It really is all about Ethics In Death Threats

That's a great point. I'm sure your sage judgment about people you've never met is very comforting to the women threatened by them.

Oh gosh, silly me

A near spit-take.

so who should've been kept out? the cops or the black people?

See, I'm starting to get convinced that even with cameras, the problem officers are just going to keep doing shit with impunity, because they know they won't receive any sort of punishment or consequence.

Looks like a rabid carpet.

You will be doing the Lord's work! I have a professor who regularly uses apostrophes for plurals, and every time I go to that class I have to force myself to recognize that she is a lovely, knowledgeable person who has a lot to teach me (which she is!) and not someone who was raised by wolves and is probably wrong…

Cannot. Breathe. Dying. Halp.

Gawd, this. A million times this! Do these people honestly believe that there are would-be rapists walking around thinking, "I'd love to sexually assault someone, but I'm not allowed to go in that bathroom!" Because, as we all know, rapists are generally rule followers. *headfuckingdesk*

The presumably cisgender boys who assaulted me in a bathroom at my high school had no problem just walking the fuck right in. Banning trans women from using women's bathrooms doesn't protect me from rapists; it just fucks over a particular subset of women. (And, in case I need to spell that out, that's bullshit.)

EXACTLY!!!! Ugh, its like my biggest pet peeve about transphobes. THE EXCUSES YOU MAKE FOR YOU BIGOTRY MAKE LITERALLY NO SENSE.

Exactly. I have to think that the sets "heterosexual men who're eager to perpetuate sexual violence against women" and "heterosexual men who are willing to try to convincingly dress as a woman in public" have a vanishingly small Venn diagram overlap. This is only a real threat in Lifetime Movieland.

Don't you know, Cate, there's a gender presentation force field around women's bathrooms. If you don't adhere to the outward presentation traditionally associated with the conceptualisation of woman, you will be rebuffed. Like, duh, just everyone knows that the field repels butch lesbians, trans men, and cis men who…

"or the related but only slightly less odious assertion that men will pretend to be trans women just to get into women's restrooms."

BOOM.

Ethan has awesome hair, is the most chivalrous man I've ever met, is brilliant, well-educated, ambitious, and makes me laugh.

The woman is my goddamn idol. I mean, I still don't want to be married, but in principle I love her.

Jesus christ. I tried to think of an organ that no one would even consider.

Less accurate.