"I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today'"
Said the chubby man who would be President. That's not a pretty picture and not a picture I enjoy holding in my mind, but the point is that the rabble rousing that involves scenarios of some guy dressed as a woman raping your daughter in the Lady's Room is fiction. If some dude wanted to dress up and explore the fabulous world of toilets, there would be no law likely to stop him, no DNA test or passport control at the door. Indecent exposure laws, where they apply, are still in place.
Transgendered people have been using washrooms of choice for decades and so far, I don't know of a problem, nor (and I've asked) do women normally walk around naked in public toilets. Sorry, Mike, the athlete formerly known as Bruce Jenner isn't going to molest your wife or your darling daughter nor will anything be exposed outside of a toilet stall. You'll never know.
Frankly, remembering the alarming record of Republican politicians who rant about sex and gender and protecting the world from homosexuality being caught doing naughty things to boys in cloakrooms or sitting with "wide stances" in airport mens' rooms and sleazy motels, I'd rather not share a bathroom with Mike at all. Methinks the fat man doth protest too much.
Mick (The Huckster) Huckabee has went from a harmless homey persona to frightenly dangerous demagogue.
ReplyDeleteSomebody should tell Mike that actual thinking people really do know better.
The hysterics are predicting now that SCOTUS has given gays the right to marry, that means people will demand the right to marry their brother or sister, their horse, or demand the right to marry two or more men or women. Equal rights is a gateway privilege to incest, beastiality, polygamy and polyandry.
ReplyDeleteHuckabee should tend to his family and try to discover why one of his offspring thought torturing an animal was not reprehensible:
From Newsweek 2007
"As Mike Huckabee gains in the polls, the former Arkansas governor is finding that his record in office is getting more scrutiny. One issue likely to get attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. It also prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by a national animal-rights group—to write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed. But John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request."
That would scare me, as a parent, far more than a transgender doing his or her business in a public bathroom stall.
The bathroom thing is a red herring and I can't count all the horrible things done throughout history in the name of protecting the children. It's cheap rhetoric: arguing from the consequences and fictitious consequences at that. Great Britain I believe actually allows transgenders to get new birth certificates and credentials and as you'd expect there are no problems.
DeleteThis is one of the reasons these idiots try to steer the conversation away from real world examples and into apocalyptic fantasy. I won't vote for anyone who insults what intelligence I have in this manner.
I didn't know this; and I'm not sure the relevancy to Mike. His son 17 years ago was guilty of animal cruelty in the extreme. Good folks sometimes have bad offspring, it happens. But I don't see the relevancy. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteMike is going nowhere as the only folks that would go solidly for him would be the fundies.
He will be merely a blip.
Big blip! But he gets air time because he says idiotic things and air time is good. It's a shame how that works.
ReplyDeleteWhich says as much (or more) about a certain segment of the U.S. population as it does about Mike.
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