He Was Drying Himself, But Quite Vigorously
Remember that thing, the thing that never happens?
Well, by now you know the drill:
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Man pretending to be a woman caught m*sturbating in the women’s bathroom with women present
“I’m allowed to be in here… I’m a transgender.” https://t.co/gBdrwePPGd
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 5, 2026
Or, How dare you bigots object to his incongruous masturbation in the women’s bathroom?
The young lady unnerved by this exercise in suspiciously vigorous towelling recounts her experience here:
One might think this would be an uncontroversial point. A statement of the obvious, or formerly obvious. Readers will, however, note the inertness of the staff, at a Planet Fitness gym in Concord, California, and the young lady’s air of resignation, of futility, as if her experience were merely something to which she, and by extension all women, are expected to become accustomed.
In this thrilling age of progress.
Readers may recall our previous adventures in the super-inclusive bathrooms of Planet Fitness, where a “climate of understanding” and being “judgement-free” are the highest conceivable goals, and where perverts gleefully expose themselves to fifteen-year-old girls:
You see, in the progressive pecking order, the fantasies of sexually dysmorphic men – and the preferences of male sex offenders – are of much greater importance than any “discomfort” felt by the women and girls on whom the former groups choose to impose themselves.
Women and girls whose role, it seems, is merely to understand and tacitly affirm. To be reluctant accessories to some strange man’s psychodrama, while remaining free of judgement. Which is frowned upon.
“Staff,” we’re told, “also promised to warn him not to expose himself to other people.”
Because the modern, not-at-all-insane response to repeated acts of indecency and sexual intimidation – by a predatory man in the women’s changing rooms – is to ask him not to keep waving his erection at women and children. On grounds that what he’s waving could somehow be a lady’s penis. Such is the sophistication of our times.
So, ladies. Or actual ladies, I should say. Are you feeling all that sensitivity and progress, that rush towards utopia?
Update, via the comments, which you’re reading, of course:
Mags adds, not unreasonably,
Prompting this from Dicentra,
To which Daniel Ream replies:
Quite.
If an illustration is needed, let’s not forget the saga of Mr David “Sasha” Yates, a cross-dressing high-school sports coach with an interest in schoolgirls’ panties. And his immensely loud and righteous defenders, who were indeed overwhelmingly progressive women:
The same progressive ladies who denounced as “hate” and “transphobia” any expression of concern, and who elevated themselves with the airing of modish views, their ostentatious displays of inclusivity, while screwing over the schoolgirls being harassed by a cross-dressing creep. Because in the Progressive Pecking Order, expressing discomfort with sexual boundary violations is terribly low-status when the culprit is a man pretending to be a woman.
Readers will note the TV news interview linked in the post and its eye-widening implications:
That these sentiments were expressed with great confidence – by a woman – and were left entirely unchallenged by the reporter – also a woman – is quite a thing. It does, I think, tell us something about progressive priorities and which groups are deemed of much less importance.
It’s hard to see any alternative reading of that exchange, or of the saga generally.
Our bewigged pervert, who boasts of an “exposure fetish,” was eventually, belatedly, obliged to seek employment elsewhere, following some further, shall we say, indiscretions:
And so,
Again, words that every parent longs to hear.
Whether the schoolgirls whose underwear so intrigued Mr Yates, or their parents, are likely to receive an apology from the school district, or from any of the progressive ladies who dismissed their concerns and accused them of bigotry, remains unclear.
Though readers are welcome to speculate.
Oh, and should a visual aid be helpful, I have just the thing:

Captures something, I think.
Update 2:
Commenter Svh adds,
There is something about it. Its fundamental ludicrousness. The gushing, the genteel throat clutching, the massive hands.
A snapshot for our times.
And all of that is before you learn the context. What it is that’s being applauded.
Note that Mr Yates refused to use the bathroom and changing facilities provided for his own exclusive use and instead insisted on parading his grotesqueness in front of the captive schoolgirls. As one of the girls put it, his being “fully a man.” That’s what he wanted – to harass and intimidate girls. Children. To make them feel unnerved and dominated.
And the progressive ladies applauded him. For his bravery.





A general failure on the part even of teachers of more gifted students:
My grade school teachers neglected the teaching of grammar, presumably because it was too “boring” and “old fashioned” for enlightened Ed School students and graduates who much preferred to experiment on us kids with all sorts of “innovative” teaching methods–no benefit to us kids but I’m sure they resulted in lots of papers in journals of education.
I could read very well, but my freshman English teacher had to spend a good deal of time making sure all of us had a good technical understanding of tenses, parts of speech, etc, etc. In retrospect I wonder what our foreign language teachers thought.
Succeeded, upon retirement, by Prof. Flintlock.
Romans go home!
I remember his (understandable) exasperation quite vividly. He was a rather stern chap, quite forbidding, but conscientious. And in hindsight deserving of more respect than most of his peers.
Most conscientious teachers are long-suffering, given the nature of kids.
The whole everyone gets a trophy, self-esteem, and lowering standards in school is a feminine orientation/attitude. Everyone should feel good. Flunking kids makes them feel bad. Low grades make them feel bad. Successful people have high self-esteem therefore the goal of school should be self-esteem. What you get is “we waz kings!!!” and ebonics. Of course backwards causation and not doing any favors for poor kids.
