Where Is The Outrage Over Bathrooms!

The do-gooders are all up in a tizzy over trans people using the bathroom of our gender identity but I think not many of them have ever been to sports event or a concert. The lack of women stall is amazing, women either have to wait in line for extended period of times or… use the men’s room and where are the gender police? (Probably standing in line.)

There’s Something Odd Going On in Bathrooms at Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour”

Men who have to use the loo aren’t finding a very familiar scene.

Slate

By: Luke Winkie

June 12, 2023

Michael Carey, a 28-year-old from Minnesota, was in section 239 of Chicago’s Soldier Field for Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” in early June. It put him in the enviable second pavilion above the floor seats—close enough that he wouldn’t need to rely on the jumbotron to enjoy the show—among a teeming legion of Swifties who’ve waited months, if not years, for this precise moment. This was going to be a marathon, and Carey timed his biological necessities accordingly. He left to use the bathroom just before Taylor Swift was scheduled to appear, ensuring that his body would be airtight and leak-free during the three-hour show. But as the facilities came into view, Carey began to panic. A serpentine line of women coiled out of the men’s bathroom and down the stadium corridor. The female Swiftie demographic massively outweighs the men, and in the spirit of majoritarian revolution, they’d overthrown the gender-specific lavatories.

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“I moved past all of the women in line, telling them that I was going for the urinal,” he told me. “When I exited, two men were also skipping the line and doing the same thing without complaint. I was back to my seat within two minutes, and all the women in my row rolled their eyes at how fast I returned.”

Where are the gender police? Oh the horrors! The inhumanities! The immorality!

Hey wait! Did anything happen to the women in the men’s room? Did anyone complain? Was the sanctuary of the men’s room violated?

To be fair, neither Wickman nor Carey reported any friction between the genders as they went about their business in mixed company. “It did make it a bit difficult to make it to a sink to wash my hands as there was a crowd of women all doing their makeup with heart eyes or painting 13s on their hand with eyeliner,” Carey said. “Which is not something you typically see in a men’s bathroom.” In fact, after years of institutional male privilege—the simple bodily reality that the women’s queue tends to be longer than the men’s queue—Carey felt he was due to get a taste of his own medicine.

Two take away from this…

• First nothing happens when the genders are mixed in the bathrooms.
• Second, the building codes were written by men and need to face the realities of life. At stadiums, theaters, and other venues where there are large crowds there needs to be more stalls for women.

Yeah, I had to wait in line and it is no fun hopping on one foot and keeping your legs crosses and then making a mad dash to the open stall telling your bladder wait… wait just a little more.

When I went to see Beautiful: The Carole King Musical just before intermission there was a rush of women leaving before the intermission. It took a minute to realize what was happening. So we have a choice a Hobson’s choice... missing the end of an act or the beginning of the next act.

In fact, if there’s any takeaway from Taylor Swift’s nationwide trek, it’s that despite the hysterical right-wing discourse, where vindictive statehouses are restricting the places trans people are allowed to urinate—as a way to humiliate and subjugate one of the most vulnerable populations—gender-neutral bathrooms get the job done. At the end of the day, all anyone wants to do is pee.