I'm pretty convinced that social media will be a similar downfall to current civilization like lead plumbing was to the Romans.
I Avoid it like the plague, because it appears to me those that use it experiences brain leakage. Not to mention job loss. But then again, if your job is at jeopardy because of a "tweet", maybe it's a sign that a career change is in order.

Scream?

So, do we have bathroom police now? How do we monitor public bathrooms? I never let my children, (3 boys) use any public restroom alone until they were 12 years old. Up until they were 5 they went into the lady's bathroom with me or into the men's bathroom with my husband. After that, they used the men's with my husband or with me standing outside. Parents are the important key here, not rules and regulations. As far as me being in a bathroom with a strange man who calls himself a women, that is just creepy. But how do we prevent it without a lot of gov't control?

Makes me think of the clintonians...billy squeals like a pig and hiltery wears a prosthetic...

Every time one of them comes on stage...they should play dueling banjos.

They protect each other...the worlds Kakistocracies are full of these creatures...they all have some major flaws. "They" are the great unwashed.

That was stated in the Naked Communist of 1958

I'm thinking of the "Dueling Banjos" scene in Deliverance when the guy with the guitar said the kid with the only banjo had lost him.

That is so very sad. In my case, I was fortunate. Growing up in Detroit, all of us kids were taught by our parents and teachers to be street smart. We knew at an early age that there were very bad people out there. We learned that the best thing that we could do if a situation developed was to start screaming. My training kicked in and that was what I did. I have never screamed so hard in my life. Help came, and I was fine. To me, the jerks that are supporting this law are just as bad or worse than the perverts that they are protecting.

"It's damn simple. Not PC convoluted rocket science."
Are you responding to my rant about having too many laws and being too risk-averse esp with children? Or are you saying we've gotten off the topic, which I guess is the bathroom and pervs. Can we at least make a shower instead of the toilets? I first thought of this topic when I saw the shower scene in Supergirl at a kid in the mid 80s. It's odd I can still remember it at age 40.

I thought about it again when my wife and I were at the gym 10 years ago. I said could hear the showers from the women's dressing room, and it was odd to think that on the other side of that wall were a bunch of women walking around tightly wrapped in towels and taking them off to use use loofahs in the shower area. She said the women's change room is absolutely nothing like what I imagined. I never tried to sneak in there though. I think this topic is silly.

Makes me think of a PC Disney ride of the near future.
"It's a Bizarro World after all!"

Maybe they should have: HA...Homo Anonymous.

That about says it all.

Confusing and destroying the culture is and has been a fundamental tenet for the destruction of American capitalism by the Communist Party.

Common decency, common sense, the natural nature of things, logic and rational thinking is under attack.

HEY! It's Bizarro world!

I can't wait for the logical consequence of the males allowed in women's bathrooms idea. After enough women are attacked in public bathrooms and the courts are unable to rule because of he-said she-said evidence, who will be the first to propose cameras be installed in women's bathrooms?

My rant was not at you. I keep hearing how one childhood experience after another that was normal for me is now too dangerous or upsetting for my kids. I think people are slowly realizing this is a bad policy, and the pendulum is starting to swing back.

It's damn simple. Not PC convoluted rocket science.
If you got a ding-a-ling, go to the same sex rest room.
If you ain't got one, go to the same sex rest room.
It's common freaking courtesy!
And there are laws about indecent exposure!

I truly think the bathroom-focused people (I don't want to call them bigots, so insert a better name) are in a dwindling minority.

It appears to me like we're in the midst of an automation and information revolution. I don't claim to know what motivates people, but it feels (feelings can be very wrong) like people unnerved by that turn their attentions to the bathroom. Even if this feeling is wrong, it doesn't matter. People have a right to be left alone in the bathroom regardless.

Seems to be a grand cycle where the perverts win and everything good and civilization itself, collapses.

"It appears that you are assuming people that disagree with your ideological agenda are bigots"
I think it's more I don't know the right word for people against gender equality. "Bigots" is value-laden, but maybe that's okay because sorting people into identity groups and placing restrictions on them is repugnant to me.

But why make it easier...maybe that's the agenda by the most perverse. We know that all this crap is coming from a very small minority...maybe .3%.

"...reducing risk is not in itself sufficient reason for creating criminal penalties."-- CircuitGuy
"let's think about that one for a while." -- mccannon
I have thought about it a lot and get fired up about it.

Despite crime having gone down, things I did at age seven, just playing in the neighborhood, meeting new kids, figuring out who was nice, are now considered too dangerous for kids to do alone. It's like we took that phrase, "if saves even one child then keep kids away from X" to its conclusion, and now we keep our kids away from everything--- evening trifling things like losing a soccer game. They say both teams win b/c the point is to have fun. So we know have people who are 25 years old struggling to make their own decisions without their parents, which 20-somethings sometimes call "adulting".

I'm on about this regarding kids, but the same thing goes for adults. "But if it saves just one adult..." leads to all of us living in a very safe jail, because going outside and doing something entails risk.

I believe laws should be simplified to ban only variations on outlawing physical violence and stealing. This requires people to step up a little and be more "adult" in monitoring for perils. But it also means the vast majority accept the laws on the books and can work with the police to stop the few serious criminals.

So eliminating many criminal penalties and accepting some increased risk is at the core of how I few gov't and law.

There was an article from a gay person that took a pole among his community and the vast majority of that community had that experience when young, without the support of family, without proper knowledge; came to think it was ok, normal or just destroyed their self esteem that they too continued that practice.

Actually, Carl, a number of mental professionals have commented on the necessity of treatment for these people. Those "other" types of professionals must have gone to another school...

P.S. We must be upsetting someone...you and I have been "downgraded" to 0's. Guess the truth hurts...

I know one thing. If I catch a perv with a boner walking out of the same bathroom my grandaughter is in, he is going to need a physical professional as well. If that happens enough times, maybe they may rethink the law. Kinda like thugs who break into Grandma's house and finding out she has a 12 gauge loaded with double ought and has been itching to use it.