Stop Using Your Children As An Excuse To Be A Hateful Human Being

[mac56]

http://www.scarymommy.com/parents-boycott-target-transgender-bathroom-policy/?utm_source=FB

"If you’re truly worried about child sex abuse, then as a responsible parent, it’d behoove you to know that in three-quarters of sex abuse cases, children are harmed not by pooping strangers, but by members of their own family or someone they know. Furthermore, while girls carry a one in four chance of being sexually abused before age 18, the risk for boys is one in six. If bathroom predators are truly an issue, why on earth would I be worried about my daughter but not my son?"

[Initech]

1. I like what George Carlin said:

"Politicians generally hide behind 3 things: the flag, the Bible, and children. I consider those to be symbols and I leave that to the symbol minded."


But they also do that in reverse. They use scapegoats as much as they use symbols. Trans people are boogeymen to conservative politicians. They are extremely quick to cry foul on the subject of trans people on the grounds that bathroom crimes might arise as a result. But in reality the conservatives are the ones who are really committing said crimes.

[rhett o rick]

3. The weak minded are always looking for the easy way out. Always looking for a scapegoat to blame.

[Blue Dalek]

4. True. And the weak-minded are easily scared

while at the same time ignore facts. The republican version of the old jedi mind trick.

[HuckleB]

2. K & R!

[closeupready]

5. On DU a couple years ago, a member actually argued, "you can't rape the willing"

in response to a story about a male student who'd been raped by a female teacher. There was a spirited discussion between this member and another one (IIRC, a gay male who disclosed that he'd had some kind of experience being victimized in that way by a female). The thread went on for hundreds of posts, and the rape apologist never conceded that an erect phallus is IN NO WAY CONSENT to sexual activity. (I still get livid when I think about that thread.)

That person's account has since had it's posting privileges revoked permanently, but when you ask why people should be worried about their daughters and not their sons when the likelihood of being raped as children - for either gender - are in the low double digit percentages, take that anecdote as evidence that there is a culture of rape, very much so. And if such Neanderthal values exist here amongst typical members, then you KNOW it permeates lots of other institutions.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. But using it as an excuse to fan panic about "the transgender menace in our bathrooms"

Is wrong.

[closeupready]

7. Agreed. Sorry if I missed the meaning here -

Cheers.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. No prob.

I had a feeling that wasn't your point, but felt I should throw that in anyway.

[1939]

9. People do worry about their sons.

Back in the late 1940s when i was "too old" for my mother to take into the women's restroom, she had to let me go into the men's room by myself. She would hover at the door. When I was older, she said that she really worried about me being molested in the men's room as a seven year old.