I'm one of the more unpopular people, especially in the Lefty circles so prevalent in our little "universe" of T*, genderbending, whatever.
Curt Schilling made a pretty correct comment, I think. And none of us want pervs in the restroom with us, peeping over or under or through the stalls.
I'm peeved at the reaction - because when a private baker refused to make a gay wedding cake, the Lefties were up in arms!
But it's not a two-way street... TOLERANCE for them only means the rest of the world has to tolerate them.
Sounds akin to some guy from Austria with a small brush-type moustache ... But we have his counterpart's ideals running for office... For all of Trump's comparable features, comparing to Mussolini, Bernie is in fact a SOCIALIST... Benito claimed to be Fascist, and IIRC, also said that Fascism was the perfect union of government and corporation (paraphrasing, I think he said business.)
Both of those -isms are anti-freedom, though. We could just as easily be on the cattle cars as Jews, blacks, Islamists, Romany. Or the ones holding the guns. Roll of the dice, flip of the coin; you're either for freedom and the individual, or against both - a collectivist.
Oddly, the Leftists don't understand that...
Libertarians, conservatives (small c, which makes them more like Classical Liberals), they can accept differing views and debate.
Over on (another forum), I tend to get threads locked, and I'm probably first in line to be thrown out... And that's a TS forum!
That's also not to say the right isn't filled with room-temperature IQs who are little more than collectivist sheep, but it seems I come in contact with more of the ignorant screaming babies on the left side. The right side's screamers are a little less "omnipresent" and not as tied up in their group investment.
I think those laws are ridiculous, too, and I think everyone knows that with me. There are laws against murder, but people are still killed every year. (And more with hammers, and automobiles, and medical malpractice than the favored bogeyman of guns; but there's no current attempt to outlaw hammers, or cars, or doctors...)
We have laws against peeping, and filming people in the bathroom, and posting such things online... And a woman carrying a Glock can easily "dispute" things in such a way the perv (male or female) will have to rethink their future.
Whereas a disarmed woman is at a disadvantage... It's not like my grandmother's generation, where perps were GLAD when the police showed up... The neighborhood boys and girls didn't have limitations on their beat-downs, the cops would at least probably show some restraint...
The neighborhood? They'd hang you by your privates and use you as a pinata. And they'd make SURE you didn't fall off until after they'd burst you open... ;-)
But I'm a vile throwback and atavistic creature who believes in street justice, because our modern "Just Us" system fails more often than it succeeds. It's more meant for punishment and wealth redistribution from middle classes to governing class... Finding who is guilty of property crimes is irrelevant to them. Padding the budget is the intent...
And in the meantime, is Jazz Jennings or Andrej Pejic supposed to use the men's room? Or, the FTM who posted a "Way to go (sracasm)" on Facebook - "she" is 6', 200#, with a beard - but would now have to go into the women's room. And if "she" complies with the law - she'll DEFINITELY get a beat down...
We really should find a way to make stupidity painful. The headlines would run like... "World leaders struck with migraines! Induced comas the only solution! Due to lack of government and mid-level managers calling out sick, productivity soars to unprecedented levels! GDP up 3,000%! New technologies to watch for in the afternoon include electromagnetic ESP and Kirlian goggles!"
:-P
-Dianna