Quote Of The Week
Goes to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who says this about a bill that would allow men to use the women’s room, if they declare themselves to be women. via Boston Herald:
”Somehow we manage at home with bathrooms that don’t have ’men’ and ’women’ on them. And we can probably figure that out on public spaces, too.”
Sure, if you don’t mind lines around the block outside each individual locking public bathroom.
The AP report posted by the Herald backs into the issue with the sad tale of “Ethan,” a woman who lost her job when she began to present herself as a man. Individual rights are great and discrimination is bad. There are also some public safety issues that the AP eventually gets around to, which frankly are of greater concern to me. They revolve around the individual right of my young daughters to use public restrooms that don’t have men in them when we go to to places that, unlike our home, are not furnished with private, locking, perv-free restrooms:
The Massachusetts Family Institute has begun running radio ads warning mothers that they may no longer want to let their young daughters use public restrooms because “Beacon Hill is about to make it legal for men to use women’s bathrooms.”
Kris Mineau, president of the institute, said the bill would open up all gyms, showers, restrooms and shelters to anyone of any gender because there’s no clear way to determine if an individual is transgender.
“There’s no restrictions in this bill as to what opposite gender can use the facility. We’re not going to be able to police this,” he said. “There’s no pre-requirement of surgery or appearance or anything else.”
Mineau said the bill would make it easier for the thousands of registered sex offenders in Massachusetts to gain access to children and women in public restrooms by claiming they are transgender.
I feel bad for “Ethan,” but it’s bad enough as it is having to send your daughter into the women’s room at the mall without having to worry about whether some guy has decided that for purposes of restroom lurkage, he is now “Ethel” and he’s in there waiting for her.
As for individual locking public bathrooms … which may be what the governor of Massachusetts was suggesting if that was actually a serious statement … those could be a problem. It isn’t just the massive expense of replumbing and redesigning tens of thousands of public accommodations. I’m guessing you’ll need someone to clean up the needles and condoms on a pretty regular basis, once you provide convenient locking places to get out of the public eye in public. Might need someone to pick up the bodies and broom the bums who take up residence in there, too. Probably need a toilet czar to oversee all of that. In this state, you’ll also a quasi-public agency to collect the toilet tolls … the Massachusetts Potty Authority, crappy jobs at great wages.
As goes Massachusetts, so goes the nation, lately, so don’t be surprised if you see action by the Obama administration before 2012 gets too much closer. And never mind the bathrooms. I’m looking forward to the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, when some GI Joe decides to push that envelope and embrace his inner GI Jane. That’s going to be a good one. Especially if he’s deployed in Afghanistan somewhere.
Topics: Boston, men, moronocy, pervs, women
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:12 pm on Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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