My High School French teacher, an irascible Czech (who also taught German), once told the English faculty that they should pay him part of their salary, because he had to teach English grammar before he could get started on the ostensible course material.
I’m erasing lines, boundaries, and breaking chains.
Someone is trying for a book deal or to be hired as a talking head.
The problem is if no one does . . . who cares?
Awwww … poor, wittle commie has her feelz hurt.
I’ve never warmed up to MTG from the beginning. There was something just a tad desperate about her … like that middle school girl who can’t quite get in with the cool kids but still craves attention so she hangs with on the fringes with the theater kids or whatever school group will tolerate her ‘look at me’ shenanigans for a while.
Her new friends on the Left will be happy to accept her as the Temu “Maverick” McCain.
Let’s hope that something substantial falls on her. From a height. Preferably, something that’s on fire.
A Kansas farmhouse?
That photo is hilarious.
Helen Andrews is not saying anything new; Paul Elam, Warren Farrell, Christina Hoff Sommers et al have been saying the same thing for multiple decades now. But for whatever reason, it’s Andrews’ essay that’s triggered the preference cascade. I’m seeing a lot more “repeal the 19th”-style rhetoric across blogs and social media, and not among bots or mobys either – long-time conservative commentators who have always been fairly protective of women generally are starting to lean into the Mencken quote (“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”)
Reinstate property requirements before repealing the 19th. Possession of an appetite is insufficient criteria for franchise eligibility.
Vince Clarke and Andy Bell engaged in a lot of erasure and broke chains too. Am I supposed to be impressed?
That’s because English is nearly devoid of inflection compared to many other languages. All those invasions over the centuries ground off the rough corners, leaving us with a few pronoun declensions and only the 3rd person singular with a conjugation.
It’s hard to cotton on to conjugations and declensions when your native tongue uses syntax more than morphology to mark it.
Latin class (and later, learning Spanish) taught me to understand English grammar better because I had to use a different word form to express the subjunctive, and then I started noticing how English did it without changing word forms.
re: Helen Andrews, who says
No, it’s PATHOLOGICAL female patterns of behavior. Cluster B women elbowing their way to the front, grabbing the mic, and shouting their distorted view of humanity with such insistence that all must bow.
It’s “mean girls” behavior, which isn’t typical female behavior but antisocial female behavior. Reputation savaging, shunning, mass hysteria, tone policing, and strategic emoting to claim victimhood, thus to manipulate.
It is toxic femininity … something that leftist feminism pretends doesn’t exist at all.
Related:
Footnote of note.
@memeticsisyphus
Ms Natalie Shure, the woman quoted above, the one who seems impervious to internal contradiction, writes for The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Times.
There is something about it. Its fundamental ludicrousness. The gushing, the genteel throat clutching, the massive hands.
A snapshot for our times.
And all of that is before you learn the context. What it is that’s being applauded.
Note that Mr Yates refused to use the bathroom and changing facilities provided for his own exclusive use and instead insisted on parading his grotesqueness in front of the captive schoolgirls. As one of the girls put it, his being “fully a man.” That’s what he wanted – to harass and intimidate girls. Children. To make them feel unnerved and dominated.
And the progressive ladies applauded him. For his bravery.
Band name.
That’s been the leftist attitude since my childhood.
Hence, as I’ve said, turnabout is fair play.
Again, I submit that much of this has been driven by the endless introspection, dissection, and…well probably something else that ends in tion that goes on in our high school English classes and college literature classes. The obsession with fiction. Especially the chick-lit (chic-lit?…ok, certainly not chiclet) stuff. We need to stop pushing that crap in schools. Stop wasting students’ time. I was going to say “intelligent students” but I think that term is now rather meaningless.
Well, it’s interesting just how often and how blatantly there’s no higher, reciprocal principle. No common standard. Just entirely different and contradictory rules for different tribes. Rules that may change from one week to another, depending on short-term advantage. Though I suppose this disregard for dissonance is what you’d expect from people who score lower in tests of conscientiousness, which progressives as a group tend to do.
I’m sure the Wise Heads at The Bulwark and The Atlantic will continue to
adviseinstruct us that it is Wrong and Imprudent to play tit-for-tat, as a True Conservative would never dream of using reciprocity to punish and disincentivize leftist misbehavior. Much better to lose with unstained hands. “If we fight back, the terrorists win.”Love it when the estrogen kicks in.
You’ll own nothing and … well, robots don’t care if you’re happy or not.
I may be reaching here, but I don’t think she’s entirely happy.
The degree of course correction required will likely take some people by surprise.
[ Admires freshly gritted paths, awaits snow. ]
It really is, and you know this. Anyone who has ever observed women in groups knows this.
Men have their own destructive forms of intrasexual competition, but because men had the physical and temporal power society was obliged to develop checks on that behaviour. Women had no temporal or physical power, and so their excesses were limited in the damage they could do.
Post-19th Amendment, we have a society where physical power has been rendered immaterial by industrialization, and women have the same temporal power as men in the form of exercising the franchise – but society has had neither the time nor the will to develop checks on that behaviour.
And so here we are.
Poor guy was just trying to rub out some gender fluid.
[ Demands coat, fetches accelerant, matches. ]
[ Looks out of window at feeble sleet. ]