NOT WELCOME? Dad Takes Daughter to Target to Ask About Bathrooms and Their Story Goes Viral

Red State ^ | 23 Apr, 2016 | Caleb Howe

[MtnClimber]

The question of who is being made to feel comfortable and welcome at Target, and who isn’t, should be one of the top questions in your mind before you choose to spend your money in their stores. This week, a man took his six-yeard to Target to discuss how the bathroom policy works out practically, rather than just find out from blogs or biased cable news stations calling the whole thing a “gay rights” issue, which doesn’t even make sense. His story went viral on Facebook, and already has over 22,000 shares and 44,000 reactions.

[Yaelle]

And these stores want us to shop less online.

[SamAdams76]

We are all falling for the massive distraction Hillary is happy we are talking about potty time instead of her corruption and scandals

Post of the thread!

I can't believe we are getting so distracted and emotional over this silly issue.

I've been using public bathrooms all of my life and I've been around more than half a century. I go in there, do my business, and get out. I pay no mind to who else is in there. In fact, it's an unwritten rule among men that eye contact is never made. Just do your thing and get out. And don't forget to at least pretend to wash your hands.

Sometimes women go into the men's room. Particularly at concerts, sporting events and county fairs where the line at the women's room is a mile long. When you have to go, you have to go. At least men can find a tree. But the men's room is never crowded as we all just want to get in and get out. I guess the women like to go there to socialize and apply makeup which is why it takes so long.

Now I confess to have gone into the women's room by mistake a few times. Sometimes when the call of nature gets strong, I don't pay too much attention to the signs. Especially as some public places have gotten too cute by half and put weird symbols or words on the doors instead of the standard "Men" and "Ladies" signage (examples below). When I'm trying to unload a couple of jumbo coffees or schooners of beer, I concede that I don't spend a lot of time trying to decipher.

So yes, I've found myself in a women's room on occasion. The first tipoff is - no urinals. The second tipoff is "Hey, it's really clean in here and it smells nice."

But it's not like in the movies where all the women are dressed in frilly underwear and proceed to clutch their midsections and shriek at the top of their lungs because a man is among them. No, it's not like that at all. Instead, it's me that's embarrassed and I have to slink out of there like a puppy with his tail between his legs.

But let's get back to no urinals. Now I've seen people over the past week make the argument that why would we want men "peeing next to little girls". Well as one who has seen the inside of a women's room, I have to say "not possible." Not possible because there are no urinals. You have to go into a private stall. Then you have no idea what sex the person next to you is because there are walls all around.

So does that mean I'm okay with men dressed as women going into a women's room? Not necessarily. But how would you know today? Most men, with a little work, could get themselves looking enough like a woman (consider Bruce Jenner) to get themselves into a women's room today with nobody even noticing. If you truly want to prevent men dressed as women from getting into a women's restroom, then you pretty much have to station somebody outside the door to validate the sex of whoever wants to enter. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the average woman will not be a fan of having herself "checked out" before she is allowed to enter a public restroom.

So in conclusion, we have allowed ourselves to get caught up in this emotional, mostly "non-issue", while Rome burns.

[Cementjungle]

Sounds like a good solution. Suddenly, the whole issue just goes away.

Probably not. Do you put a urinal in the "family" restrooms to try and keep the toilet seat relatively clean for a little longer? If you do, then that's discrimination. If you don't, then women have to deal with messy men.

If you replace multi-person restrooms, then you need to have many more "family" restrooms to handle the same number of people... a business may have to devote half their square footage to a large number of restrooms.

[unixfox]

For hundreds of years this has not been a problem.

Now all of a sudden it’s a problem?

We are so dead as a country.

[hattend]

What you said.

+1

[Radtechtravel]

Come on peeps, can’t you see what this all about? LGBTs are conflating with feminazis to ban any male privilege. Envy of males having the whole world for their urinal provides the impetus for this push. The Penal Objective issues from the penultimate male privilege: to make urination while standing punishable by law!!

