RE: Cisgender vs Non-Binary
January 30, 2019 at 6:01 am
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2019 at 6:04 am by bennyboy.)
(January 25, 2019 at 9:38 am)TaraJo Wrote: Interesting thing about the bathroom concerns towards trans people. I remember, way back in the 90's when the gay rights movement was in its earlier days. Do you know what one of the biggest concerns to gays in the military was? People were afraid of straight soldiers having to share locker rooms, barracks or showers with gay soldiers. Seems to me those bathroom concerns aren't anything new, they've just taken a new form. But here's what struck me: since we did open up the military to gay soldiers, first as closeted gay soldiers and now they can serve openly, how often do we have some kind of soldier-shower-rape going on? Seems to me those shower concerns from 30 years ago were unwarranted and it makes me wonder, are the men-raping-little-girls concerns about restrooms any more legit?
I think men as a group are a little bit rapey, gay or not. That's why we have Kevin Spacey in the same trouble as Bill Cosby.
In my own experiences as a young man, I'm happy to say I never got raped (well, legally maybe but only because I was a minor)-- but I definitely had to dodge a few unwanted dicks in squats, in the Y, and places like that. And at least one of those dicks was a man-woman trans person.
Personally, though, I'd be much more worried about straight men using unisex bathrooms as a play to perv on women than any other combination. Shoe mirrors, small cameras, and so on would be almost inevitable. Though that being said, my solution to that is for us to stop being a prude society and just let all that stuff be out in the open. There are millions of vaginas and penises on the internet-- whatever you've got, unless it's magispecial, really is unlikely to get spread around much, EVEN IF someone posts it online.
btw your previous post was probably the clearest, fairest, and best written one in the several threads about this so far. If you aren't already, you could be a great ambassador for LGBTQ.
