You Want To ‘Protect’ Women In Bathrooms. What About From Actual Rapists?

[sheshe2]

I keep waiting, but it hasn’t happened yet.


A few weeks ago, there were lots of men looking out for the safety of American women everywhere by wanting to ban transgender women from using the ladies’ rooms at Target and other public places. We were told how women were precious, how they needed protected from “men in dresses.” When the current administration sent out messages to schools giving guidelines on how to treat transgender students, 11 states sued to make sure that our girls are safe in their locker rooms from transgender girls.


Oh, I heard them say that it wasn’t REALLY the trans people they were worried about. Sure, there would be plenty of opportunities to call them freaks and perverts. Lots of chances to remind us that there are just a few of them, so why should we bow to their desires. Lots of dismissive language that told trans men and women that their comfort and mental health don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.


But no, it wasn’t primarily the trans people (especially trans women) that we needed to be protected from. It was the the pedophiles and the voyeurs who would take advantage of the laws. It was the men who would dress up like a woman so they could prey on women in bathrooms. Those were the real threat. Those were the men that needed to be dealt with. Violent men who would do actual harm against women — those were the men that we needed to be on the lookout for, those were who the men were concerned about. Keep women safe from men who were violent.


So when Stanford rapist Brock Turner got a mere six-month sentence, I started waiting.


Waiting for all of these men to start posting their outrage at the system that so dramatically failed a young woman.


More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alise-d-chaffins/you-protext-women-in-bathrooms-rapists_b_10358198.html

I keep waiting and waiting for some justice. Still I wait. Still I cry.

[Thinkingabout]

1. You are right, rape kits sits in rooms for years untested, it could be a repeat rapists

But never tested allows a serial rapists to continue. Women goes through the proper channels and nothing is pursued, when are these same "concerned" people going to get concerned about rape.

[sheshe2]

2. Yes,

they are untested for years on end,

Then we have the GOP telling us to sit back and enjoy. It is no big deal. They want to give more rights to the rapists. I can't even go on, it hurts to much.

[Squinch]

3. Six freaking months. Because more might make him sad. Some days I want to punch someone.

[sheshe2]

6. Goddess.

I want to punch them too.

Tears, and so much pain in my heart squinch.

[ismnotwasm]

4. K&R

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. K&R!

[Gothmog]

7. Transexuals are not dangerous

These bathroom bills are stupid