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[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

You don't have bathrooms in your room in a hotel?

I realize now that I haven't been in a hotel many time in my life

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 53 minutes ago

There are also public restrooms.

[-] Jaybob32@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 hours ago

This is bad. But what really struck me was that a hotel had a guard? Do you have guards EVERYWHERE?

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

In the US? Only if there's money.

Guards are only to protect assets not people. When I used to Metro in the Pentagon you would see four or five armed guards with m4s and body armor protecting the carts of the money for the Metro machines. They could give two shits about anyone else.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

I rode some light rail trains in Mexico. The guards were putting money on boxes and I though it was a thought provoking photo. So I took the shot. Apparently they thought so too. They followed me and asked me to removed the photo because it was my first offense. Fuck that I've never been back in 35 years.

[-] paperazzi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I feel like this is a very abridged version of an interesting story.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks! One day it will be a movie....."the train that couldn't slow down"

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 85 points 8 hours ago

Anybody remember those SNL skits where a character named Pat was not clearly male or female, and the whole joke was how everyone was just confused about how to address them but still ended up being polite and friendly? I don't understand how our culture got from there to people demanding proof of gender from strangers.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

And what's more, ignoring that proof even when presented.

[-] SCmSTR 38 points 6 hours ago
[-] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago

i love movies like that, too, but it definitely wasn't popular when it was released. and pat was always the butt of the joke. i also have to check my "but we cured racism in the 90s" indoctrination sometimes. fresh prince made me think things were a lot better than they really were back then.

[-] exasperation@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago

It's Pat, the movie, was a notorious commercial bomb, and sold basically no tickets.

It was made, though, because the recurring SNL sketch was popular enough to attract the investment.

[-] Catoblepas 9 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, I was a kid when SNL was still airing those skits and they didn’t feel enlightened to me at all. Like, this is the same show that “joked” that Brandon Teena (who was already known to be murdered at that point) deserved to die for reporting his rape. Like, not as a shocking thing a heel would say, just a crass joke. It was hilarious to people then, that’s the environment It’s Pat is in.

The 90s were fucked up, y’all.

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 76 points 9 hours ago

So, why is it OK for guard man to go inside if there might be a man in there? Does this not double the number of men in the bathroom? I don't understand bigot logic. The women joining in like that is appalling.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago

The most shocking thing to me is the women. That random women in line said such things indicates to me that there are bigots everywhere.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 42 points 8 hours ago

"When I do it it's Morally Right™" Is their basic justification.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago
[-] doug@lemmy.today 82 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

My wife and I went to what we thought was a suuuuper leftist bar in Berlin; Marxist stuff all over the walls, anti-Nazi stuff, etc., but the bartender stopped my wife from entering the restroom, accusing them of not being a cis woman. Sullied the whole goddamn vibe of the place.

TERFs are such awkward bigots in that they have no endgame other than to see your fuckin’ genitals. No safety, no greater good, just do you have a dick or not?

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

now ma'am, I believe that you were born a biological woman like you're saying, but its company policy that I gotta see that pussy

[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 80 points 10 hours ago

That’s sexual assault, no?

[-] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 hours ago

You don't get it, its to protect the women! /s

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 20 points 7 hours ago
[-] ComradeRachel 42 points 10 hours ago

Hopefully TERFs will learn at some point that discrimination against trans women also harms cis women and empowers the patriarch.

[-] eestileib 48 points 10 hours ago

TERFs love the patriarchy, they aren't feminist at all.

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 13 points 10 hours ago

Hope nobody lets him take a crap in peace ever again. Keep barging in on him and demanding he show id.

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