bs, i just find it funny that we finally wholeheartedly agree on something at its core. and a social issue nonetheless! i think this means we have to be right.
/\ That sign is hysterical. So, can an 18 year-old feel like 21 and drink legally?
Our bathrooms are now safer than ever. No perverts are getting through in North Carolina!!
NORTH CAROLINA: WOMAN KICKED OUT OF LADIES’ BATHROOM BY POLICE AFTER BEING MISTAKEN FOR TRANSGENDER
Now there’s a law that’s easy to implement. Just keep your tasers handy. If mistaken, repeat application.
hahahah What a disaster. Thanks for the post bchad. Ordering people out of a restroom? Using force to get someone out of a restroom? LE in this country is completely out of control.
Sorry Bchad, but this article holds about as much water as your other theories on this subject.
http://www.snopes.com/transgender-bathroom-arrest/
The red flag was the other article headlines on the page including “NJ gay couple revealed to be long lost twins” and “famous Confederate general revealed to be a woman”
Good call on the fact check BS also, those headlines sound pretty interesting
Ok, looks like I was fooled. But it is what I am afraid might happen, which is presumably why someone wrote a fake article.
Still pretty ridiculous to write a fake article for this. I think the law is horrible but writing fake stories isnt the way to go about things
Exactly. These articles are based on people’s fears of what might happen (rather than reality) which is why they’re created. People don’t fact check it because they want it to be true (in a sense) and they occupty that little nitch between reality and our psyche.
I’ve been caught on that a few times myself. I typicaly have a pretty detailed due diligence process but the few times I’ve been caught by a false article it’s always been in my rush to affirm my own bias.
On the otherside, in college once my friends and I got VIP treatment in Philly when Maroon 5 was in town for Live 8 when I pretended to be the bass player (my friends’ characters were agent and roadie). It worked epicly and people asked me why it worked so well. The answer was that frankly, people wanted it to be true.
The problem lies in the people that want to believe such a story. What were the bathroom laws during the twentieth century? I just assumed I couldn’t use a public girl’s room. What are they now in progressive cities? Anybody can go anywhere?
Well, I posted too quickly because my friend who was the source for me is generally pretty good about checking and because I didn’t want to get distracted and then forget the link. But I agree that there is the lure of confirmation bias.
BS, you have stats on the number of sexual predators. Do you have stats on how many rapes start with men hiding out in ladies’ rooms? Sounds like there’s some fear of what might happen there, too.
My understanding is that the majority of rapes of women in the US are by people women already know, especially on college campuses. So I’m not sure how many guys are doing the ladies room surprise gambit.
This really happened? That is awesome. Always go with bass player as aside from guys like flea no one knows the bass player. Not sure if you watch How I Met Your Mother but Neil Patrick Harris character has a pick up move called the “Cheap Trick” where he tells girls he is the bass player for Cheap Trick (decked out in a wig and tattered 80’s clothing)
I would have thought the website stating all articles are fictional would have been an alarm. This just shows me how differently I think than liberals. It is as if some people want their entirely fantasized image of the south to be true. Believe it or not, most of those southerners are just as likely to offer a meal to a hungry transgender person as they are a straight man.
To my knowledge that stat does not exist. But even if it did, it would be irrelevant since it wouldn’t be reflective of the regime shift in the law (it would be rear facing). Beyond that my points extended beyond rape with most of my focus being on voyeurism and unsafe / uncomfortable environments. There are many documented abuses of coed bathrooms for that purpose, including cases of cell phones being extened over stalls (in Canada no less!).
Anyhow, clearly your own fears are impacting not only your due diligence but analytical and reading comprehension skillset at this point as well. I’m genuinly concerned for you.
I don’t think we disagree on the morality of things. We are mostly having a disagreement about the relative risks, which is an empirical question.
There are a few natural experiments, however and some order of magnitude estimates that I’ll go through in another post. Right now I’m on public transit and don’t want to type it all out on a tiny phone keyboard.
Yep, (it was the age before smart phones, which helped) and we had our stories loosly straightened out. FOr isntance, the “agent” would refer to the other friend as a “roadie” or jokingly “sound b*tch” if someone asked what we did but the roadie would call himself a “percucssion / sound technician” so that the story had a loose but real feel to it. When I talked to the first bouncer I would casually say, “hey I play base for maroon five and we had some issues during set tear down could you just get us a table out of the way?” In reality I got as far as “hey I’m the base player from maroon five…” before being basically sucked into the club in a vortex of bouncers. We put most of it together on the cab ride over, we had pregamed pretty hard. We walked straight to the front of a huge line and got basically mobbed through the club by a herd of bouncers that kept dropping the phrase “maroon five”. They moved a Phillies player from his VIP table to make room for us and at one point my friend was dancing with some girl when her boyfriend showed up and interveined. I tried to stop him by saying we were with maroon 5 and my friend was just having fun. Guy is talking to the GF (he didn’t know who maroon 5 was) and suddely she lights up and he comes back over about a minute later and tells my friend he can dance with his gf, WTF haha.
It basically just spiralled into an epic night but ultimatly we never did it again because it all just wound up being kind of depressing when you realized thats how that guy’s real life is and we didn’t want it to slip into impersonation becomming an actual thing we did. I don’t think any of us had really thought it through or thought it would even work.
Man we just didn’t give a f*ck back then. Good times.
I think the same can be said for a large chunk of this country. Smart people’s brains failing them when it comes to political matters. Maybe defense mechanisms are to blame. They must be experiencing severe cognitive dissonance.
I’d like to retract my statement about Americans understanding satire.
Sorry, no do-overs. 