For Buoyancy, Perhaps
Lifted from the comments, a tale of self-satisfied inclusiveness from Edmonton, Alberta:
The mother and her 14-year-old daughter had visited the Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre for an afternoon in the pool. However, their plans were derailed by an encounter with the incongruous:
For the innocent and unworldly, that’s fake rubber boobs. Generally of ample proportions, as worn by drag queens. And a penis sling, obviously. I’ll let you Google that one.
The mother promptly backed away from the scene of the psychodrama:
A not unreasonable response. At least until about five minutes ago.
You see, when you’re about to get undressed in a women’s changing room and you realise you’re being watched by a balding pervert in an overtly sexual micro-thong, and with fake rubber knockers attached to his person, this is just part and parcel of being sensitive and inclusive. Apparently, we must learn to embrace modernity and its many sophistications. Especially the ladies.
A female member of staff joined the discussion, which the mother recorded. Sisterhood, however, was not forthcoming:
In response, the staff member explains that “It is the city of Edmonton’s policy that you can use whatever changing room you are most comfortable using.” She goes on to defend the man’s attire, saying, “They can wear whatever they are comfortable wearing.”
Again, penis sling, rubber boobs. Lest we forget.
A subsequent exchange with an officer of the Edmonton Police Service proved equally frustrating, and the mother was told that she was free to “stop using the pool.” Because retreating from intrusion and perversity, ceding space to it, is very in right now.
However, a report was filed:
It was a person’s penis, you see. In the ladies’ changing room.
That.
It rarely is, and they are usually even worse than the men.
It’s perhaps worth adding that the leisure centre in question is “right next to a grade 7-12 school and is frequented by young students for swims.” So, schoolgirls may find themselves sharing a changing room with a creepy middle-aged man who spends a lot of time at the centre, including in the ladies’ sauna.
While wearing fake rubber boobs.
As a society we are so far off course.
See also this farcical episode. In which ostentatiously progressive ladies played a decisive role. By screwing over schoolgirls, the daughters of their friends and neighbours, to show how caring and compassionate they are. And how their views are the fashionable ones. The ones to be seen having.
If there’s one thing the last month or so has amply demonstrated, it’s that Canada is too far gone to be saved. Trump’s counter-revolution is working because the majority of Americans agree with him. A plurality – possibly a majority – of Canadians agree with this insanity. They’ll do whatever the government or the TV[1] tells them without thinking.
There’s no saving this country. The sane people are fleeing in droves. What’s left is going to be Cold Venezuela.
[1] Which in Canada are the same thing
Well, you’d think that “Let’s not enable obvious perverts to ogle adolescent girls in the women’s changing rooms” would be an uncontroversial position. Something not obviously open to debate.
Yet here we are.
Smell that progress.
There’s the matter of social motives behind all this. It’s not about reasonable accommodation of transgenders, but about the intimidation and humiliation of the women who are the victims here. It’s about putting “normal” people in their place. (Similar social motive in: COVID over-reach.)
And, as usual, the police are in on it. Whether through shared motives (leadership) or moral cowardice (constables). It’s the UK Rotherham, etc., situation writ small.
Not all that surprising, though, or even that novel — remember the Canadian chap who sued one or more women-run businesses (I think they did Brazilians, or landing strips or whatever the trendy downstairs topiary activity of the day happened to be) and refused to undertake his pruning job because he was not female. (I seem to remember the insanity was given consideration here, in fact.) And wasn’t the metal shop teacher, the one with the double M rubber mammaries, Canadian too? Is it something in the snow, do you think?
As I have said before, the TQ part of the LGBTQ has misogyny as its foundation.
Meanwhile, in the state of Maine (which, coincidentally, abuts Canada) . . .
Horror movie title.
Not entirely unrelated.
There’s your problem.
And those girls will likely not have an adult of any kind who cares about them present at the time. So I’m guessing it very well may have happened at that location many times and thus is somewhat normalized there.
