A Big, Hairy Princess
As a measure of where we are, culturally – and of the levels of pretending currently expected – this rather captures something:
How terribly modern. How fashionably unhinged.
Moments later, the two girls returned, hurriedly, explaining in whispered tones that, “There was a man in the shower with us.” Ms Tyrrell promptly told the girls to get changed in a toilet stall, where privacy of a sort might be maintained.
Tyrrell says the man, who was muscular and had a hairy chest and back, was wearing what appeared to be a pink child-like bikini, which was adorned with princess tiaras, sparkles, and frills.
Naturally enough,
However,
Unhappy about the front desk’s dismissal of her concerns, Ms Tyrrell contacted the pool’s management via email, resulting in some unexpected confusion:
Presumably, on grounds that no-one, but no-one, could possibly object to a big, hairy, very male pervert lurking in a changing room intended for women and girls. So, obviously, it must be something else. Some kind of fashion issue.
Ms Dobler was keen to remind Ms Tyrrell and other unnerved ladies that the pool does provide the option of “single stall washrooms or changerooms for patrons… [who] want to maintain more privacy.” In other words, women and girls who would rather not shower in front of big, hairy perverts can always retreat and surrender territory to the aforementioned big, hairy perverts.
Women and girls, you see, being a lower priority.
It’s the progressive pecking order.
Know your place, ladies.
At which point, Ms Tyrrell, now somewhat incredulous, replied with a not unreasonable question:
This, however, prompted a more chiding response from the pool’s management, with Ms Dobler boasting, “We are proud to have a Diversity in Changerooms Policy in our centres,” and adding that patrons are welcome to use showers and changing facilities “where they feel most safe.” The ironies of this statement apparently passing undetected.
“Everyone’s gender identity and expressions are valid,” Ms Dobler insisted. “Our goal is to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and valued.”
Readers will note that the word everyone is rather heavy with connotations and does not seem to include women and girls who aren’t overly keen on the intimate proximity of big, creepy men. Even if those big, creepy men are wearing sparkly bikinis intended for children.
If the above should be insufficiently surreal, do read the rest over at Reduxx.
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Canada used to be a proper country.
I don’t normally get a lot of likes on Twitter, but the past couple of days one of my posts set a record for me.
Starts with this post by @just_mindy, trying to explain the sensitive needs that women have in public bathrooms, and then I responded with what pervs enjoy doing in our spaces.
It’s good to see so much agreement, but then those who might not agree have all decamped to Bluesky.
And yet there are so many men who Just Don’t Get It. I don’t know if they genuinely don’t know or haven’t thought of it, or if they wouldn’t care if they did know.
Can we plop these dismissive ladies, naked, in a changing room with bikini-clad big, hairy men? Surely they would enjoy the diversity.
Something tells me they’d be just as dismissive if a girl or woman is sexually assaulted in one of their diverse changing rooms.
It’s a good thing no one is taking advantage of this lunacy. Oh, wait.
https://reduxx.info/argentina-trans-identified-male-convicted-of-multiple-crimes-against-women-rapes-and-impregnates-female-inmate-after-being-housed-in-womens-prison/
For some, the progressive pecking order trumps all things. The rest is just evasion and fudging. Hence, I suspect, the disingenuous burblings of Mr Cohen, our self-admiring MSNBC contributor.
We appear to be devolving as a species…
For those who missed it, I’ll just leave this here:
Along with a reminder that it would be unwise to rely on such creatures. Because, as we’ve seen, they’ll sell you out in a heartbeat.
So, I have a question: Where are these institutions, gyms, public swimming pools, spas and the like, recruiting such people as Dobler from?
Tyrell’s response to the situation described is clearly by far the most common and appropriate one: to protect children from an obvious predator whose mental health problems pose a threat to them.
Dobler’s, it seems, is not.
Yet Dobler is the one who has a duty of care for the welfare and safety of the children on the premises, not Tyrell.
Sometimes I think claims of anarchotyranny in the West are overblown.
Then I read something like this and, frankly, it makes me want to reach for a 12-guage and overthrow the government.
A related item here:
But remember, dear readers, these things never happen.
Initially, our colleges and universities. Now the training starts down in our public school systems and up into HR departments of our private corporations. Culturally it started, and quietly yet perhaps most damagingly, with our mental health professionals. It’s what you get when you over educate the generally useless. They’re not necessarily all stupid. They understand and are willing to be trained in conformity to what they perceive those acquiring power approve of. See “emotional intelligence”.
The signs have been there for decades. Those of us who could see the slow boil of the frog happening tried to tell you but you dismissed such observations as being “overblown” or an overreaction.
First clue.
Hope may come from real men who quietly take the chap aside and say, “We don’t do that here” in that tone that implies . . . credible repercussions, if you will.
It does, I think, communicate more than is perhaps realised. Sort of, I will happily pretend not to see the most glaring realities and obvious contradictions, and therefore cannot be relied upon.
Something along those lines.
Or simply, will lie.
Have pinged a little something to keep this fine establishment afloat. 👍
dicentra:
Bless you, sir. May you be the inventor of the world’s first totally silent leaf-blower, thereby becoming fantastically rich.