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shewolfoffranceDecember 12, 2024

When Nancy Mace started making news for her efforts to boot men out of the women's bathrooms in government buildings, a few right-wing male chuds were saying things like "well, we're going to need to have a talk at some point about women invading male spaces" with the implication that things like education and employment were "male spaces", and served the same purpose as a designated female-only space for women to shower, change clothes, use the bathroom, sleep, or receive medical attention.

TheChaliceIsMightierJK 4evaDecember 12, 2024

My dad tried to ask me that as a gotcha, so I said do men deserve single sex spaces to change, use the restroom, and socialize? Absolutely. Should women be kept out of places of power, policy and education? Absolutely not.

LillithDecember 13, 2024

Yes. That is the thing. Men have a history of using their single spaces as breeding grounds of oppression.

Also, I get frustrated with the whole "but won't someone think of the most powerful group on the planet? Poor souls, what will they ever do - Use the bushes?" ..oh, right, they do take that option quite alot already. Not that it should be encouraged.

shewolfoffranceDecember 12, 2024

I think most anti-gender woo men are only interested in leveraging the issue to roll back women's rights and/or further their own careers.

DurableBookDecember 13, 2024

a few right-wing male chuds were saying things like "well, we're going to need to have a talk at some point about women invading male spaces"

Maybe the wishy-washy "feminism means equality" crowd needs to talk about that, and poor them for painting themselves into that corner.

I'll be over here with my "feminism is about women's liberation" brand of activism, where we recognize the power structures in play and do not waste time worrying about making things "equal" for the group that already holds disproportionate power.

shewolfoffranceDecember 13, 2024

Same here. It's a waste of time coddling the "male loneliness crisis" crowd's feelings.

LillithDecember 12, 2024

All those places service men. There are probably more males in Hooters at dinnertime than there are women.

However, clearly men know exactly what a woman is when they want to be seviced by them.

LadybugStardust [OP]December 12, 2024

However, clearly men know exactly what a woman is when they want to be seviced by them.

Porn subreddits are the only subreddits that are allowed to exclude trans "women". They know what a woman is when they're jerking off.

RadisheDecember 13, 2024

It's all good if it makes somebody's pee-pee hard.

TheChaliceIsMightierJK 4evaDecember 12, 2024

The difference? Men have access to those spaces.

JernsaxaDecember 12, 2024

Breastaurants??? What? The word makes me want to laugh, but I'm preeetty sure the concept behind is not something to laugh at.

TheChaliceIsMightierJK 4evaDecember 12, 2024

Hooters, Twin Peaks

babygrandpianoDecember 12, 2024

Tilted Kilt. And I guess we can add all those bikini coffee shops to the list too.

NoDayForADoDecember 12, 2024

There is (or was) a Tilted Kilt near me and I assumed it was just Scottish food and BOY am I glad I learned what it was before taking the family.

worried19December 12, 2024

There are bikini coffee shops?

sylviasmushroomsDecember 12, 2024

That does not sound OSHA compliant.

babygrandpianoDecember 12, 2024

Yes. There is a chain in Arizona called Bikini Beans Coffee where the workers all wear string bikinis. Makes the Hooters uniforms look tame in comparison.

worried19December 12, 2024

Wow, I will never cease to be surprised.

JernsaxaDecember 13, 2024

I thought Twin Peaks was a tv series ๐Ÿ™ƒ well, now I know!

TheChaliceIsMightierJK 4evaDecember 13, 2024

Yeah I did too until my ex husband "accidentally" went to one ๐Ÿ˜‚

LadybugStardust [OP]December 12, 2024

They actually tried to make a male equivalent a while back, but, unsurprisingly, it never took off: https://www.eater.com/2019/7/5/20682333/tallywackers-hooters-men-dallas-texas

JernsaxaDecember 13, 2024

๐Ÿ˜ฌ I would not want my food served by half naked people.

snailsDecember 12, 2024

Restaurants that employ waitresses and bartenders etc with big chests and make them wear tight skimpy clothing

JernsaxaDecember 13, 2024

Okay, not as bad as I feared, although bad enough.

NoDayForADoDecember 12, 2024

I definitely chortled

AmareldysDecember 13, 2024

And none are female only, they all have men in them

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