A startling new development on the frontiers of anti-male oppression. According to the loquacious lady MRA known as girlwriteswhat on Reddit, men are being oppressed by evil feminist dudes cruelly clamping down on their right to bitch about ladies in the bathroom. In a recent comment she writes:
No space is allowed to be male-only, or male-viewpoint-only, but women insist on female-only or female-viewpoint-only spaces all the time.
The only male safe space left on the planet is the men’s bathroom, ffs. And even then, there will be feminist-leaning men policing what is said. It’s very frustrating.
As a dude feminist who is a regular user of men’s restrooms, I should note that dudes do not actually talk in restrooms.
Happily, this does not prevent me, as a dude feminist, from policing the non-existent speech of other dudes in said restrooms.
Here is the complete transcript of a restroom discussion I recently policed:
Dude One: [silently urinates]
Dude Two: [silently urinates]
Dude Three: [silently poops]
Me: Goddessdamnit, keep it down with all your lady-bashing! Men are bad!
Always glad to help.
HT to Shit Reddit Says, which has just ended its month-long moratorium on r/mensrights posts, for pointing me to girlwriteswhat’s observation.
Actually, SRS is ding some sort of reverse voting thing, in which downvotes are upvotes. They have an explanation in the sidebar. Those wacky kids!
Oohhh, ok. Thanks, I missed that.
I agree with everything you say.
at my school there’s a Title IX police officer stationed in each restroom to enforce compliance with the feminist agenda
BLASTT
Lauralot: “There are no male viewpoint-only spaces? I take it she’s never heard of a men’s club. Or a hell of a lot of Grand Lodges in Freemasonry.”
Or the Catholic Church
or the U.S. government
or the business world
or the women’s fashion industry
or Hollywood
or the advertising industry
or Reddit.
I’d really love to know what “male perspective” is meant to entail in this context. Because as a man whose perspective is decidedly pro-feminist, I can tell you that some of those “male-only spaces” ain’t so fuckin’ safe.
My school doesn’t even have men’s bathrooms anymore. When the concern was raised that having men’s bathrooms creates a male safe space, everyone agreed it was unacceptable. Men are now required to hold it, or find a convenient tree.
40% of the male student population dropped out when it was -30 a few weeks ago.
“I can tell you that some of those “male-only spaces” ain’t so fuckin’ safe.”
Like the YMCA?
Nah, I actually heard it’s fun to stay there.
Is there some kind of Mr. Manner’s Guide to Public Bathroom Etiquette that we don’t know about?
If so, I haven’t been informed.
“There are no male viewpoint-only spaces? I take it she’s never heard of a men’s club. Or a hell of a lot of Grand Lodges in Freemasonry.”
Are these still a thing? I’m genuinely curious about that. I just associate them so much with the 1950’s, and the Flintstones. I didn’t realize they still existed.
If there’s not a neutral or family restroom, I just use the men’s room (it’s just easier that way) and really nobody talks in there. Certainly they don’t have debates. The only large, 100% female groups I’ve ever been in were at screenings of the Twilight series. Not much talking in there, either, although I did hear someone chuckle when Victoria got her head punched off. MISVAMPIRITY!
LOL Girlwriteswhat has been Futrelleboobed
I’m not sure about men’s clubs, but there’s a lodge in my hometown and I know they don’t admit women.
My school has men’s, women’s, and unisex single-stall bathrooms.
The unisex ones are helpful for disabled people, trans and genderqueer people, and parents with little kids–three groups that could actually gripe about public restrooms being unsafe places.
But I suppose since they’re single-user you could also complain about women in them. Nobody at all would “police” you.
YAY SAFE SPACES
GWW has more courage than everyone on this board put together.
GWW endured unspeakable horrors and emerged with the integrity and honesty to see feminist injustice for what it is. It is remarkable in the extreme that she champions men’s rights.
Even fidelbogen said “No need to be coy roy just do it” when speaking of making more mens clubs.
It seems like a lot of whining but no action taken and even if feminists did make it more difficult to start another mens clubs than you can simply hit them with a law suit and win.
walking in to the wrong bathroom is not, as it turns out, much of a horror at all.
My school polices male-viewpoint-only talk in the single-user bathrooms using special sensors we forced male scientists (because technology = men) to create for us.
If writing bullshit on the internet is some act of heroism, Zarat, you must be the most courageous motherfucker on Earth.
How’s the VR wife replacement technology going?
My school’s cafe has two bathrooms, but they’re both gender-neutral. The trans group is campaigning to have gender-neutral bathrooms in every building on campus.
Also, I’ve talked to strangers in bathrooms before. Mostly during musicals, because the lines for the bathroom during intermission are really fucking long, and because you have several topics of mutually interesting conversation (the show you’re seeing, how many times you’ve seen the show you’re seeing, which actors played the characters better, whether you’ve been in the show you’re seeing, other shows you’ve seen, whether the actors in this show were better in other shows, which shows the other person should see, which shows ought ot have revivals already, the people you’ve met stage-door-ing…). It’s a nice place for single-serving friends.
It is remarkable in the extreme that she champions Men’s Rights Activists. FTFY.
I’ve also gone to dudes’ bathrooms before…