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Old 10-23-2018, 03:14 PM   #1
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Don't care what bathroom they use either.
Good for you. What about a 9 year-old girl who does care? Why don't her concerns, matter to liberals?
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Old 10-23-2018, 03:38 PM   #2
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Good for you. What about a 9 year-old girl who does care? Why don't her concerns, matter to liberals?
Well if your 9 year old girl is going into any public rest room without a parent in tow, then I’d question their right to even bitch.
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Old 10-23-2018, 06:55 PM   #3
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Well if your 9 year old girl is going into any public rest room without a parent in tow, then I’d question their right to even bitch.
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Would you take a 9 year old little girl into a public restroom?
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Would you take a 9 year old little girl into a public restroom?
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Had three boys and I never allowed them into a public rest room at that age without me.
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Old 10-23-2018, 09:21 PM   #5
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Had three boys and I never allowed them into a public rest room at that age without me.
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when your boys were 9, they were never with their mom and had to use a public restroom? not ever? my wife takes
my three boys all kinds of places when i’m at work, and she no longer takes them into the ladies room with her, that stopped at about age 4-5. the reason why she stopped taking them
into the ladies room, is that to many people, it’s normal to share a restroom with people who share your genetalia, especially if you’re a female.
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That doesn’t answer my question.
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I have baby-sat my nieces a zillion times, and I can't tell you how many times, when they were around 9 years old, I walked them to the entrance of a public women's room and waited. It never occurred to me that I'm narrow-minded for not being comfortable with a grown man walking in there with my nieces. It never occurred to be that if Willie Horton said "I'm a woman", that courtesy suggests that I hold the door open for him/her so he could follow my nieces in there.

In a perfect world, all public restrooms would be single toilet and gender neutral. But they weren't built that way originally (because the people who built them never fathomed we'd go this far over the edge), and we can't retroactively modify all of them to make it so.

So someone is going to have to sacrifice personal comfort for the comfort of others. I don't especially like the idea of asking little girls to make the sacrifice so that adult males can go into the ladies room. I don't want to see those people harassed in the mens room either, but I'm of the opinion that adults make sacrifices for children, not the other way around.
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I have baby-sat my nieces a zillion times, and I can't tell you how many times, when they were around 9 years old, I walked them to the entrance of a public women's room and waited. It never occurred to me that I'm narrow-minded for not being comfortable with a grown man walking in there with my nieces. It never occurred to be that if Willie Horton said "I'm a woman", that courtesy suggests that I hold the door open for him/her so he could follow my nieces in there.

In a perfect world, all public restrooms would be single toilet and gender neutral. But they weren't built that way originally (because the people who built them never fathomed we'd go this far over the edge), and we can't retroactively modify all of them to make it so.

So someone is going to have to sacrifice personal comfort for the comfort of others. I don't especially like the idea of asking little girls to make the sacrifice so that adult males can go into the ladies room. I don't want to see those people harassed in the mens room either, but I'm of the opinion that adults make sacrifices for children, not the other way around.
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Old 10-23-2018, 07:29 PM   #9
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Well if your 9 year old girl is going into any public rest room without a parent in tow, then I’d question their right to even bitch.
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when my wife has
my 3 boys and they need to go, after the age of 7 or 8, they went into their bathroom and my wife waited. she doesn’t go in there with them.
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