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That's why I said these are two different cases of the same pattern, not the exact same thing. You're right that they are not the same thing. But we found a wo
by geofft 5y ago
That's why I said these are two different cases of the same pattern, not the exact same thing. You're right that they are not the same thing.
But we found a working solution to the previous problem: gay people get to be gay, and people who worry about gay people checking them out in bathrooms and in changing rooms have to deal with it. It's not a balanced solution, in the sense that it didn't make the two sides of that debate equally unhappy, but from all accounts, it seems to work just fine.
The same solution seems like it should apply to the present problem, too. That's why I think these two cases, even though they are different cases, have similarities.
- dvfjsdhgfv 5y agoBut the "problem" you describe was never a problem, hence it required no solution. You don't have your orientation written all over you, so gay and straight people use the same public spaces and there is absolutely no problem. There was no debate about it because it was not needed. I remember I was in a public restroom in a mall once and a strange man approached me while I was peeing, he was literally looking at my penis. I was very surprised, but didn't feel really threatened, just a bit uncomfortable. But I can imagine being a woman in a similar situation and it doesn't feel like right. The core of the problem is that the victims of vast majority of sexual assaults are women, and for some of them this problem is very real.