I’d give even odds that this guy has tried on panty hose at least once.
Oh, awesome! Cause that’s what I need when I’m struggling. I don’t need health care. I don’t need a livable wage. I don’t need equal rights. I need to sue trans people.
See? Repubs are giving us a path to success. Just sue a trans person who maybe has no money to pay out and everything is fine!
People are starving and unhoused and this is the shit they choose to focus on. People should be mad
People are starving and unhoused and that’s exactly why they’re focusing on this. To distract people from the source of their actual issues. Bread and circuses.
The people sliding the checks under the table to the politicians pounding this worthless wardrum day and night are the same people who profit greatly on the idea that there are people who have, and people who have not. As long as this dichotomy is preserved at all costs, the system remains stable and the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor where they belong: supporting the wealthy with their low-wage labor, and the vast, complicated spectrum in between.
Trans people became the latest convenient target because they’re such small segment of the population. They’re being singled out exactly because they’re easier targets than a racial or ethnic minority. Not that they’ve stopped pointing at ethnic and racial minorities, but they know that more people will push back a lot harder on overtly stated ideas of racial superiority.
As a circus performer, I’d rather not be dragged down to the level of these shit heads.
No no, I don’t intend to besmirch circuses. It’s a phrase attributed to a second century AD Roman poet, referring to politicians generating public approval by providing diversion instead of fixing the root causes of issues or even handling those issues at all.
We could also say “bread and games”.
Food and sports
Dang you’re right that is so unfair to circus professionals
Ironically, most circus performers tend to be very liberal. The circus sideshow is home to all the outcasts, and a large chunk of us are trans or queer. Many of us are disabled, some of us have deformities or body mods (I have a forked tongue). Republicans would undoubtedly send us to the gallows if they could.
I’ve literally gone on stage to warn people about the bills that Republicans are trying to pass. At our core, we’re artists, and we’re trying to fight the good fight.
In fact, the history of the “freak show” is very interesting and worth reading about. It’s a story of how capitalism exploits vulnerable populations for profit (PT Barnum is a piece of shit), though it has evolved a lot over time and is different now.
Yes? They’re focusing on issues where they don’t like status quo.
Does this also affect any private establishment that wants to have a non-gendered bathroom? Like can those businesses sue the government for overreach for putting an onerous burden on their business for needing more than one bathroom?
Ok, so what if dad brings his 3-year-old daughter into the men’s room, or mom brings her infant son into the ladies room? Can I sue over the emotional trauma that caused me?
Or more importantly what if I use the bathroom in my home and then my wife or daughter use it later? Can I sue them both?
but my umbrage
Cue them freaking out when bearded hairy trans men are forced to use women’s washrooms because of this law.
Today, in “problems only people that check other people’s private in bathroom have”…
Mississippi governor volunteers to be a piss-bucket
Let the rest of NA band together and start calling them pississippi and let their residents scratch their heads
And if they get uppity about it, they get labelled MissusPissy
If I ever go to Mississippi I guess I’m gonna have to piss on the governor’s mansion instead
Can we petition to rename it Missipississipy?
Too difficult to pronounce. Let’s just call it Pississippi. There’s too many M states and only one P state anyway 🤷
Why would you ever do that?
Go to Mississippi I mean, it’s the literal worst state in the worst country.
the worst country
This seems a little dramatic
Try being trans, gay, or black here then get back to me.
Edit: or poor. Or homeless. Or neurodivergent. Or mentally ill.
Actually you know what, just go fuck yourself, how’s that?
Looks at Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, etc
just go fuck yourself, how’s that?
This also seems incredibly dramatic
I’m not trying to say that the US is perfect, but do you honestly believe that the US is the “worst” place to be any of the things you listed?
There are plenty of places in the world you would be put to death for being gay. Try asking an immigrant from literally any of those countries if they prefer the US and get back to me.
We did it guys! The bar is a millimeter off the floor and we cleared it!
You’re actually arguing that the difference between being put to death and not is a “millimeter off the floor”? That is some privileged nonsense, frankly.
I agree that the US has problems, but hyperbolic doomerism is hardly conducive to changing any of that.
I’m saying “Some places are worse” is not an argument that “This is fine”.
The point being discussed is that this is a terrible law and an example of Mississippi being a shit hole. You are just side tracking the conversation because you don’t understand the function of hyperbole in speech and think talking about how “The US isn’t literally the worst place to live” is somehow a helpful or useful conversation to have in light of the topic art hand.
The US has problems, and insisting that some places are worse is hardly conducive to changing any of that.
I’ve got real bad news about how the rest of the world feels about those things then.
As sad as it is, America is one of the most progressive and diverse nations in the world.
You don’t know how much that means to me as a Texan. I was thinking we were the worst, but you give me hope.
As a former Floridian, I thought Florida was the worst.
No, wait, I’m pretty sure Florida is still the worst, but Mississippi is going to be joining Florida on Erin’s Do Not Travel list. :(
Florida speed ran to the bottom. Mississippi has been awful from the start. Texas is the disappointment state, it keeps looking like it might turn blue before pulling some bullshit
America sucks but have you heard of Haiti?
The US is the worst country? Wat? Bro, have you heard of North Korea?
Can’t wait for all the dudes walking into the ladies room simply because of chromosomes. They never consider the reverse when dog whistling…
They don’t care. Their goal is for trans people to be too afraid to go to any restroom, or for them to face consequences if they dare go to any restroom.
Pretty sure this already happened to a trans guy once and you wouldn’t guess what they did…. They were mad about a man in the women’s room 🤦♀️
He got beat up and arrested.
You how they say, “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature”? Well…
Those poor judges who want to deal with legitimate cases
Oh the fifth circuit is SO excited for this
Edit: I had to google to double check, but yes, Mississippi is part of the fifth circuit (ones of the most conservative appeals courts in the USA)
I’m sure the conservative half of SCOTUS won’t complain if it gets kicked up to them either.
Can trans people sue cis people for harassment then?
No. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Trans people are one of their main out-groups.
TBH that’s still preferable to assaulting them like belligerent anti-trans people usually do. /s
Why isn’t this the fucking Onion?
The Onion Headline version:
“Bathroom Assaults on Trans People Plummets after bill allows them to be sued instead”
Only joking, theres no good to come of this
Oh we will be beaten and then given a bill for the privilege.