.....)
Mad respect to those that stood up (or.... sat down, tee hee hee) in protest. These guys are in the perfect position to make this statement and point out how ridiculous it all is.
First it was the blacks, then more and more people had black friends.
Then it was gays, but more and more families had out gay people.
Now it's trans people, but this is a passing thing.
Who will these weirdos go after next?
These things pass because we organize, inform and fight. They don't pass on their own.