[BobL]

I’m a Trump supporter (big time), but I wish he hadn’t stepped into this one. Per TRUMP’S OWN LOGIC, he should now be AGAINST this crap because it is causing “tremendous economic damage to Target, tremendous damage...”, to paraphrase him talking about North Carolina.

Target is a GREAT COMPANY to make an example of and concentrate our fire. 10 years or so ago they were advertising Hunchback Mountain and they called it a “Love Story”. I have been sickened since and can’t get that out of my head.

So what happens if we now enter the realm of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE and us guys simply use their ladies rooms on a regular basis. And just keep doing that. What can they say to us when we say “I felt crappy this morning and therefore I identify today as a woman” Let them deal with it...THEY STARTED IT.

[Caipirabob]

“We are all falling for the massive distraction”

This thought is not approved. Please report to central control for social reprogramming...

[hondact200]

When taking care of my mother prior to her going into the nrsing home. i always would take her into the women’s restroom. i would stop at the desk and ask a women to make sure no other women were present, and wait till the women finished with the facilities. The woman would wait outside to deter other women from entering while I assisted my mother to do her business. than leave the women’s restroom. I would ask the woman clerk to remain with my mother while I would than use the men’s restroom. many places do not have the family restroom. It was challenging at times because some woman got irate that a guy had his mother in the restroom and he had to assist her in doing her business = pulling down her pants, changing the wet disposable brief if need be, putting o new brief and than pulling up the pants, asisting her to the sink to was hands. I would never take my mother into a men’s room, the handicapped stall door would have to remain open. In a day an age with so many perverts that are out there to take a women or even a young girl into the men’s room is actually opening for a bigger problem.

[xrmusn]

‘Good’ Line from yesterday.

(I think) Chris Plante (WMAL AM630 WashDC)

Male can only go into Womens room when holding his mothers hand.

[ctdonath2]

“it’s an unwritten rule among men that eye contact is never made. Just do your thing and get out.”

Excellent point. There ARE protocols for each, which are very different, and make the normal occupants VERY uncomfortable when transgressed.

There are reasons for gender segregated washrooms, which will be rediscovered at great cost.

[Saltmeat]

Yeah! Females love to sit down on a commode after a male has hosed down the seat.

[Talisker]

Depends on the size of his adams apple.

Feet, hands and shoulders as well.

[roadcat]

Let’s see: A man in a dress has to go SOMEWHERE.

Solution: Man takes dress off, folds it under arm, walks in with his shorts (or panties) into the men's room. Problem solved.

[HomerBohn]

And the entire article wasn’t posted because........

[Talisker]

A society that rejects reality cannot survive.

The people imposing all of this don't want us to survive. This is war by a different name.

[SampleMan]

Who said anything abut looking or dressing like a woman? Where did you come up with that requirement?

Any man is free to use the women’s restroom and dressing rooms.

[taterjay]

This will become another issue of an executive order or bureaucratic ruling saying no way to that. Restrooms must be public so we all have to suffer.

[dfwgator]

You gotta kill the time. The first thing you do is you inscribe your initials on the urinal. Then they run a little bit, then you wet down the entire urinal. “Wet down! Wet down! Wet down entire urinal! Cover all of the dry spots! Gotta get ‘em all! Every one! Gotta look, see if the light is shining.” Then..Then and only then are you allowed to go after the cigarettes at the bottom of the urinal! Targets of opportunity! Yeah. You had to break up them cigarettes. Field strip ‘em, my friend. Camels and Luckys were easy...but a Kent with a micronite filter. Takes three guys and a keg of beer. “C’mon guys! Hey...c’mon. Let’s go, man”

-George Carlin

[bray]

Yeah, please ignore it as they increase the heat on the pot just a little more. It is about to start boiling.

You going to be fine with rapes and videos on the web of little girls?

Pray America wakes