• Kruh Master@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    As much as I love this statistic, this is only based on reported cases, meaning only those who have been caught. It’s like quoting rape statistics when most of them aren’t reported.

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      4 days ago

      True, there are probably even more senators who are guilty of misconduct in bathrooms and the ratio is even further apart.

      • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        Grindr stats go up whenever there’s a fascist (ie. Republican) national convention.

        They loooove to fuck and mistreat queers, be they gay, trans, intersex or whatever. But give equal rights, ho!

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      3 days ago

      Given how many people there are salivating at the chance to report a trans women using a bathroom, I doubt the reporting bias is in favor of senators.

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          3 days ago

          Such a Freudian slip to understand penis instead of pants! (And how much do these people talk in the bathroom? Like, let me be!)

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          3 days ago

          Basic knowledge of the English language and what people do when there aren’t any paper towels would also make any normal person who misheard that very quickly conclude that pants was the word that was said, because it is insane to say you’re going to wipe your hands on your penis to dry them.

          Unfortunately transphobes are not only deeply abnormal, they’re also given newspaper columns instead of therapy.

          I remember this going down in real time when the trans woman in question found the article and realized it was about her. Like, I know, Daily Fail, but Christ.

        • kibiz0r@midwest.social
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          3 days ago

          Supposing that she did say “I’m gonna wipe my hands dry on my penis” in order to provide a menacing reminder of the existence of her genitalia… How effective of a threat is that, really?

          Like, try imagining someone genuinely trying to dry their hands using their dick. Idk about you, but my mental word cloud for that concept reads something like “weak”, “pathetic”, “lost”, “incompetent”. Not a very threatening concept.