Who's in charge of the Sheila Test?
Posted on 04/20/2015 8:29:04 AM PDT by rightistight
Feeling that bicycle maintenance is too male-centric, Bike Forth, a community bike shop in California, will open its doors every other Tuesday specifically to cater to the “Women Trans Femme” (WTF) communities. Every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, everyone is welcome, but men are not allowed to shop on these Tuesdays.
Volunteers at the shop noticed that “most” of their customers were men, so they felt that they should be banned occasionally so that “other” communities would feel welcome and not intimidated.
Anne Hereford, a volunteer at Bike Forth who helped initiate Women Trans Femme Night, said, “The idea is for people who might feel uncomfortable coming to the shop in general to have a safe space to come and learn about bikes. At the shop it’s a very supportive community, but some people still feel intimidated about coming to work on their bikes, specifically women and people who identify as women.”
She continued, “We want to empower them to work on their bikes, and if that means having a special night where they can come and not feel intimidated then that’s what we want to offer.”
...The store claims that they are not actually banning men, but simply uninviting them from being allowed inside. “We don’t exactly turn people away — we say, ‘Do you identify as part of this community?’” Hereford explained. “If you don’t feel you’re a member of the Women Trans Femme community, this is not a space that you’re invited to. So it’s more of a self-selection.”
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I am woman hear me roar just don’t let men in the door.
Liberal hypocrisy at its best. Two weeks ago the nation was in an uproar because of an Indiana law that would allow businesses - under very narrow circumstances - to use a claim of religious conscience to refuse to provide a service to a particular customer. We were told how horrible it was to refuse service to “entire classes of people,” even though that was not within the scope of the law. Now we have a liberal business refusing service to an entire class of people, and it is apparently just fine.
Ban "most" of your customers. Now there's a bit of business acumen. On the days they are allowed, male customers should receive a punch in the mouth in the name of "social justice". They'll be flocking in.
I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
Hetero-Male-phobes! What weak fools.
To tell the truth, I don’t object to the idea of swimming pool hours for ladies only. My Christian wife would prefer that too.
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there fixed it
Who's in charge of the Sheila Test?
“Just for fun, if I was a customer, I’d get some of my buddies together and picket...”
...you’d be arrested and wouldn’t see the light of day for many years.
Yep. Men should just show up and tell them they are "pre-op transwomen."
Hmmm.
Except that at UC Davis, their most lucrative clientele is a bunch of self-hating leftists. Who happen to be male. Or females that want to be male. Or males that want to be female.
Then the store will survive. They have a right to do this, but the purchasing public has a right to determine if what the store does is acceptable to them.
"Comrade: We are not actually killing you and you family, and then dumping your bodies in this pit.
We are simply disinviting you from living."
Does anyone else see where this is going?
From a Christian perspective this is simply modesty and thus common sense.
From a muslim perspective it is
a) So muslim men will not be incited to lust and thus rape, which would be wholly understandable and justified, and
b) It's just part and parcel of their cultural takeover of our country. We pay for this service we can no longer use, and that's a victory in their minds.
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