• Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      Bathroom bills don’t even seem like they increase bathroom privacy. The only passable justification (which still relies on demonstrably false assumptions and in fact completely backfires in practice) is to “protect women” from “predators”.

      In reality, trans people are less likely to be predators than cis, and bathroom bills primarily serve to increase the number of cis people being accosted in bathrooms because they don’t look “normal” enough. So it’s still completely unjustifiably stupid. But it’s the only justification that even makes any sense at the outset even when you believe the fear mongering lies.

    • eardon@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Eh. The vast majority of feminists I know regularly complain that they don’t feel safe being around men.

      They use rhetoric similar to racists by saying men are more likely to commit acts of violence than women, so it’s okay to discriminate against them.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        When you say things like this is it a Strawoman or a Straw-woman or Strawperson? I feel like there isn’t a good way to spell it.