A transgender lecturer at the University of Arkansas won the right to use the women’s restrooms on campus after the Department of Justice got involved.
Jennifer Braly, 38, was a guest lecturer at UA as well as a student. She was told she could only use unisex/gender-neutral bathrooms at the school, essentially banned from using bathrooms designated female (or male, for that matter).
She challenged the school’s position and was banned from lecturing for doing so. Eventually, the Justice Department’s Office of Civil Rights sent a letter to the school outlining Braly’s rights and their expectations. Braly is now permitted to use female-designated restrooms.
Can’t believe we still have to fight for these kinds of things, but every battle won makes a difference.
Cismales, I have a question for you:
What would you do if you woke up to find you had breasts, no penis, and a high pitched voice? I know, I know: you would fondle your boobs.
Ok, now, what would you do if you were going to be like that for the rest of your life? Everyone would define you by your boobs, you would never get an erection again, everyone would call you “she,” “miss,” “ma’am,” “her,” and the like while addressing you with a woman’s name? Nobody would ever see you as a guy again and, if you tried to say you were a guy, you would be mocked, insulted, told you were lying, called insane, told it was a phase, told to stop being an attention whore, discriminated against due to you “thinking” you were a guy, and the like. If you are straight, you would be called a lesbian for liking women. If you are gay, you would be called straight for liking men.
For. the. rest. of. your. life. Or, at best, for decades until you jump through the hoops and save up the money to fix your birth defects.
I have asked part of this question for a long time. The reason I have asked part of this question is because, by the time I hit the “no penis” bit, every guy I have asked has said they would kill themselves.
Welcome to my world.
“Slut” is just the weirdest insult ever.
How does it even work?
“You do the thing that is responsible for not only both of our lives but collectively our entire species and many of the species of life I can think of right now. Not only that, but you do this act often. And you like it.”
Did you…..did you win?
takingthetardistothemindpalace:
BOTH ACTUALLY.
Both for me as well.
Both. Every time.
EVERY TIME.
Only my last name, and it’s usually only spelled wrong. But if someone sees it spelled right, they pronounce it wrong. xP
(Source: tonightonsicksadworld)
Hahahahahahahahahaha
Love this!
Needs no further comment, ‘cos pictures are worth a thousand words (maybe a million words adjusted for inflation).
Will always reblog Obama with babies.
“Is being anti-male even a thing? No. No it’s not, except in the minds of delusional MR ‘activists’”
I disagree with this so much, and I see it all the time. Even as a feminist, I have recognized a great deal of systematic misandry, especially in the area of childcare. Men have a *much* harder time finding jobs as babysitters or nannies (i.e., a teenage girl wants to spend time around children? Practice for motherhood! A teenage boy wants to spend time around children? Pedophile!!). Similarly, men have a harder time gaining children in custody disputes. Not to mention the fact that it’s ridiculously easy for child (or the child’s mother) to accuse the father of molestation or other inappropriate actions against a child.
I was watching a documentary show with my mother the other day entitled “When Women Kill.” At first, I thought it was sexist against women (women are just as capable of murder as men are!), but in the vast majority of the cases covered by the show, the police didn’t even think to investigate female suspects. That’s not sexist against women, it’s sexist against men!
If you ask someone to think of a murderer, a rapist, a drug dealer, a felon, a prisoner, a criminal, a child molester, etc., my guess is that most of them would immediately think of a man. That, believe it or not, is systematic misandry. That isn’t to say that I don’t do it; indeed, I’ve only noticed that other people do it because I’ve realized it in myself and tried to stop it.
I’m not saying that misogyny is somehow lessened by the existence of misandry, but I think it’s unfair to ignore the problems of one group just because there are bigger problems in another group. In fact, a lot of misandry goes hand-in-hand with misogyny. A woman is obligated to stay at home and raise her children in the same way that a man is obligated to go to work and be the breadwinner. A woman is seen as “asking for it” in the same way that a man is seen as unable to control his urges. You can’t say that a woman can go to work like a man and then say that a man can’t stay home with his kids like a woman. That is inherently sexist, and sexism can go in both directions.
it’s rare to see a feminist who can recognise and point out examples of misandry and not throw a tantrum about it, thank you.
this is a very good post.