The new term is Snowmexican. Which is kinda unfair to Mexicans. Similarly Venezuela. AFAIK, those countries are stupid but not this stupid.
One of the explanations for Florida Man was the heat. They would be attributing it to climate change but that would make it abnormal. Can’t say that.
On the flip side, think of what this poor chap had to go through – 10 burly men.
Not unrelated, if there is one thing 3rd grade boys need, it is (rereads yet again) tampons.
Indeed, the AP style book states the correct term is frostbacks.
Who, according to our trembling princess, did nothing and said nothing. Nothing whatsoever. They merely sat there eating their lunches, while being bearded and burly. Oh, unforgiving world.
Or, self-dramatising mentally ill man is self-dramatising mentally ill man.
Canuckleheads.
Like virtually the entire left and the “queer community”, she wants thought control:
There is no living in peace with such people. Accommodation is impossible. So don’t try.
Peaceful means are being exhausted.
I love being pedantic, so I’ll say that one reason why Florida Man has become meme-worthy is that (I think, if I remember right, er, IIRR) police news is more readily available on line than in other states.
You want to grab these people by the shoulders and scream WHAT DO YOU THINK A MALE PREDATOR LOOKS LIKE??
But I don’t think that would register anymore. Mustn’t judge. Mustn’t make a fuss. Mustn’t be unkind.
I really don’t understand this parallel universe they live in.
I suppose that’s one of the pitfalls of a worldview, a psychology, geared to the appearance of niceness, to some parties at least – of endless accommodation of the marginal. Social structures depend on boundaries, on the option to say no.
As a somewhat Florida man and somewhat pedantic, I agree. Though generally/broadly speaking, warmer climates attract, or at least enable, such people to exist. Especially being active the full 12 months of the year. There’s a potential to tie this into cold blooded creatures but I’m likely pushing it.
I want to grab virtually every one that I know by the shoulders, make them see this stuff, and scream WTF DID/DO YOU THINK THIS CRAPS IS HEADED? It’s all so bloody stupid that I’m not entirely convinced that it’s not all imaginary and I’m schizophrenic. Either I am or everyone else is.
In the sense that our dollar will likely end up in peso territory this year, I concur.
I’ve said before that there are only two paths forward for Canada: Chile or Venezuela, and there’s no Canadian Pinochet.
Venezuela elected socialist strongman Hugo Chavez, who proceeded to destroy the country’s economy; and after his death elected Nicolas Maduro, who ended up being somehow worse. Allegations of election irregularity aside, both overwhelmingly enjoyed the support of the people. Who apparently decided that the problem with the economy was that they weren’t socialisming hard enough.
And now “they are eating the zoo animals” is a meme.
Oh, don’t limit it to Canada. Never forget those caring and compassionate folk who
rioteddemonstrated outside of Planet Fitness in favour of locker room pervs.It’s a lot safer to tell off mothers & teenage daughters than to, you know, pursue criminals.
Given what happens when you push back, the “niceness” is often a self-protective mechanism. Telling a hulking AGP to get out of the ladies’ is like telling a boom-boxer on the subway to turn it down — your likelihood of being assaulted is pretty high.
And in the case of the AGP, the whole mechanism of the state and half of society comes down on you if you so much as look at them cross-eyed.
I understand people not wanting to run afoul of social opinion. I don’t understand what captured officialdom to such a degree that they defend the indefensible.
It’s a cordyceps fungus. I don’t know how to fumigate it.
Exactly. See also Germany. Not so much in regard to socialism, as bad as it is over there, but the open borders thing. In spite of conservatives wanting to see things otherwise, over 75% of that country is still too afraid to stand up for itself.
More ‘niceness’ on display.
‘Pity about the children but we mustn’t be seen to be censorious about the very apologetic & hurt mentally ill.’
I don’t. Not in a society that pretends to be all stunning and brave. Because Anne Frank and shit.
Anne Frank and Shit. Band name. Beat you to it.
Is the funding for these types mysteriously drying up for some reason?
Elsewhere in Canada.
Magaera:
ahahahaha love the wording.