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Hands Off the Ladies’ Rooms
National Review ^ | April 22, 2016 | Mona Charen

Posted on 04/22/2016 6:01:02 AM PDT by reaganaut1

If it concerns sex in any way, you can be sure that our culture will fixate on it and manage to defy common sense with hyperventilating indignation. Same-sex marriage roiled the waters for decades, but now that the Supreme Court has big-footed that question, culture warriors are prowling for new realms of transgression to embrace. So, coming to a bathroom near you — transgenderism.

I’m just back from a weekend at Harvard University where unisex bathrooms are the norm. On behalf of womankind, I say: To the Bathroom Barricades!

Bathroom injustice has been a feature of the world for a very long time. Ask any woman. Most buildings feature equal-size bathrooms for the two sexes — an automatic disadvantage for women who cannot use urinals (at least as of this writing). At every concert, stadium, lecture hall, or large meeting room, the line for the ladies’ room will usually curl out the door and around corners while the men breeze through their facility with assembly-line efficiency. The only building in Washington, D.C. I know of where this is not the case is Constitution Hall, built by and for the Daughters of the American Revolution. Constitution Hall has twice the number of women’s bathrooms as men’s. Revolutionary indeed.

Some opponents of permitting “transgender” individuals to use the bathroom of their subjective feelings rather than their biology point to the risk of sexual assault. That seems a negligible risk. Hard to imagine rapists donning skirts the better to grab women in a ladies’ room surrounded by female witnesses. But the trans-bathroom movement offends in other ways.

Gender-neutral bathrooms are nothing new. We use them on airplanes and trains all the time. At the risk of offending some men, there are two things that should be said about this.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bathrooms; bathroomwars; charen; homosexualagenda; ladiesroom; perverts; transgender
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The government should not force businesses to allow men in women's bathrooms.
1 posted on 04/22/2016 6:01:02 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Chicks just need to shoot a few “transgendered” rapists.


2 posted on 04/22/2016 6:03:35 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Canadians can't be President!)
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To: reaganaut1
It's really not complicated:


3 posted on 04/22/2016 6:12:22 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If Hillary's last name were anything but Clinton, she'd already be behind bars.)
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To: reaganaut1

compared to all the problems we have in the country this is at the bottom of the list on the give a damn meter..


4 posted on 04/22/2016 6:12:32 AM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: reaganaut1
It's amazing how for the last decade, SJW's have become increasingly hysterical about men's behavior towards women, to the point where a look or a verbal comment is "like rape", but now all of a sudden men are to be admitted to women's bathrooms and locker rooms.
Makes no sense, until you realize they really are out to destroy society.

5 posted on 04/22/2016 6:15:40 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: reaganaut1

Any male perv going into a ladies’ room needs to have his skull caved in, right then and there.

And any “politician” that’s okay with male pervs going into ladies rooms needs to be torn from limb to limb.

That we now live in a country that has become so degenerate and so depraved as to even have this come up as an issue is the most telling thing of all. Damned faggot nation. A disgrace to all who came before us and built this country to its former greatness.


6 posted on 04/22/2016 6:19:24 AM PDT by greene66
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To: reaganaut1

Women only have themselves to blame. They have been voting and pushing this agenda for decades and now they want to blame someone else.

Pray America wakes


7 posted on 04/22/2016 6:20:52 AM PDT by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

what’s to keep bully men from going into transgender bathrooms and intimidating the transgenders.
why can’t the transgender men just use the men’s bathroom? are they being bullied in the men’s bathroom?
will women transgenders be intimidated in the men’s bathroom?
will mothers be allowed to carry guns in the ladies bathroom to protect their daughters or even themselves if they feel threatened

i live in very rural area and all of this is foreign to me. Do cities already have unisex bathrooms? Has this been going on for a while. I am so isolated; and if I walked into a bathroom with men in it, I would be shocked. I have never been in bathroom with man except my husband. It would be weird.
Is this change going to happen immediately??
Will this happen to upper classes? like in their schools, the business they go to? etc. I doubt that but what do I know?


8 posted on 04/22/2016 6:21:38 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: greene66

Yep. In some cases, beatings may be the correct solution.


9 posted on 04/22/2016 6:23:22 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: reaganaut1

I see three reasonable outcomes here.

1) Posting of signs saying that surveillance cameras are in use, and being monitored by a female employee, and that any acts of harassment or indecent exposure will be prosecuted.

2) Giving women’s restrooms an ‘R’ rating, that females under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a female parent or guardian, and if none is available, by a female employee.

3) That women start carrying pepper spray, and if they meet a pervert to liberally spray him in the face before leaving. That this will contaminate the restroom for a while is not her fault. If the pervert later protests, she can just claim that he exposed himself then lunged at her.

While it is also a good idea for women to carry a concealed handgun, in this case it should be a backup to their pepper spray.


10 posted on 04/22/2016 6:25:29 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: bray

Women only have themselves to blame. They have been voting and pushing this agenda for decades and now they want to blame someone else.

Absolute truth!


11 posted on 04/22/2016 6:25:32 AM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: reaganaut1
Trump: "Make America Great Again!" Cruz: "Make Bathrooms Great Again!"

Cruz is for putting police outside bathrooms to examine people's sex organs before they can pee...

Potty Police

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12 posted on 04/22/2016 6:32:43 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Trump is for America First. Cruz is for America Last. It's that simple.)
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To: greene66

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by God almighty, was not because of homosexuals trying to have sex with the angels that came to visit Lot. It was because the whole society, the all of government endorsed and celebrated it.


13 posted on 04/22/2016 6:32:56 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: Lib-Lickers 2
compared to all the problems we have in the country this is at the bottom of the list on the give a damn meter.

That's exactly what the leftists are counting on. They've got you right where they want you.

14 posted on 04/22/2016 6:37:30 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Mechanicos

“Potty Police”

Or pecker checker


15 posted on 04/22/2016 6:41:24 AM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Mechanicos; reaganaut1

“Cruz is for putting police outside bathrooms to examine people’s sex organs before they can pee... “

And Trump supports transgenders to use any bathroom they feel “is appropriate”! I guess perversion is another NY value!


16 posted on 04/22/2016 6:45:35 AM PDT by navet97
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

Evidently you don’t have a young daughter.


17 posted on 04/22/2016 6:47:20 AM PDT by swampfox101
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

That’s fine. How is it going to be enforced?


18 posted on 04/22/2016 6:47:37 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: navet97

What more important, hundreds of thousands of Muslims coming in, Millions of illegals, trillions in debt or Cruz’s pecker-checker police outside bathrooms?


19 posted on 04/22/2016 6:47:55 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Trump is for America First. Cruz is for America Last. It's that simple.)
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To: BitWielder1

...and now the perverts have a new champion, Trump.


20 posted on 04/22/2016 6:48:41 AM PDT by swampfox101
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