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Feminism is the movement to liberate women from patriarchy. We stand up for the rights of women to control our own bodies as individuals and to control women-only spaces as a class.
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Reading stories about stores or workplaces where you can no longer stop a man from following a young girl into the restroom makes me SO angry. If I ever see that, I am doing something. I don't care if I get arrested. I am not going to let even one girl get hurt under my nose. SO angry. Cannot emphasize that enough.
This kind of stuff always makes me think back on the time I was at a restroom alone as a kid and some random man tried to make me go into the men's room with him. I didn't even understand why he was doing that as a kid, but ofc I didn't do it. In unisex bathrooms he could have just come in after me to check out if maybe he's lucky that noone is in there.
Oh we live in an open carry state. If I see a penis and a little girl in the same changing room/locker room, I will go to prison. I don't have any children and we're putting the burden on parents to do something about this when they have too much to lose. I don't.
You can always follow him in and supervise until he leaves. Observation is not illegal. That’s what I would do.
A woman asked what to do if she saw a man following a young girl into the restroom and was told to do nothing because it might upset the man? Really? This is frightening.
On the WomenAreHuman website there was info about a man who was a elementary school teacher who decided he was a woman. Then he decided it was too hard to walk to the faculty bathroom and wanted instead to go into the bathroom for the elementary school girls. Like doesn’t this raise a huge red flag, a grown man in with the little girls??? This is about getting access to vulnerable victims and making us not able to protect each other.
https://www.womenarehuman.com/male-teacher-now-transgender-demands-access-to-washroom-for-elementary-school-girls/
And in that case, it wasn't the fact that he was trans that kept him out of the girls' bathroom. Safeguarding guidelines strongly discouraged adults from using children's bathrooms. Kind of makes you wonder why he was so intent on getting into the girls' bathroom.
These stories make my blood boil.... The problem is they smugly assume women are are going to “make safe” for them. All mixed gender toilets need to be made as dangerous as possible, vandalized, defiled. Stop making them think we are a safe refugee camp for them to dump on and force them to get their own accommodations. And this will not work with only one Lone Ranger. We need to gather masses of women to find every compromised space and destroy it. Tell them to go fucking make their own safe spaces bastards .
If there's a mens, a women's, and a gender neutral, I don't see the problem. But if all restrooms are made GN then yes.
Yes that’s what I mean! If they have that standard I’m perfectly fine, but if they have men’s and women’s/any one who feels like being a woman today then it needs to go.
Except they don’t want to use a gender neutral toilet - they want the women’s one 😒
You mean a women's and two men's. Because that's the reality. When men enter a space, it's a men's space.
Thanks for posting this. I added my story.
I added my story and was not surprised that there were near identical stories similar to mine in other parts of the world
Dang, its sure filling up fast!
Saving this. I hope I never have to add to it
This is a tremendous resource, and a brilliant contribution--hats off to the creators!
I'm sadly not at all surprised to see stories of men invading women's support groups and basically shutting them down with their predatory behavior. It hurts to read about women who need help with substance abuse being preyed on.
Thanks for sharing. I just provided my story from a secure psychiatric unit for prison inmates.